Doing Research in Sociology in the Princeton University Library
 History Sources 


American History and Life  - AHAL (U.S. and Canada) and  Historical Abstracts - HA (non-U.S. or Canada), subscription databases.
These index scholarly articles dealing with history and culture.  Coverage is for articles published from 1964 to date for AHAL and 1954 to date for HA.  By clicking on CHOOSE DATABASE on the search screen for either database, the other can be chosen and the search re-run. Also, both may be searched together, when that would be useful..

Recent search examples:

  • Gender Bias in ALL FIELDS produced 48 records in AHAL; 28 in HA
  • Gender Bias in ABSTRACT produced 39 records in AHAL; 24 in HA
  • Culture Technology produced 5 records in both AHAL and HA - (but not the same records.)
  • Culture AND Technology in ABSTRACT found 452 records in AHAL; 551 records in HA
  • Charter school in ABSTRACT produced 39 records in AHAL; 1 records in HA (automatically finds other endings such as schools, schooling, and so on.)
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