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U.S. History

Research guide for sources in U.S. history

Sofia Discovery tool | SEARCH McGILL RESOURCES

 

Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources: books, journals & articles, multimedia, and other resources, in both print or electronic format.

Tips for Searching the Catalogue

The monograph (a specialist book) is the primary means of scholarly communication in history as a discipline. Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources including books and eBooks.

You can search using words like - revolution, america*, politic*, hist*, etc.

Search tips for the library catalogue:

Truncation symbol: * e.g., hist* will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, historical, historically, histoire, etc.
Phrase searching: "___" e.g., "United States" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase United States
Boolean operators: (...), AND, OR, NOT
default: AND
e.g., america* AND (women OR gender) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word america or american AND either women OR gender
Subject headings: su:(___) e.g., su:"United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783" will retrieve catalogue records assigned this subject heading

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