LibGuides: American Studies Resources: Articles

Databases for American Studies

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to an archive of scholarly journals in all disciplines.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts and full text articles covering a wide range of disciplines. Articles come from scholarly and popular periodicals
Project MUSE (Basic Undergraduate Edition) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text and citations to articles in the humanities and social sciences. During COVID-19, they are also offering a number of ebooks by university presses; simply search for relevant keywords and limit the results to "books".
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to articles, books, working papers, and more on English and other languages, linguistics, literature, and folklore

1926→
ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled) This link opens in a new window
Provides art images and descriptive information

For information on downloading ARTstor images, see: https://support.artstor.org/?article-category=07-sharing
Snowden Super Search This link opens in a new window
An electronic resource that includes most of the online databases offered by Snowden Library including the online catalog
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Identifies books, journals and other materials owned by libraries around the world
Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to articles on all subjects in popular and general magazines

1890-1982

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides mostly full text news, law, business, and health articles
New York Times (Current) This link opens in a new window
News from The New York Times newspaper. Requires personal registration (first-time users should visit https://nytimesineducation.com/access-nyt/ to register; after one year patrons will need to renew the pass at https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass. Click on "Already have an account? Log in here" and follow the directions). Problems? Contact Taryn Bartholomew.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable full text with page and article images to the Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876)
African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable full text with page and article images to the African American Newspapers collection

1827-1998
New York Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable full text with page and article images

1851 to 3 years ago
Philadelphia Inquirer This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable full text articles of this Philadelphia newspaper from 1860-2001.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable full text articles from this Pittsburgh newspaper from 1786-1985