African History
Finding Books in Worldcat
You can locate books in Macalester's collections and beyond using Worldcat Discovery. Use the filters on the left-hand side of your search results in Worldcat to limit your search results to print books or ebooks specifically.
Pro-tip: Try using the subject headings found in Worldcat to expand your search results and find related sources.
Searching for Articles
A list of databases useful for research in African History:
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes hundreds of history journals and books, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period.
Pro-tip: Historical Abstracts allows you to search by historical period, which is a powerful way to improve your search results.
- Peace Research Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCovers areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and others. Includes some full-text.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowLarge collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowAccess to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowAuthoritative guides to current scholarship in African Studies.
- Index Islamicus This link opens in a new windowIndexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covers Muslim life including history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. Includes journals, conference proceedings, monographs and book reviews. Journals and books indexed o the article and chapter level.
Journals published in Africa:
- AfricaBib This link opens in a new window
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A collection of Africana social science titles consisting of 2 bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature.
- African Journals Online (AJOL) This link opens in a new windowThe world’s largest online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
