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The Age of Discovery Professor Mangan Spring 2006 Reference Works Primary Sources General Search Tools Collections of Books, 1475-1860 Colonial Records, Laws, & Other Documents Diaries Periodicals Other Examples Secondary Sources Tools for Locating Books Tools for Locating Articles Using RefWorks Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Atlases | Biographical Works | General Works Covering Colonial History Atlases Atlas of World History. Ed. Patrick O'Brien. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. Reference Atlas Area R 911 A8811 Historical Atlas of Central America. Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Reference R 911.72 H174h Historical Atlas of Exploration, 1492-1600. Angus Konstam. New York: Checkmark Books, 2000. Reference R 910.9 K82h Historical Atlas of Latin America: Political, Geographic, Economic, Cultural. A. Curtis Wilgus. New ed. New York: Cooper Square, 1967. Reference R 911.8 W677h The Routledge Atlas of American History. Martin Gilbert. 4th ed. New York: Routledge, 2003. Reference R 911.73 G465a4 Shepherd's Historical Atlas. William R. Shepherd. 9th ed. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1964. Reference R 911 S54h 9th ed. The Times Atlas of World Exploration: 3,000 Years of Exploring, Explorers, and Mapmaking. Ed. Felipe Fernández-Armesto. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Reference Atlas Area R 912 T583 Biographical Works American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002. Reference R 920.073 A512 Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . Dictionary of Mexican Rulers, 1325-1997. Juana Vázquez-Gómez. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. Reference R 923.172 V393d Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. Reference R 920 N2111 General Works Covering Colonial History Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia. Ed. Melvin E. Page. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003. Reference R 325.3 C719 Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003. Reference R 973 D554 2003 Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America. John Mack Faragher. New York: Facts on File, 1990. Reference R 973.3 E56 Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Year 1800. Raymond John Howgego. Potts Point, NSW, Australia: Hordern House, 2003. Reference R 910.9 H859e Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Ed. Barbara A. Tenenbaum. 5 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 980 E56 Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, & Culture. Ed. Michael S. Werner. 2 vols. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. Reference R 972 E561 Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Ed. Jacob Ernest Cooke. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993. Reference R 973.1 E56 Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul F. Grendler. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1999. Reference R 940.2 E56 Europe 1450-1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2004. Reference R 940.2 E89 Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1991. Reference R 903 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1992. Reference R 914.6 H673 Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603. Ronald H. Fritze. New York: Greenwood, 1991. Reference R 942.04 H673 History of World Trade Since 1450. Ed. John McCusker. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006. Latin American Historical Dictionaries Series. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1970- . Historical Dictionary of ... ... Bolivia (Reference R 984 H437h) ... Brazil (Reference R 981 L665h) ... Chile (Reference R 983 B625h) ... Colombia (Reference R 986.1 D263h) ... Costa Rica (Reference R 972.86 C913h) ... Cuba (Reference R 972.91 S942h) ... Ecuador (Reference R 986.6 B734h) ... El Salvador (Reference R 972.84 F598h) ... Honduras (Reference R 972.83 M612h) ... Nicaragua (Reference R 972.85 M612h) ... Panama (Reference R 918.62 H456h) ... Paraguay (Reference R 989.2 K81h) ... Uruguay (Reference R 989.5 W734h) ... Venezuela (Reference R 987 R917h) Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Michael Gerli. New York: Routledge, 2003. Reference R 946.02 M489 Northern New Spain: A Research Guide. Thomas C. Barnes et al. Tucson, AZ: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1981. Reference R 016.979 B261n The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Ed. David Carrasco. 3 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. Reference R 972.01 O98 Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain. New York: Garland, 2001. Reference R 942.05 T912 Primary Sources General Search Tools | Maps | Collections of British & American Books Colonial Records, Laws, & Other Documents Diaries | Newspapers | Other Examples General Search Tools Library Catalogue To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: sources correspondence diaries personal narratives. For more details, see below. WorldCat To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: sources correspondence diaries personal narratives. Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format. For more details, see below. Maps Cumming Map Collection, Rare Book Room, E.H. Little Library This collection, donated by William Patterson Cumming, contains 48 rare sixteenth and seventeenth-century North American maps and other materials. For additional information about the maps, Ask a Librarian. Discovery and Exploration, from the Library of Congress Part of American Memory, this collection includes a number of sixteenth and seventeenth-century maps. Early Maps, from the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin Contains 33 maps dating from the 1600s to mid-1800s. North American Map Collection, from the State University System of Florida PALMM Project Includes maps from 1564 onwards; the Florida Map Collection and Caribbean Basin Map Collection are part of this collection. Digital Map Archives, from the Ryhiner Map Collection, Bern, Switzerland Contains many historical maps of regions of the world. ... and many more on the Web. For other sites, see Images of Early Maps on the Web, from the WWW Virtual Library's Map History / History of Cartography gateway. Collections of Early Printed Books Early English Books Online (EEB0) (1475-1700) Includes over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, almanacs, and other publications printed in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To print more than one page of a document, you need to "Mark All" pages, view your "Marked List," and then download the document images (not the citation). Once the document is downloaded, you can print out a range of pages or the entire document using the print function in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Early American Imprints. First Series (Evans): 1639-1800 [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes over 42,000 titles, including almanacs, bibles, charters, cookbooks, maps, printed music, novels, plays, poems, primers, sermons, speeches, treaties, travelogues, and textbooks. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To search for individual titles, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue and limit your search to location "Early American Imprints." Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800) Includes the full text of 155,000 150,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. Travels in the Old South [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes copies of works by travelers to the South between 1607 and 1860. The titles, over 600 in number, are described in Thomas D. Clark's Travels in the Old South: A Bibliography (3 vols.; Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1956-1959), shelved in Reference at call number R 016.917 C59tr. Guide to the microfiche collection: Reference R 016.975 C595t Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society The Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, publishes narratives of voyages, travels, and expeditions as well as other early works on geography, navigation, and exploration. Works originally written in other languages are translated into English. To date, more than 270 titles have been published in three series. Library has: First Series: microfiche cabinet A-1A Second Series: microfiche cabinet A-1A (2nd ser. nos. 1-107) and Little Library Stacks 910.8 H15w (2nd ser. nos. 109-190 plus misc. earlier nos.) Third Series: Little Library Stacks 910.8 H15w (nos. 1- ) [ongoing] To find works in these series, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue; add the phrase "works issued by the hakluyt society." Example: barbados and "works issued by the hakluyt society" Colonial Records, Laws, & Other Documents Acts of the Privy Council of England, Colonial Series, Volumes 1-6: 1613/1680-1783. 6 vols. 1908-1912. Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1966. Little Library Stacks 942 G78a British Naval Documents, 1204-1960. Ed. John B. Hattendorf et al. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1993. Little Library Stacks 942.006 N327p v.131 Calendar of State Papers: Colonial Series. 43 vols. 1860-1939. Vaduz: Kraus Reprint, 1964. Little Library Stacks 942 G78c A collection of documents on the British Colonies; includes correspondence to and from colonial governors and covers topics such as business and economy, agriculture, boundary disputes, slavery, piracy, and more. The Colonial Records of North Carolina. 9 vols. Raleigh, NC: Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission, 1963. Little Library Stacks 975.6 N8c The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia. Comp. Allen D. Chandler. 26 vols. Atlanta, GA: C.P. Byrd, 1904-1916. Little Library Stacks 975.8 C71 Early American Imprints See above for full description. Contains a handful of American publications of individual British statutes and laws. Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1475-1700) See above for full description. Contains a number of early collections of English statutes. You can search EEBO by title, keyword, or subject. See also A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640. Comp. A.W. Pollard and G.R. Redgrave. 2nd ed. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976-1986 (Reference R 015.42 P77s2). To find lists of English statutes, look in volume 1. Titles of general collections of statutes appear on pages 416-419. Titles of collections of statutes on special subjects appear on pages 419-420. Titles of statutes published during particular reigns are listed on pages 420-436. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. Comp. Donald Wing. 2nd ed. 4 vols. New York: Modern Language Association, 1972-1998 (Reference R 015.42 W76s2). To find lists of English statutes, look in volume 1 on pages 849-853; acts of Parliament are listed on pages 855-931. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. William Waller Hening. 13 vols. Richmond, VA: Samuel Pleasants, 1809-1823. Little Library Rare Book Room 345.12 V8s Contains acts from 1619 to 1792. See also: The Laws of Virginia; Being a Supplement to Hening's The Statutes at Large, 1700-1750. Comp. Waverly K. Winfree. Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1971. Little Library Rare Book Room 345.12 V8s-L The Statutes at Large of South Caroline. Ed. Thomas Cooper, Columbia, SC: A.S. Johnston, 1836-1837. 2 vols. [n.p.]: South Carolina Bar Association, 1970. Little Library Stacks 345.22 S726s Contains acts from 1682 to 1716. The Statutes, from the Twentieth Year of King Henry the Third to the [Tenth Chapter of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Years of King George the Sixth,] A.D. 1235-[1948]. Ed. Robert Drayton. 3rd rev. ed. 32 vols. London: HMSO, 1950. Reference Extension 346 G78s Also known as The Statutes Revised, Third Edition. Covers British statutes dating from 1235-1948 and still in force, or not repealed, in 1948. This is therefore an incomplete set of British statutes. Each volume does contain a subject index as well as a useful chronological table of statutes omitted in whole or part, with information on year and session of repeal, where appropriate. If you know the title of the statute, if the statute dates from before 1700, and if it does not appear in this set, try the search tips listed under EEBO, above. Diaries American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. 2 vols. Laura Arksey et al. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1983-1987. Reference R 016.92 A721a Volume 1 covers Diaries Written from 1492 to 1844. American Women's Diaries [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-2 This collection includes handwritten diaries from the colonial period through the beginning of the twentieth century. It is in three parts of this collection: New England Women (8 diaries), Southern Women (32 diaries), and Western Women (600 diaries). Guides:    Segment 1, New England Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121n    Segment 2, Southern Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121s    Segment 3, Western Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121w And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. Patricia Pate Havlice. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987. Reference R 016.92 H388a North American Women's Letters & Diaries This collection provides the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. The texts were written contemporaneously; memoirs are not included. Newspapers Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) Contains digital facsimiles of 617 early American newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable. Based on Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, listed below. To locate newspapers on microfilm in the E.H. Little Library, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue for the word "newspapers" and then limit by date and by material type "newspapers." Newspapers in our collection include: Aurora General Advertiser (1794-1812) [microfilm] Cape Fear Mercury (1769-1775) [microfilm] Georgia Gazette (1797-1802) [microfilm] Newbern Gazette (1798-1804) [microfilm] North Carolina Gazette (1789-1798) [microfilm] Raleigh Register (1799-1886) [microfilm] Virginia Gazette (1790-1809) [microfilm] The [London] Times (1785 to present) [microfilm] Index: Reference Index Area R 070 T58 Washington Gazette (1796-1821) [microfilm] The Wilmington Gazette (1797-1815) [microfilm] British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1641-1700: A Short-Title Catalogue of Serials Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, and British North America. Carolyn Nelson. New York: Modern Language Association, 1987. Reference R 015.42 N425b A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. R.S. Crane and F.B. Kaye. New York: Johnsonian Reprint Corp., 1963. Reference R 016.05 C891 A Checklist of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress. Henry S. Parsons. New ed. New York: Greenwood, [1968]. Reference R 015.73 U58c History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. Clarence Saunders Brigham. 2 vols. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947. Reference R 016.07 B85h See also Additions and Corrections to History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1961), shelved in Reference at call number R 016.07 B85h Newspapers in Microform: Foreign Countries, 1948-1972. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1973. Reference R 016.07 N581nf Note: Ignore the "1948-1972" in the title of this work; this volume lists foreign newspapers published in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Other Examples An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru. Titu Cusi Yupanqui. Trans. Ralph Bauer. Boulder, CO: Univ. of Colorado Press, 2005. Little Library Stacks 985 Y95r-T Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850. Ed. Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling. New York: Oxford, 2000. Little Library Stacks 980.3 C719 Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History. Ed. Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998. Little Library Stacks 980.01 C7191 Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542. Ed. Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist Univ. Press, 2005 Little Library Stacks 979.01 D637 Letters and People of the Spanish Indies, Sixteenth Century. Ed. and trans. James Lockhart and Enrique Otte. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976. Little Library Stacks 980.01 L651 New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612. Ed. David B. Quinn. 5 vols. New York: Arno Press, 1979. Little Library Stacks 970.01 N532 New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the early 17th Century. Ed. John H. Parry and Robert G. Keith. 5 vols. New York: Hector & Rose, 1984. Little Library Stacks 980.01 N532 A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: Including Voyages, Geographical Descriptions, Adventures, Shipwrecks and Expeditions. Edward Godfrey Cox. 3 vols. New York: Greenwood, [1969]. Reference R 016.91 C877r We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Ed. and trans. James Lockhart. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1993. Reference R 972.02 W361 Secondary Sources Books | Articles Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war"). Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Articles Academic Search Premier (1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. America: History and Life (Prehistory to present [historical time period covered]; 1964 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Time period searches: search by decade or century only. To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D). To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD. Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below). To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H). To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. Historical Abstracts (1450 to present [historical time period covered]; 1954 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on world history, excluding the history of the U.S. and Canada. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Time period searches: search by decade or century only. To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D). To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD. Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below). To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H). To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700 [historical time period covered]; 1842 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles and books on topics related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Essay & General Literature Index (1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online (1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers covering topics related to Latin America; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online (1970 to present) Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and original literary works and covers the literature, history, culture, and politics of the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, and the United States-Mexico border. Also covers works related to Hispanics in the United States. Search Syntax Truncation: automatic. Phrase searching: automatic. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all humanities subjects, including history, classics, art, archeology, literature, philosophy, and religion. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years. Search Syntax Truncation: use a plus sign +. Phrase searching: automatic. Periodicals Index Online (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Using RefWorks Need help managing your references? Try RefWorks! You can use it to organize your citations, keep track of your notes on books and articles, and generate bibliographies. 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