History of Slavery and Antislavery: Finding a Dissertation

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.

Dissertations & Theses Full Text includes citations to almost 1 million dissertations and theses from around the world. Dissertations published since 1997 are generally available in full text but require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.