About Dissertations
A dissertation in history represents the culmination of many years of research and writing by a successful PhD candidate. The topics must be unique, narrowly focused, and undergo an exhaustive literature review. Thus, mining bliographies of dissertations is often a wonderful way to begin to assemble a list of secondary sources for your own research project.
Search for a Dissertation or Thesis
- Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts)Doctoral dissertations and some masters' theses from many North American graduate schools and some European universities. Full text is available for publications since 1997; citations and abstracts are available from earlier years (as far back as the late 19th century).
