This database provides access to news articles from the present back to 1980, both domestic and international. Under the U.S. News heading, you can find many regional newspapers not otherwise available. This source indexes articles, books and dissertations about the history of the United States and Canada published throughout the world. It is a subject index which provides citations and abstracts for the works indexed. Both the print and online versions index scholarly historical research published between 1964 and the present.
Access points are author, title, and subject.
Subjects covered include literature, social science and history. The publications indexed are a mix of scholarly journals and general interest magazines along with several prominent American newspapers. It covers articles published back to 1980. Periodicals Contents Index Library Gateway PCI provides indexing to nearly 2400 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, published from 1770 to 1990. The index is not comprehensive, but represents a beginning in online access to many of the Library's 19th and early 20th century journals.