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Junior Seminar in United
States History
The U.S. in the World in the 20th Century
History 391
Finding Books
Using Catalogs to locate books:
- Search by Keyword
- Find and Use Subject Headings
- When possible, browse the shelves by Call
Number
1.) Ariadne
2.)
MeLCat ( includes WMU's libraries)
3.)
WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog
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- Don't forget to browse the collections.
- Don't forget to use print and online bibliographies.
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Samples of Background Sources
- American Decades
Ref. E169.12 .A419 1994 v.1-10
- The American Nation: primary sources
Ref. E173 .A747 2008
- The American years
Ref. E174.5 .G753 2003 v.1-2
- Cold War America, 1946 to 1990
Ref. E741 .G76 2003
- The Columbia chronicles of American life, 1910-1992
Ref. E169.1 .G667 1995
- Encyclopedia of American History
Ref.E174 .E53 2003
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the twentieth century
Ref. E740.7 .E53 1996 v.1-5
- Historical dictionary of the 1950s
Ref. E835 .O44 2000
- Historical dictionary of the 1960s
Ref. E841 .H58 1999
- Historical dictionary of the 1970s
Ref. E865 .H57 1999
- The sixties in America
Ref. E841 .S55 1999 v.1-3
- The sixties chronicle
Ref. E841 .S59 2004
- War and American popular culture : a historical encyclopedia
Ref. E181 .W26 1999
Finding Journal Articles
See Also the History Research guide Finding Articles on History.
Off-Campus Access to
Licensed Resources
Journal Indexes & Databases
Online Indexes
America: History and Life <
about
>
Historical
Abstracts< about >
Humanities Abstracts < about >
PAIS International < about > (Public Affairs Information Service) Political Science
Social Sciences Abstracts < about >
Full Text Databases
JSTOR
< about
>
Project
Muse <
about
>
ProQuest Research Library < about >
Which index includes the journal I'm looking for? Is the journal Scholarly?
Do you have access to a journal?
1.) Ariadne
(print)
- Title search on Title of
the Journal to locate print journal
2.) Online Journals at K
- Title search on Title of
the Journal to locate article in a Full Text
Database
3.)
WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog
Finding Primary Sources
Primary Sources in the Kalamazoo College Library
Use these terms in Ariadne to locate primary sources (search
by subject and keyword):
- Diaries
- Personal narratives
- Correspondence
- Speeches
- Autobiographies
- Films
- Photographs
- Audio recordings
Local Repositories of Primary Sources
Online Sources for Newspapers and Journals
Historical New York Times (1851 to 3 years ago) < about >
Kalamazoo Gazette Historical < about > Full-text coverage of the weekly and daily versions of the Kalamazoo Gazette, 1837-1922.
Readers'
Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) <
about
>
Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983-present) < about >
Available at Western Michigan: Historical Newspapers. Includes full-text articles for
Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1945);
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003);
The Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975);
Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986);
Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1996);
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005);
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1987);
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993);
The New York Times (1851 - 2006);
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002);
The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1992);
The Washington Post (1877 - 1993)
Primary Sources on the Web
What are primary sources?
Primary sources are records or objects that have survived
from the past, such as letters, photographs, diaries, audio
recordings, video recordings, newspaper articles written at
the time of an event, buildings, speeches, scrapbooks, pamphlets,
furniture, tools, household items, clothing, toys...
Websites About Primary Sources
Explainations and examples of primary sources
Websites for Primary Sources
Kalamazoo
College Library Guide to Primary Sources
OAIster
Oaister is a union catalog for digital resources from open archives collections. It contains multidisciplinary resources from more than 1000 contributors. The collections include born-digital texts, images, audio files, theses, and research papers.
American History Online
A project of the Andrew W. Mellon foundation and the University of Illinois to provide scholars with access to historical digital library collections from a wide variety of sources.
American Memory
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library From
the Library of Congress.
Topics include History, Political Science and Law, Social
Sciences, and many others.
http://memory.loc.gov/
Making of America
from Cornell University and Making
of America from University of Michigan
a digital library of primary sources in American social history
from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Includes nineteenth century periodicals at Cornell
site and the U
of M site.
Primary Sources: 20th c. United States History
A subject guide prepared by the University of Washington libraries.
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national
research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing
access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples
of African descent throughout the world.
AMDOCS: Documents for
the Study of American History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Full text of primary source documents in American History,
from 1400 through 2000.
World History Sources
A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University,
Government Publications on the Web
FDsys FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government publications.
U.S Department of State. Office of the Historian
U.S. National Archives
Google U.S. Government search
Evaluating Web Sites
Use these points to evaluate the credibility of Websites:
1. Accuracy
How reliable is the information? Are there editors and
fact checkers?
2. Authority
What are the author's qualifications? Is the publisher
reputable?
3. Objectivity
Is the author trying to sway opinion? Is the information
free from bias?
4. Currency
Is the publication date indicated? Is the source up
to date?
5. Coverage
Does the site cover the topic comprehensively, or are
there information gaps?
Sites that provide guidance on evaluating Websites:
Citing Your Sources
in the Chicago Style
Examples of Citations in the Chicago Style:
Book citation:
| Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly
Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. |
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New York: A.A. Knopf, 1985. |
Journal Citation:
| Edwards, Justin D. "Henry James's
'Alien' New York: Gender and Race in the |
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American Scene." American Studies
International 36, no. 1 (1998): 66-80. |
Chapter in a Book:
| Schlereth, Thomas J. "Country Stores,
County Fairs, and Mail-Order Catalogues: |
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Consumption in Rural America." In
Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display |
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of Goods in America, 1880-1920
edited by Simon J. Bronner, 251-300. |
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New York: Norton, 1989. |
Chicago
Manual of Style
14th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Reference, Z253 .U69 1993.
Chicago
Style
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.
See the The
Chicago Manual of Style FAQ web site for citing electronic
resources in the Chicago Style.
See: How
to Cite Sources
See also Citing
Sources for help in citing print and electronic resources
in various bibliographic styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)
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