Learn how to use Historical Abstracts and America: History & Life databases and their features.
JSTOR is a great multi-disciplinary database, however, its name stands for Journal Storage, and thus it is not the best place for the most up-to-date current scholarship.
Subject: History
Content/Description: Covers the world's scholarly literature by providing journal articles and book excerpts on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada as far back as 1910.
Both of the main History Databases work the same. However, they contain different areas of focus.
For a global focus, see Historical Abstracts
For North American intersections, check out America: History and Life
Here is a reminder of the many ways that you can control and limit your searches (in both History Databases!!!) in order to get the best results. Open the images in a new tab to zoom in!
As most of your have figured out by now, the library subscribes to a large number of databases, over 150 to be exact. The History page on the library databases page is a good place to start familiarizing yourself to the sources that will be more helpful to you as a history major.
Much of your work will also be interdisciplinary, so try browsing for databases in other relevant subject areas in the Databases by Academic Department section.
Jstor is an excellent full text archive of humanities, social science and business journals and includes a large number of history journals.