History Seminar

Books

Library Catalog

World Catalog

Articles

EBSCO - various databases

  • Use folder options to email, print
  • Use save option to save searches
  • Set up alerts

CQ Researcher

FirstSearch

  • Alternative Press Index
  • Arts and Humanities

New York Times, Historical

JSTOR

MUSE

DOAJ - access to scholarly full-text journals

 

Primary Sources and Republished Primary Sources

American Memory
Library of Congress provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Historic Documents of ... (1972-2005)
Ref E 839.5 .H57

World Catalog (specify subject and add "correspondence," "diaries," "interviews," "narratives")

 

Government Documents/Statistics

U.S. Historical Census Browser (1790-1960)

See also Government and Statistics subject guide for links to good sites for legislation, crime, education, population, statistics, etc.

Notre Dame and IUSB libraries both are government documents depository.

 

Legal Resources

LexisNexis

Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School)

 

Indexes/databases leading to contemporary accounts of events

New York Times, Historical (1851-2004)

Located in the Reference Room on index shelving:

  • International Index to Perioicals (1907-1974)
  • Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)

General Principles

  • Use both keyword and subject searching
  • Use descriptors or subject headings from relevant results
  • Read and follow footnotes and bibliographies in sources
  • Research as much as possible at GC to optimize time at other libraries
  • Think about your topic
    • list key issues, both broad and narrow
    • list types of material needed
      • manuscripts
      • archives
      • government agencies/statistics
      • news stories
      • editorials
      • scholarly research
      • oral history, photographs, artifacts
    • note time span
      • dates of primary material
      • terms used at different time periods

 

Interlibrary Loan

Begin now but do not order more than you can read at one time.

 

 



Updated 09-Jan-2008 SJM