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The South: Culture and History

This library guide is designed for researchers studying any topics related to the South's culture and history.

Journal Articles

You can start a journal article search with the Journal of Asian American Studies

These databases can also help:

  • Academic Search Premier -Very useful for starting an article search.  Contains articles from thousands of magazines, journals, and newspapers. 
  • America: History and Life-the main database for articles about American history and culture.
  • Google Scholar--University of Alabama's portal for Google Scholar.  Google Scholar is a special part of Google that only finds scholarly articles.  As a UA student, you can access the texts of many of these articles by clicking the links that say "Full-Text @ UAlabama".
  • JSTOR-contains thousands of articles from key journals in history, political science, sociology, women's studies, and African-American studies.
  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center--offers articles that you help you argue a point of view, like for or against the death penalty.