Outline of this guide: Reference Works Primary Sources Secondary Sources

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• Reference Universe
  Don't know where to begin? Try Reference Universe, an index of the indexes in many of the library's reference books and e-books. Reference Universe will tell you which titles contain information on your topic.
• Style Guides
  • Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003.
    Reference R 808.02 C53 2003
  • A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Mary Lynn Rampolla. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.
    Reference Desk R 907.2 R177p
• 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- .
  • Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction. Eric Foner. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
    Reference R 920.9 F673f
  • Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary. Ed. Charles F. Ritter and Jon L. Wakelyn. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
    Reference R 973.7 L434
  • Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Edward T. James. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1971.
    Reference R 920.7 N899
    Also in Biography Reference Bank
• The Civil War & Reconstruction
  • The ABC-CLIO Companion to American Reconstruction, 1862-1877. William L. Richter. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996.
    Reference R 973.8 R573a
  • The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Ed. Steven E. Woodworth. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
    Reference R 016.973 A5122
  • The American South: A Historical Bibliography. Ed. Jessica Brown. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1986.
    Reference R 016.975 A512
  • The Atlas of the Civil War. Ed. James M. McPherson. New York: Macmillan, 1994.
    Reference R 973.73 A881
  • Atlas of the Civil War. Steven E. Woodworth and Kenneth J. Winkle. New York: Oxford, 2004.
    Reference Atlas Stand R 973.7 A912a
  • A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War. Craig L. Symonds. Annapolis, MD: Nautical & Aviation Pub., 1983.
    Little Library Stacks 973.7 S988b
  • The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. David J. Eicher. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997.
    Reference R 016.973 E34c
  • The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites. William G. Thomas and Alice E. Carter. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
    Reference R 973.7 T463
  • 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
  • Compendium of the Confederacy: An Annotated Bibliography: Books, Pamphlets, Serials. Comp. John H. Wright. 2 vols. Wilmington, DE: Broadfoot Pub., 1989.
    Reference R 016.973 W951
  • Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003.
    Reference R 973 D554 2003
  • 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 the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
    Reference R 973.7 E56
  • Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. Ed. Richard N. Current. 4 vols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
    Reference R 973.71 E56
  • Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
    Reference R 973.5 E56
  • The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861-1865. Kenneth C. Martis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
    Reference R 973.7 M386h
  • Historical Dictionary of the Civil War. Terry Jones. 2 vols. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2002.
    Reference R 973.7 J79h
  • Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction. William L. Richter. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004.
    Reference R 973.7 R537h
  • Historical Dictionary of the Old South. William L. Richter. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.
    Reference R 975 R535h
  • The Language of the Civil War. John D. Wright. Westport, CT: Oryx, 2001.
    Reference R 973.71 W951L
  • Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine. Frank R. Freemon. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1993.
    Reference R 016.973 F872m
  • Military Bibliography of the Civil War. Comp. C.E. Dornbusch. 4 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1975-1987.
    Reference R 016.97 M644
  • Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Comp. David A. Lincove. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.
    Reference R 016.973 L741r
  • Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography. Theresa McDevitt. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
    Reference R 016.973 M134w
  • Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia. Judith E. Harper. New York: Routledge 2004.
    Reference R 973.7 H293

• General Tools
  See also the bibliographies of primary sources 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
    • interviews 
    • personal narratives
    • pictorial works
    To find contemporary travelers' accounts by adding the phrase "description and travel" to your keyword search (e.g. california and "description and travel"); be sure to limit by date.
    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
    • interviews 
    • personal narratives
    • pictorial works
    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
  Be sure to search the Library Catalog and WorldCat too and limit by publication date.
  • 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
  • Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography. Ed. Allan Nevins et al. 2 vols. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1967-1969.
    Reference R 016.97 N527c
  • Compendium of the Confederacy: An Annotated Bibliography: Books, Pamphlets, Serials. Comp. John H. Wright. 2 vols. Wilmington, DE: Broadfoot Pub., 1989.
    Reference R 016.973 W951
    This work contains both primary and secondary sources; consult the subject index at the end of volume 2 for relevant entries.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860 - April 1861. Jon L. Wakelyn. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Travels in the Confederate States: A Bibliography. E. Merton Coulter. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1948.
    Reference R 016.917 C85t
  • Travels in the New South: A Bibliography. Ed. Thomas D. Clark. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1962.
    Reference R 016.917 C59t
    Volume 1 covers "The Postwar South, 1865-1900: An Era of Reconstruction and Readjustment."
  • Travels in the West and Southwest [microfiche]
    Microfiche cabinets
    Guide: Reference R 016.979 T979
    Contains a variety of books and other publications dating from the Civil War through the 1920s.
    To find titles in this collection: do a "keywords (search all fields)" search in the Library Catalog and add the phrase "travels in the west and southwest."
• Diaries, Letters, & Personal Narratives
  See also the tips on finding diaries in the Library Catalog and WorldCat (above) as well as the bibliographies listed in the reference works section, especially the Historical Dictionary of the Civil War, which contains a long list of published personal narratives.
  • American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. 2 vols. Laura Arksey et al. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1983-1985.
    Reference R 016.92 A721a
    Vol. 1: Diaries Written from 1492 to 1844
    Vol. 2: Diaries Written from 1845 to 1980
  • 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: New England Women (8 diaries), Southern Women (32 diaries), and Western Women (600 diaries).
    Guide: Segment 1, New England Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121n
    Guide: Segment 2, Southern Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121s
    Guide: 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
  • Civil War Diaries and Personal Narratives, 1960-1994: A Selected Bibliography of Books in the General Collections of the Library of Congress. Comp. Albert E. Smith, Jr. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998.
    Government Information Stacks LC 1.12/2:C 49/2
  • Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1955-1986. Garold L. Cole. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina, 1988.
    Reference R 016.973 C689c
  • Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1986-1996. Garold L. Cole. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2000.
    Reference R 016.973 C689ci
  • The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. David J. Eicher. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997.
    Reference R 016.973 E34c
    Contains entries for correspondence and narratives as well as lists of many secondary sources.
  • 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
  • Examples of individuals' diaries, letters, or narratives
    • Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War, by a Lady of Virginia. Judith W. McGuire. Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1995.
    • From that Terrible Field: Civil War Letters of James M. Williams, Twenty-First Alabama Infantry Volunteers. James M. Williams. University, AL: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1981.
    • Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865. Cornelia Hancock. Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1998.
    • The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865. Harold Holzer. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1998.
    • On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. James Henry Gooding. Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
    • Prison Life among the Rebels: Recollections of a Union Chaplain. Henry S. White. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 1990.
    • Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography. Mrs. John A. Logan. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1997.
    • A Surgeon's Civil War: The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt. Daniel M. Holt. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 1994.
    • This War So Horrible: The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams. Hiram Smith Williams. Tuscaloosa, AL: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1993.
• Government Documents
  • 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:
    • House and Senate Bills & Resolutions (1799-1873)
    • Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and Senate (1789-1875)
    • Statutes at Large (1789-1875)
  • LexisNexis Congressional
    (Late 1980s to present [full text]; 1789 to present [index]) Indexes congressional documents and provides the full text of many recent congressional publications.
    Note: Most of the full-text documents in LexisNexis Congressional date from the late 1980s to the present. Many of the older documents indexed by LexisNexis Congressional can be found in the United States Congressional Serial Set.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an exclamation point
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use an asterisk *
  • U.S. Census data
    • Online
      • Decennials: Census of Population and House (1790-1900), from the U.S. Census Bureau (pdf files)
      • Historical Census Browser (1790-1960), from the GeoStat Center at the University of Virginia Library
    • Print
      See also Population Information in Nineteenth-Century Census Volumes, by Suzanne Schulze. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1983 (Reference R 304.6 S391p 1790-1890).
      • 1860: Population of the United States in 1860: Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
        Statistics of the United States, (including mortality, property, &c.) in 1860: Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
        Agriculture of the United States in 1860: Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
        Manufactures of the United States in 1860: Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
      • 1870: The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations: Volume 1: Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
        The vital statistics of the United States: Volume II, Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
        The statistics of the wealth and industry of the United States: Volume III: Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
        Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the results of the Ninth Census in 1870 with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government...: Rare Book Room
        A compendium of the Ninth Census (June 1, 1870): Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
      • 1880: Statistics of the Population of the United States : Volume 1: Little Library Census Area, Ground Floor
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    (1817-1980, 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, but all volumes through the mid twentieth century have been digitized.
  • 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
  • The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 70 vols. in 128. Washington, DC: GPO, 1880-1901.
    Government Information Stacks W 45.5
• Periodicals
  Magazines | Newspapers
  • Magazines
    • Guides to & Bibliographies for 19th Century Popular Magazines and Journals
    • Indexes to 19th Century Popular Magazines and Journals
    • 19th Century Popular Magazines & Journals in Little Library
  • Newspapers
    • Indexes to 19th Century Newspapers
    • 19th Century Newspapers in Little Library
    • Newspapers Held by Other Libraries: How to Find Them
• Other Examples
  • American Memory, from the Library of Congress
    Contains a wealth of primary source material for American history, including:
    • Abraham Lincoln Papers
    • African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
    • An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
    • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938
    • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
    • Civil War Maps, 1861-1865
    • A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
    • Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
    • The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
    • First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
    • The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals
    • Selected Civil War Photographs
    • We'll Sing to Abe our Song! Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
  • American Women's History: A Research Guide: Digital Collections of Primary Sources, from the Middle Tennessee State University Library
  • ARTstor
    A collection of over 900,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and the social sciences; covers a wide range of cultures and time periods. Also includes tools to manipulate and analyze the images.
  • The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites. William G. Thomas and Alice E. Carter. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
    Reference R 973.7 T463
  • Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet, from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture, Rare Book, Manuscript, & Special Collections Library, Duke University
  • Digital Library Federation, Public Access Collections
    A large database of online, digital collections created by libraries, archives, and universities across the U.S.
  • 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
  • Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864. John Hay. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1998.
  • Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine. Frank R. Freemon. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1993.
    Reference R 016.973 F872m
    Contains information about primary sources as well as lists of secondary sources.
  • Records of Ante-Bellum Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Ed. Kenneth M. Stampp. Frederick, MD: Univ. Publications of America, 1985.
    Library has:
    • Series A [South Carolina]
      Selections from the South Caroliniana Library, Univ. of South Carolina
      Microfilm cabinet C-31a
      Guide: Reference R 016.975 R311-s Ser. A-C
    • Series B [South Carolina]
      Selections from the South Carolina Historical Society
      Microfilm cabinet C-31a
      Guide: Reference R 016.975 R311-s Ser. A-C
    • Series C [Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina]
      Selections from the Holdings of the Library of Congress
      Microfilm cabinet C-31a
      Guide: Reference R 016.975 R311-s Ser. A-C
    • Series I [Louisiana, Mississippi]
      Selections from the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, Louisiana State Univ. Libraries
      • Part 3: The Natchez Area
        Microfilm cabinets C-31a, C-31aa
        Guide: Reference R 016.975 R311-s Ser. I pts. 1-3
      • Part 4: Barrow, Bisland, Bowman, and other Collections
        Microfilm cabinets C-31a, C-31aa
        Guide: Reference R 016.975 R311-s Ser. I pt. 4
    • Series J [North Carolina, South Carolina]
      Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Dept., Library of the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      • Part 2: Pettigrew Family Papers
        Microfilm cabinets C-31a, C-31aa
        Guide: Reference R 016.975 R311-s Ser. J pt. 2
    To records in other series that the library doesn't own, Consult the online guides to other series
  • Women Writers Online
    Contains the full text of over 200 works written by women in the period 1400-1850.

• 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
      • Confederate States of American history
      • Reconstruction U S History
      • Slavery [name of state]
      • Southern states history
      • United States history 1865-1898
      • United States history civil war 1861-1865
    • 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 38,000 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: To read ebrary books, 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 ?
    • 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 " "
    • 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 ?