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American History

Scholarly Article Databases

In addition to using general research databases, you may find these more focused databases helpful for your class research:

Historical Document Databases

Types of Articles

It is important to keep in mind that what we call "articles" in every day life may or may not be same type of articles that we use in academic research.
A comparison of academic versus journalistic articles.

 Academic, or  Scholarly 

Written by experts and usually published by scholarly organizations. 

Articles summarizing topics can be found in  encyclopedias. 

 Scholarly journal articles, which are peer-reviewed by groups of experts before they are published.

 Popular, or  Journalistic

Written and published in popular and easily-accessible sources by companies or individuals. 

 Newspapers 
 Magazines