Secondary Sources
America: History and Life (1955- ) covers North America. Includes books, book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews.
Race Relations Abstracts (1903- (largely 1975- )) searches for journal articles related to race. Many of the records have links to full text.
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (1900- present; full text 1998-present) indexes over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the US, Africa and the Caribbean. (Harvard login)
Web of Science Citation Indexes allow citation searching, that is, starting with an article of interest and finding more recent articles that have cited it. History is included 1956- . More information.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) indexes over 5500 English and Western European language journals from their inceptions to 1995. Limit to historical journals by adjusting Journal Subject(s) menu to History (General) or History (The Americas), although this will exclude historical articles in non-history journals. A subset of the journals in PIO are full text searchable PAO Historical Studies Collection