Moody Library is pleased to offer remote access to the library's many databases. The databases are available to currently-enrolled HCU students, faculty, and staff. An HCU network User ID and password is required for proper authentication.
Below are some important journals for the study of American history. HCU subscribes to many other history journals, but these are the most important. Almost all of these journals are available back to the first issues on JSTOR, and most have current journals online in other sources.
Most of the following databases index and in many cases provide full-text access to the peer-reviewed journal literature, i.e. secondary literature, of history.
Note: A digital archives such as JSTOR a can be considered a primary-source database depending upon the researcher's purpose.
Many of the websites listed below contain primary source documents for historical research. All of these sites are freely accessible to users of the Internet.