Your instructor said that you cannot use the Internet to find sources for your paper. Instead, you have to use "scholarly journals" and other academic resources from the library. So what does that mean?
Scholarly journals are published by universities, societies, or associations of specialized fields. Articles are written by scholars in that field who present the results of original research and experimentation or provide technical or professional information. They go through a peer-review evaluation process before being published. Peer-reviewed articles are reviewed by other scholars in the same field who provide feedback about the article's quality, accuracy, relevance to scholarship in the field, validity of research methodology and procedures, and more.
Ready to start searching for scholarly journal articles? You will find them in our EBSCO and JSTOR databases. Connect to those through the Popular Databases link on the library homepage.
Recommended Article Databases for History
JSTOR - A scholarly journal database for the Humanities and Social Sciences
America History and Life with Full Text - Includes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
History Reference Source - Provides full text of leading history periodicals, as well as historical documents, biographies of historical figures, and historical photos and maps.
U.S. History (Gale in Context) - Includes articles and primary source documents on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history.