If you need help, please contact Baharak Yousefi, Librarian for History, International Studies, Graduate Liberal Studies, Political Science at or byousefi@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian
Books
- The global pontificate of Pius XII : war and genocide, reconstruction and change, 1939-1958 /
- The speculative grammarian essential guide to linguistics /
- The queens of the Arabs : during the Neo-Assyrian period /
- The young victims of the Nazi regime : migration, the Holocaust, and postwar displacement /
- Armor and blood : the Battle of Kursk, the turning point of World War II /
- Queen Victoria and her prime ministers : her life, the imperial ideal, and the politics and turmoil that shaped her extraordinary reign /
- Writing History, Writing Trauma /
- Dark laboratory : on Columbus, the Caribbean, and the origins of the climate crisis /
- The bonds of kinship in Dahomey : portraits of West African girlhood, 1720-1940 /
- Freilegungen : Rebuilding Lives - Child Survivors and DP Children in the Aftermath of the Holocaust and Forced Labor.
- Strike Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire.
- Hitler's Priests : Catholic Clergy and National Socialism /
- The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town : Personal Recollection, Private Letters, and Oral Testimony /
- The last transport : the holocaust in the Eastern Aegean /
- After such knowledge : memory, history, and the legacy of the Holocaust /
- Mothers against war : gender, motherhood, and peace activism in cold war Japan /
- Are you willing to die for the cause? /
- Buddhism and the senses : a guide to the good and bad /
- Feudal relations in Iran Azerbaijan & Armenia, 1500-1900 /
- Suffrage song : the haunted history of gender, race, and voting rights in the United States of America /
- The story of monasticism : retrieving an ancient tradition for contemporary spirituality /
- A cold spell : a human history of ice /
- Punjabi centuries : tracing histories of Punjab /
- A cultural history of genocide /
- Crucibles of Power : Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule /
- Love in a f*cked-up world : how to build relationships, hook up, and raise hell together /
- Buddha's words for tough times : an anthology /
- The enduring hold of Islam in Turkey : the revival of the religious orders and rise of Erdoğan /
- Nazis on the run : how Hitler's henchmen fled justice /
- Eastbound Through Siberia : Observations from the Great Northern Expedition.
You can use the Library Catalogue to find books on your research topic, and you can find searching tips and strategies in the Library Catalogue search guide. You may also wish to browse these ebook collections, which are especially strong in the area of History:
Cambridge Histories Online
Historical reference resources in the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music, and the arts.
Ebook Central Academic Complete
Ebooks spanning a wide variety of disciplines from a range of academic, scholarly publishers, with over 22,000 in History alone.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Ebooks spanning a wide variety of disciplines from a range of academic, scholarly publishers, including contemporary books and classic works of literature and history.
Articles
You can find articles by searching the Library Catalogue or by looking in subject-specific databases and journals.
Suggested databases
America: History and Life
Indexes literature on all aspects of United States and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes literature on the history of the world since 1450 except for the United States and Canada.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to a large archival collection of core scholarly journals, mainly in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Project MUSE Search
A searchable, full-text collection of academic journals and ebooks from university presses and scholarly societies. Subjects include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
These databases cover the major areas of historical research, but there are also databases on specific geographic regions, time periods, and groups of people. See the full list of History databases for these and other relevant collections.
Journals
While the Library Catalogue and databases search many journals at once, browsing individual journals can sometimes be helpful if you are starting out with your topic or researching a very specific area. To see journals in the area of History, you can search the History journals here.