LibGuides: HST 317: Why War: A Historical Perspective: Finding Secondary Sources

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America: History and Life with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
America: History & Life with Full Text is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,800 journals, full-text for 200 journals, and 80 ebooks this database is the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,500 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1863, 380 full-text journals, and 140 full-text ebooks. For Canadian and United States history, use the America: History and Life database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archival collection of journal articles that includes titles in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. In most cases the archives end 2 to 5 years before the current issue of the journal. OSU Libraries subscribes to all JSTOR Archive Collections, JSTOR Primary Sources Collections, and JSTOR Global Plants.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A full text database for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.

War and Terrorism

War and Terrorism (Gale OneFile)
This definitive, full-text collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science provides valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale

Current News

America's News (Newsbank)
This database includes over 4,000 local, regional and national news sources including the Oregonian. Newspaper coverage spans from the 1980s to current day.
America's News Magazines (Newsbank)
This database provides full-text articles from leading magazines and cover an analysis of current events in news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. Magazine coverage spans from the 1980s to current day.
Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for more than 40 U.S. (including the Washington Post) and international newspapers back to 1984. This collection offers full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
New York Times
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Provides access to domestic and international news, educational videos, podcasts, blogs, interactive multimedia, and much more. Unlimited access provided for content newer than 1980 and older than 1923. (Access to content within the date range 1923-1980 is limited to 5 articles per day.)
Oregonian (Newsbank Historical and Current Collection)
Research Portland history through the Oregonian Collection with coverage from 1861 through current. Study trends, issues, events, advertisements, companies and more through historical and current full newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Oregon Index
The Oregon Index is a selective index to Oregon newspapers, and to Oregon items in selected other publications. The database does not contain full-text information.

Coverage:
Coos Bay World, Jan 1996 - May 1996
Corvallis Gazette Times, 1995 - Nov 15, 1999
Daily Astorian 1998-1990
Eugene Register-Guard, Jan1988 -
Klamath Falls Herald & News, Jan - May 1996
LaGrande Observer, 1995 -
Lake Oswego Review, 1996 -
Portland Oregonian, Jan 1985-Dec 1992
Salem Statesman Journal, Jan 1987 - Sept 2002
Tigard Times, 1996 -
West Linn Tidings, Aug 13, 1998 -
Willamette Week, 1974 -
Wilsonville Spokesman, 1995 - (incomplete coverage)
Oregon News Sources (Newsbank)
Access to selected local Oregon newspapers, college newspapers and blogs.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Newspapers)
Full-text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984.

Some non-database news sources that you can access include:

Los Angeles Times
The online version of the Los Angeles Times. Some content might be paywalled for subscribers.
OregonLive
The online version of The Oregonian. Some content may only be accessible to subscribers.

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