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Get Started with Military History Resources

This guide will help you learn how to search the major databases for finding resources in military history.

About America: History and Life Full Text

America: History and Life Full Text is a database that offers historical scholarly journals, magazines, books and more covering the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Conducting a Search

The screenshot examples below search for peer-reviewed articles about Revolutionary War Letters.

  • I used quotes to search for words together as a phrase (i.e. "revolutionary war"), and used another field to break up my keywords into concepts.
  • I clicked the blue search button to find articles.

 

Keyword search in America: History and Life with Full Text for "revolutionary war" and letters. The search button is highlighted

Reviewing Search Results

This search found 171 articles.

  • Select Peer Reviewed from the options below the search bar to show just scholarly journal articles in your results.
  • Results are sorted by relevance with the most relevant articles appearing at the top of the list. You can change this using the sort drop-down.
  • Options to access the full text will appear as "Access now" or as "Access Options". If the full text is not available in the database, the access option available will appear as "Check for full text", which you can use to find the item in another database or request it through interlibrary loan. 

Search results page in America: History and Life with Full Text. The number of results, peer reviewed filter button, sort dropdown, and access options button are highlighted.

 

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