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AP World History - Ms. MacEnulty: Recommended Databases

Search strategies

For better results try using these search strategies when necessary: 

Wildcard:  The query behavi?r finds the behavior or behaviour.
Truncation:  The query organiz*= organization, organize, organizational
Put a phrase in “quotes”. For example, “Qing Dynasty”.

Use Boolean Operators to narrow or expand a search, and exclude irrelevant results.
For example: media AND violence, teens OR adolescents, psychology NOT clinical

"French Revolution" AND Women

Examples of keywords phrases:

"Haitian Revolution" OR "Post-revolutionary Haiti"
"Slave labor and sugar production"
"Spanish colonial cities"
"Revolutionary heroines"

Searching for proper names: 

"Toussaint Louverture"
"Peter the Great"

Databases at Bronx Science and NYPL ( A New York Public Library card is required for NYPL databases.)

Examples of scholarly journals articles: 

Malfavon, Alan. , 2023. "LOYALTY, SUBJECTHOOD, AND VIOLENCE: VERACRUZ'S AFRO-DESCENDANTS IN THE EARLY MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1812–1813," The Latin Americanist 67 (4): 357-398,V. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/loyalty-subjecthood-violence-veracruzs-afro/docview/2899300035/se-2.

Menzin, Marion. , 2023. "The Sugar Revolution in New England: Barbados, Massachusetts Bay, and the Atlantic Sugar Economy, 1600–1700," Business History Review 97 (4): 699-750. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680523000867. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/sugar-revolution-new-england-barbados/docview/2972461754/se-2.

Examples of scholarly journal articles:

Gaffield, Julia. "Complexities of imagining Haiti: a study of national constitutions, 1801-1807." Journal of Social History 41, no. 1 (2007): 81+. Gale OneFile: World History (accessed September 9, 2025). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A171411245/PPWH?u=nysl_me_nyc72_bh&sid=bookmark-PPWH&xid=512f7052.

"From Khubilai Khan to Sun Yat-sen." Guanxi: The China Letter 2, no. 6 (2007): 1+. Gale OneFile: World History (accessed September 9, 2025). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A211068293/PPWH?u=nysl_me_nyc72_bh&sid=bookmark-PPWH&xid=5be6a0e6.

Examples of scholarly journal articles: 

Thakur, Kundan Kumar. “BRITISH COLONIAL EXPLOITATION OF INDIA AND GLOBALIZATION.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 74 (2013): 405–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44158840.
 

McIlvanney, Siobhán. “Women’s Roles, Rights and Representations in France, 1758–1848.” In Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1758–1848, 21–56. Liverpool University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqr1bqv.5.

Examples of a primary sources:

A Demonstration of the necessity and advantages of a free trade to the East Indies; and of a termination to the present monopoly of the East-India Company. London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1807. The Making of the Modern World (accessed September 9, 2025). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/U0102983524/MOME?u=cuny_k12&sid=bookmark-MOME&xid=ee8df2f5&pg=30.

Cleland, William. Some observations, shewing the danger of losing the trade of the sugar colonies. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Parliament. By a planter. London: n.p., 1714. Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (accessed September 9, 2025). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/U0100500739/SAS?u=cuny_k12&sid=bookmark-SAS&xid=48d0349a&pg=3.

Examples of scholarly journal articles:

Reeder, Tyson. "Liberty with the Sword: Jamaican Maroons, Haitian Revolutionaries, and American Liberty." Journal of the Early Republic 37, no. 1 (2017): 81-115. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jer.2017.0002.

Martin, Alexander M. "The Invention of “Russianness” in the Late 18th-Early 19th Century." Ab Imperio 2003, no. 3 (2003): 119-134. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/imp.2003.0133.

Examples of journal and magazine articles:

Hoffmann, Roald. "Mme. Lavoisier. (Marginalia I)." American Scientist 90, no. 1 (2002): 22+. Gale In Context: Biography (accessed September 10, 2025). https://link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/A81528411/BIC?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=5baeeca2.

Norton, Graham Gendall. "Toussaint Louverture." History Today, April 2003, 6+. Gale In Context: Biography (accessed September 10, 2025). https://link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/A99746701/BIC?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=e81bd146.