America: History and Life Abstracts of 400,000+ history articles from ABC-CLIO; 1950-present; campus subscription required (check with Librarian) recommended some of the journals are available online in JSTOR or Project MUSE
Ingenta search free (or purchase) scholarly articles from all journals, last decade or so recommended
Civil War History best scholarly resource; recent issues online via Project Muse and Infotrac; consult librarian
Journal of Military History many outstanding articles & reviews; online via JSTOR; consult librarian
JSTOR complete text online of all articles; also includes major journals in political science, economics, demography; free access if your school subscribes. recommendedList of JSTOR schools
American Historical Review 1895-1999 recent issues online at History Cooperative;
Journal of American History 1964-1999; recent issues online at History Cooperative;
Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1914-1964;
Journal of Economic History 1941-1999;
Journal of Military History 1989-1999; [continuation of Military Affairs 1937-1988;]
Journal of Modern History 1929-1999;
Journal of Southern History 1935-1997;
Speculum 1926-1997 [Medieval];
William and Mary Quarterly 1892-2000 [US to 1820];
also
American Political Science Review 1906-1999;
International Organization 1947-1997;
International Security 1976-99;
Journal of Politics 1939-1999;
Political Science Quarterly 1886-1998
Journal of Asian Studies 1956-1999;
Far Eastern Quarterly 1941-1956;
Pacific Affairs 1928-1997;
For these journals, recent years are online in project Muse see Librarian; (they can be browsed but not searched)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine;
Civil War History;
French Historical Studies; Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History;
Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Journal of Policy History; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences; Journal of World History;
Reviews in American History [excellent reviews of new books]; Social Science History;
Parametersthe US Army's senior professional journal, full text
Simon Coupland , "The Vikings on the Continent in Myth and History"
scholarly article in the journal History Volume: 88 Number: 2 Page: 186 -- 203 online via Blackwell [subscription]. Shows the Vikings were ineed nasty, but so were the Franks
The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World major scholarly essays edited by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (2001)
Third Crusade links
Brand, Charles M. "The Byzantines and Saladin, 1185-1192: Opponents of the Third Crusade." Speculum 37 (1962): 167-81. [Available online via JSTOR]
"The Military Revolution" -- historians have vigorously debated whether or not the great changes in warfare at this time constituted a "revolution" or just a big evolution.
Abraham Lincoln, a History (10 vols, 1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay; Nicolay and Hay were senior aides to Lincoln; This is the longest and most detailed scholarly history of the war, noted for completeness, clarity, and psycholoical and political insight into the men and challenges Lincoln faced; portions appeared in Century magazine, as listed below. recommended
Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
The most comprehensive single online source for Official Records, and other firsthand accounts of practically every major Civil War battle. Also includees biographies and much else. recommended
"Strength against weakness: Ottoman military effectiveness at Gallipoli, 1915" by Edward J. Erickson, Journal of Military History 981-1012 65, no. 4 (Oct 2001): p. 981-1012 online via FirstSearch
"Strength against weakness: Ottoman military effectiveness at Gallipoli, 1915" by Edward J. Erickson, Journal of Military History 981-1012 65, no. 4 (Oct 2001): p. 981-1012 online via FirstSearch
"The Battles of the Winter War"
30 November 1939 - 13 March 1940, Finland vs USSR [Finland fought two wars against USSR; this is the first one; note that Germany at the time was allied with USSR]
"The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II," major scholarly article by S. P. MacKenzie, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 66, No. 3. (Sep., 1994), pp. 487-520. There were 35 million POWs in all; 5 million died.
Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941-1942 (1953) outstanding official US Army history by Maurice Matloff and Edwin Snell (1990 edition). Recommended for thorough coverage of American war planning;
one of the best in "Green Series" from the Army Official History;
Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943 superb official US Army history by Richard M. Leighton and Robert W. Coakley; full text is not yet online one of the best in "Green Series" from the Army Official History; notes on vol 2
Marshall Papers US chief of staff George Marshall papers, 1939-41
Marshall Papers US chief of staff George Marshall papers, 1945-46
US War Plans
original war planning documents for FDR, 1939-43; called the "Safe Files", from FDR Library recommended
Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1941-1942 (1953) outstanding official US Army history by Maurice Matloff and Edwin Snell (1990 edition). Recommended for thorough coverage of American war planning; one of the best in "Green Series" from the Army Official History;
"'It made a lot of sense to kill skilled workers': The firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945"
by Thomas R. Searle, Journal of Military History 103-134 v 66 #1 (Jan 2002): pp. 103-134
online via FirstSearch; major scholarly study
Bernstein, Barton J. "The Alarming Japanese Buildup on Southern Kyushu, Growing U.S. Fears, and Counterfactual Analysis: Would the Planned November 1945 Invasion of Southern Kyushu Have Occured?". Pacific Historical Review vol 68, no.4 (November 1999): 561-609. (online via Infotrac)
"Norms, Heresthetics, and the End of the Cold War" scholarly evaluation of debate on why the Cold War ended as it did, by Matthew Evangelista Journal of Cold War Studies 3.1 (2001) 5-35 online through Project Muse
"'An Inward Looking Time': The United States Army, 1973-1976" by Richard Lock-Pullan Journal of Military History 67.2 (2003) 483-511 in Project Muse. Argues that ending the draft, not Vietnam, shaped this period. Focuses on General William DePuy who promoted a trained, value-based, and doctrinal Army focused on the Soviet threat in Europe, & influenced by the the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.