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About
America: History & Life
One of many EBSCOhost databases, this one focuses on American History. Here you will find scholarly literature including journals, books, and dissertations on US and Canadian history going back to 1954.
Need help? Contact the History Liaison Librarian!
100 Main Library
Iowa City, IA 52242
Search Tips & Tricks
America: History & Life is an EBSCOhost database, so check out some of the Academic Search Elite Search Tips - they will apply here too!
Want to search for American and world history at the same time? Select multiple databases to search! Directly above the search box, you will notice a blue "Choose Databases" option.
Click that, and a list of all the available EBSCOhost databases will pop up. Scroll through until you find "Historical Abstracts," a good database for world history topics, or any other database you would like to search. You can select as many databases as you want! Do note, however, that this may increase the time it takes for your search to pull up results.