is a database that indexes scholarly articles, and some books and book chapters, in the discipline of History (excluding the U.S. and Canada) starting in 1450.  A key feature of Historical Abstracts is a searching option where you can limit to the time period you are researching. Most databases only have search features for when the article was published.  Historical Abstracts is not a full text database.  It searches citations and abstracts. If Vassar doesn't subscribe to an article or own a book you find in Historical Abstracts, you can use our extensive InterLibrary Loan services through InterLibrary Loan.

Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, architecture and art history and other fields. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title, but usually ends several years before the current year.

Index to scholarly resources on language, literature, film, theater, and folklore

Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,700 periodicals.

Indexes scholarly journals in humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.