Records Relating to Charity and Charitable Institutions: Secondary sources

For narrow topics, try keyword expert searches using synonyms and related concepts to expand your search. For example:
(charit* OR philanthrop*) AND (women OR female OR ladies OR lady) AND (quaker* OR "society of friends")

Access to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.

Take the most useful source you have found, search for it here, and use the "Cited By" function to find other related material.

Primary databases covering scholarly literature about history around the world.

Access to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.

Google Scholar-like breadth plus the ability to limit searches by discipline, subject and other filters.