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Reference Works

• Style Guides
  • Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010.
    Little Library Reference Desk: REF Z253 .U69 2010
    Note: up to ten people can search the online version at any one time.
    See also the Chicago Citation Quick Guide.
  • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Kate Turabian; rev. Wayne C. Booth et al. 7th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007.
    Reference Desk REF LB2369 .T8 2007
  • A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Mary Lynn Rampolla. 6th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010.
    Reference Desk: REF D13 .R295 2010
  • You can also use RefWorks to generate in-text citations and reference lists in Chicago format.
• Biographical Works
  • American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999- .
  • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
    Includes:
    • Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Edward T. James. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1971.
      Reference R 920.7 N899
  • Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Ed. William S. Powell. 6 vols. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1979-1996.
    Reference R 920.075 D554
  • Dictionary of South Carolina Biography. Ed. Richard Côté. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1985- .
    Reference R 920.075 D5542
  • Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Ed. John Kneebone et al. 3 vols. to date. Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 1998- .
    Reference R 920.0755 D554
• General Works on Southern History
  • Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
    Reference R 909.04 A2581
  • The American South: A Historical Bibliography. Ed. Jessica Brown. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1986.
    Reference R 016.975 A512
  • Bibliography of Religion in the South. Charles Lippy. Macon, GA: Mercer, 1985.
    Reference R 016.28 L766b
  • Bibliography of Southern Appalachia. Ed. Charlotte Ross. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1976.
    Reference R 016.975 B582
  • The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century. Catherine Clinton and Christine Lunardini. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2000.
    Reference R 305.4 C641C
  • Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Ed. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter Williams. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
    Reference R 973.04 E564
  • Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton et al. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993.
    Reference R 301.097 E56
  • Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America. John Mack Faragher. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
    Reference R 973.3 E56
  • Encyclopedia of North Carolina. Ed. William S. Powell. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2006.
    Reference R 975.6 E561
  • Encyclopedia of Southern History. Ed. David Roller and Robert Twyman. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1979.
    Reference R 975 E56
  • Encyclopedia of the South. Ed. Robert O'Brien. New York: Facts on File, 1985.
    Reference R 975 O13e
  • Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
    Reference R 973.5 E56
  • Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996.
    Reference R 973.03 E562
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    A collection of over 200 electronic reference works. Includes:
    • Datapedia of the United States: American History in Numbers. George Thomas Kurian. 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Bernan, 2008.
    • Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003.
      Reference R 973 D554 2003
    • Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Ed. Gary Anderson and Kathryn Herr. 3 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.
    • Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin Palmer. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
    • ... and many more!
  • The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Ed. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 973.04 H3391
  • The Historical Dictionary of World Slavery. Ed. Junius Rodriguez. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
    Reference R 306.36 H673
  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ed. Charles Reagan Wilson. 13 vols. to date. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2006- .
    Reference R 975 N532

Primary Sources

• General Tools
  See also the bibliographies listed in the reference works listed above.
  • Library Catalog
    To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
    • sources
    • correspondence
    • diaries
    • personal narratives
    You can also do a keyword search and limit your search by publication date.
  • 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.
• Contemporary Books, Pamphlets, & Broadsides
  In addition to searching the Library Catalog and WorldCat and limiting by publication date, try the following:
  • American Broadsides & Ephemera
    (c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works. Part of the Archive of Americana.
  • The American Catalogue of Books (Originals and Reprints) Published in the United States from Jan. 1861 to Jan. 1871. James Kelly. 2 vols. 1866-1877. New York: P. Smith, 1938.
    Reference R 015.73 K29a
  • Google Books
    Be sure to limit your search to "Full view only" or "Public Domain only" in order to find books that you can view cover-to-cover and/or download.
    For more information about public domain, see our guide to works in the public domain.
  • Hathi Trust
    A digital collection of works held by a number of major research libraries. Be sure to limit your search to "Full view only" to view works that you can view cover-to-cover.
    Note: as of September 2010, only 15% of works in the Hathi Trust are in the public domain. For more information about public domain, see our guide to works in the public domain.
  • Making of America
    Contains the full text of journals and books from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
    Note: There are two sites for the Making of America:
    • University of Michigan site
    • Cornell University site
  • Travels in the New South: A Bibliography. Ed. Thomas D. Clark. 2 vols. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1962.
    LC REF F209 .C5 1962
    Volume 1 covers "The Postwar South, 1865-1900: An Era of Reconstruction and Readjustment."
    Volume 2 covers "The Twentieth-Century South, 1900-1955."
• Diaries
  See also the bibliographies in the general reference works listed above.
  • 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
    Vol. 2: Diaries Written from 1845 to 1980
  • American Women's Diaries: Southern Women [microfilm]
    Microfilm cabinet C-2
    This collection includes 32 handwritten diaries from the colonial period through the beginning of the twentieth century.
    Guide: Segment 2, Southern Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121s
  • 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.
  • The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Joyce Goodfriend. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1987.
    Reference R 016.92 G651p
• Legal Documents
  • Making of Modern Law
    A collection of digital facsimiles of U.S. and U.K. legal documents. Includes:
    • Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises (1800-1926)
      Contains over 21,800 U.S. and U.K. historical legal treatises, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works written for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and more.
    • Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources (1620-1926)
      Includes early state codes, constitutional conventions, city charters, law dictionaries, legal digests, and published records of the American colonies.
    • Making of Modern Law: Trials (1600-1926)
      Over 10,000 titles, including trial transcripts, official records of proceedings, and popular printed accounts of U.S. and U.K. trials. Drawn from the Harvard, Yale, and Association of the Bar of the City of New York libraries.
    • Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs (1832-1978)
      Includes over 350,000 official Court filings; covers 150,000 Supreme Court cases. Documents include briefs, petitions, transcripts, and more. Covers 150,000 cases. Drawn from the collections of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library in Philadelphia and the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    Note: at this time, these four collections are not cross-searchable; each collection must be searched separately.
• Newspapers, Magazines, & Journals
  Newspapers | Magazines & Journals
  • Newspapers
    Individual Newspapers | Collections of Newspapers
    • Individual Newspapers
      Be sure to search the collections of newspapers too.
      • 19th Century
        • Indexes to 19th-Century Newspapers
        • 19th Century Newspapers in Little Library
      • 20th Century
        • Indexes to 20th-Century Newspapers
        • 20th Century Newspapers in Little Library
      • Newspapers held by Other Libraries: How to Find Them
    • Collections of Newspapers
      
      • Accessible Archives
        • African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
          (1827-1902) Includes the full text of The Christian Recorder (1861-1902), a newspaper published by the African Methodist Church.
      • America's Historical Newspapers
        (1690-1998) Contains digital facsimiles of over 1,000 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
        Includes:
        • African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
        • Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922
        • Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
        This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
        Search syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • Historic Newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post
        (1851-2006) Provides the full text of the New York Times with index (1851-2006), Wall Street Journal (1889-1992), and Washington Post (1877-1993).
        For help printing these images, see printing tips.
        Search syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • Magazines & Journals
    Guides to Magazines | Magazines & Journals in Little Library | Periodical Indices & Online Collections
    • Guides to Magazines
      See also Guides & Bibliographies to 19th Century Magazines and Journals and Bibliographies and Guides to 20th Century Popular Magazines.
      • African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. Ed. James P. Danky. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998.
        Reference R 015.73 A258
        Includes information about popular magazines
      • American Mass-Market Magazines. Ed. Alan Nourie and Barbara Nourie. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990.
        LC Reference REF PN4877 .A48 1990
      • Index to City and Regional Magazines of the United States. Comp. Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow. New York: Greenwood, 1989.
        Reference R 015.73 R573i
      • Index to Southern Periodicals. Comp. Sam G. Riley. New York: Greenwood, 1986.
        Reference R 015.75 R573i
      • Magazines of the American South. Sam G. Riley. New York: Greenwood, 1986.
        Reference R 051 R573m
      • Regional Interest Magazines of the United States. Ed. Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
        Reference R 051 R336
      • Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines. Ed. Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. Reference R 051.09 W8721
      • Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues. Ed. Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. Reference R 051.09 W872
    • Magazines & Journals in Little Library
      • 19th Century Popular Magazines & Journals in Little Library
      • 20th Century Popular Magazines in Little Library
    • Periodical Indices & Collections
      • 19th-Century Masterfile
        Indexes articles in 479 British and American periodicals published in the nineteenth century.
        Note: The print version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), which is part of 19th-Century Masterfile, is available in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P82.
      • Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1898)
        In addition, the Library has some individual issues from July 1865, August 1865, July 1867, June 1869, and August 1870. These are kept in Permanent Reserve; please ask for help at the Circulation Desk.
      • Humanities & Social Sciences Index
        (1907 to present). For the period 1907-1984, this database indexes journal articles in both the humanities and social sciences; it also includes the International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965). From 1985 to the present, the focus is on the humanities.
        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 ?
      • PAIS International
        (1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: automatic
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • Periodicals Index Online
        (c. 1665-1995) 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
      • Readers' Guide Abstracts
        (1890 to present) Indexes articles in popular periodicals; also includes citations to book and film reviews.
        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 ?
• Travel Accounts
  • To find accounts of travelers' visits to the South, do Subject searches in the Library Catalog and Worldcat; include the name of the state or region and the phrase "description and travel."
    Examples:
    • Southern states description and travel
    • Virginia description and travel
  • Making of America
    Contains the full text of journals and books from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
    Note: There are two sites for the Making of America:
    University of Michigan site
    Cornell University site
  • Travels in America, From the Voyages of Discovery to the Present: An Annotated Bibliography of Travel Articles in Periodicals, 1955-1980. Garold L. Cole. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1984.
    Reference R 016.917 C689t
    Note: the travel narratives date from the mid-sixteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries and were published between 1955 and 1980.
  • Travels in the New South: A Bibliography. Ed. Thomas D. Clark. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1962.
    LC REF F209 .C5 1962
    Volume 1 covers "The Postwar South, 1865-1900: An Era of Reconstruction and Readjustment."
    Volume 2 covers "The Twentieth-Century South, 1900-1955."
• U.S. Government Documents
  To find additional government documents, be sure to search the Library Catalog too; in the first drop-down menu on the main search page, limit your search to "Little Government Information" and then enter relevant search terms.
  • Archives Unbound
    Contains over 20 primary source document collections; each collection is focused on a particular topic. Most of these collections are based on microform collections.
    The collection includes:
    • Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
      Contains a number of FBI Files, including several that the Library has on microfilm (the FBI File on the Highlander Folk School and the FBI File on the Black Panther Part in North Carolina).
    • James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi
      Contains FBI documents related to the integration of the University of Mississippi in 1961-1962.
  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
    From the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Contains the full text of:
    • American State Papers (1789-1838)
    • Debates from the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837), Congressional Globe (1833-1873), and Congressional Record (1873-1875)
    • House and Senate Bills & Resolutions (1799-1873)
    • Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and Senate (1789-1875)
    • Statutes at Large (1789-1875)
  • Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909. Congressional: To Close of Sixtieth Congress; Departmental: To End of Calendar Year 1909. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1911.
    Reference Extension GP 3.2:C 41/2
    Also available online from the Internet Archive.
  • A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774 - March 4, 1881. Comp. Benjamin Perley Poore. Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1885.
    Online:
    • In the U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    • JScholarship (pdf), from Johns Hopkins University
    • University of North Texas Libraries
    Print: shelved in Government Documents Office [fragile condition]; ask at the Reference Desk.
  • Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, from the FBI
    Contains the full text of many historical FBI records released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Includes records about people, organizations, such as the The Black Panther Party in Winston Salem, NC, and notable events.
  • LexisNexis Congressional
    Indexes Congressional documents and includes the full text of:
    • The Congressional Record (1789 to present)
      The official record of the proceedings and debates of the House and Senate.
      The library also has print volumes of the Congressional Record (1873-2009; Government Information Stacks at call number X) and microfiche (20 July 1982 to present; Government Information microfiche cabinet X.1).
    • Published and unpublished committee hearings (1824 to present), with selected transcripts from 2004 to present
    • Congressional Research Digital Collection (1830 to present), which contains committee prints and Congressional Research Service reports
    Note: for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals, see the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (described below).
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an exclamation point !
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use an asterisk *
  • Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1913-1995
    Reference Extension GP 3.8
    Lists government documents cataloged by the Government Printing Office (GPO). Each volume is arranged by departments and agencies, with a subject index. Use in conjunction with:
    • Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, 1900-1971. Comp. William Buchanan and Edna Kanely. 15 vols. Washington, DC: Carrollton Press, 1973-1975.
      Reference Extension [shelved adjacent to the ITS computers in SE corner of the main floor]
  • U.S. Census Data
    For information about census data, see Population Information in Nineteenth-Century Census Volumes, by Suzanne Schulze. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1983 (Reference R 304.6 S391p 1790-1890).
    • Online
      • Decennials: Census of Population and House (1790-1900), from the U.S. Census Bureau (pdf files)
        Complete, digitized versions of the print publications. For an easily-accessible subset of the decennials, see Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts.
      • Historical Census Browser (1790-1960), from the GeoStat Center at the University of Virginia Library
    • Print and microfilm
      The library has some of the print volumes of the decennials (1790 to present) on the ground (basement) floor; they are on the shelves immediately to your right as you exit the main stairwell. The population schedules for some southern states are available on microfilm (1870-1880, 1900-1920; microfilm cabinet 39).
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    (1817-1994, but see note below) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. political, military, cultural, economic, ethnic, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
    Note: this digital collection is not yet complete; as of September 2010, it contains documents from 1817-1989 (101st Congress, 1st session). To find documents dating from 101st Congress, 2nd session to the present, be sure to search LexisNexis Congressional and consult our microfiche holdings.
  • United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Mary Ellen Huls. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
    Reference R 016.305 H917u
• Other Examples of Primary Sources
  • American Memory, from the Library of Congress
    Contains a wealth of primary source material for American history.
  • Archive of Americana
    (c. 1639-1998) A collection of digital facsimiles of American books, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, and government documents, many of which are described above.
  • AP Images
    (1826 to present [images]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of image, graphics, and text databases from the Associated Press (AP). Over 700,000 AP photographs dating from 1826 to the present are available. The Graphics Database contains diagrams, maps, and charts dating from 1999. The text database contains the full text of AP reports from 1997 to the present.
    Note: Only one person can search this database at any one time.
    Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
  • ARTstor
    A collection of over one million images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images.
  • Digital Schomburg: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, from the New York Public Library
  • Documenting the American South, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • The Female Experience in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women. Jill K. Conway. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1985.
    Reference R 016.305 C767f
  • Making of America
    Contains the full text of journals and books from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
    Note: There are two sites for the Making of America:
    University of Michigan site
    Cornell University site
  • Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
    (c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes iPOLL, a database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more.
  • The Southern Black, Slave and Free: A Bibliography of Anti- and Pro-Slavery Books and Pamphlets and of Social and Economic Conditions in the Southern States from the Beginnings to 1950. Comp. Lawrence Thompson. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1970.
    Reference R 016.3 T473s

Secondary Sources

• Books
  • Library Catalog
    Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
    • To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. Useful subject headings include:
      • [name of state] history
      • Southern states history
      • Southern states history 19th century
      • Southern states history colonial period
    • 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 ?
  • ebrary
    A collection of over 46,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
    Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
  • 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 Catalog 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
  See also the bibliographies in the general reference works listed above.
  Core Resource | Other Resources
  • Core Resource
    
    • America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
      (Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
      • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
    • Other Resources
      To find additional resources, be sure to consult the indexes & databases pages too.
      • 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 ?
      • ATLA Religion Database
        (1949 to present) Indexes book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: automatic
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • Essay & General Literature Index
        (1900 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 ?
      • Humanities Abstracts
        (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
        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
      • Project Muse
        Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
      • Sociological Abstracts
        (1963 to present) Indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.
      • Web of Knowledge
        (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?