21H.931 Seminar in Historical Methods

Finding Book Reviews

REVIEWS OF HISTORY BOOKS

America: History & Life
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/america
For books about the United States and Canada, start with this index. It includes approximately 6000 citations of book and media reviews from over one hundred key journals in U.S. and Canadian history and related fields. On the search screen, type "book review" or "media review" in the "Document Type" field.

American Historical Review (JSTOR) 1895-1999
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American Historical Review (History Cooperative) 1999-present
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Includes scholarly articles and critical reviews of current publications in all fields of history.

H-Net Reviews
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/
An online scholarly review journal. The reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web site. Once posted to individual H-Net networks, reviews are posted to H-Review and archived on this site. You can browse through the volumes or use the search feature to assist in finding reviews.

Reviews in American History (JSTOR ), v. 1 (1973) - v. 22 (1994)
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Reviews in American History (Project Muse), v. 23 (1995) - present
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Each issue presents reviews of over thirty of the newest books in American history, as well as retrospective essays examining landmark works by major historians.

COMPREHENSIVE BOOK REVIEW SOURCES

Book Review Digest (1983-present)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/bookrev/
An index to book reviews in several hundred popular, general interest, and scholarly periodicals, this title also reproduces sections of many of the reviews indexed. The word length of the review is also given -- a handy way to identify the core scholarly reviews. The print version goes back to 1906 (Humanities Reference Z1035.A1.B724).

Book Review Index (1965-present)
Bimonthly with quarterly and annual cumulations. While indexing many of the same sources included in Book Review Digest, this title includes more reviews drawn from academic journals (Humanities Reference Z1035.A1.B7243).