Getting Started in the LibraryThis library guide points you in the direction of some basic library resources for completing library assignments and writing research papers in this course. Many of these resources are available from the library's homepage at http://www.lib.ipfw.edu/, so you may want to bookmark both the homepage and this guide.
Here are some resources to get you started:
Gaining an OverviewTo develop and refine your search, it often helps to consult a specialized dictionary, encyclopedia, handbook, textbook, guide, or bibliography. These tools are designed to offer an overview of your topic or research problem written by an expert. They may provide an historical perspective, a chronology of events, definitions of terms or concepts, or bibliographic references leading to the literature in a particular field of study. Many useful reference works are now available online. These handy e-reference collections are accessible via Find Resources By... Subject, Title, or Type on the library's homepage.
Historical Research ProcessWhen conducting historical research: FIRST. Use specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, and textbooks to identify who, what, when, where, how and why.
SECOND. Use the references cited at the end of chapters or articles in textbooks, specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, and guides, and specialized bibliographies to identify the core scholarly research on your topic or research problem.
THIRD. Use databases and indexes to update core scholarly research with current scholarly material.
FOURTH. Identify and obtain as much primary source material as possible. A primary source documents first-hand accounts or first recordings of events. The historian using a number of such primary sources produces a secondary source. Examples of primary source materials include letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, government documents, statistics, photographs, etc. Consult the History librarian for help in locating primary source materials.
Selected Reference Works for this CourseGeneralCredo Reference
- Excellent for American history and world history
- Nearly 300 encyclopedias and other reference works
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Excellent for researching American history
- More than 200 major reference works including encyclopedias, almanacs, directories, and handbooks
Oxford Reference Online Premium
- Excellent place to start research on World history topics
- Provides a single interface for searching more than 20 Oxford encyclopedias and 175 language and subject dictionaries and reference works
American Decades American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 2 vols. (Reference D20 .A55 1995)
Dictionary of American History, 10 vols. (Reference E174 .D52 2003) This authoritative work serves students, scholars, and general readers interested in a wide range of topics in American history, from the well studied and familiar to the obscure.
Encyclopedia of American Social History, 3 vols. (Reference HN57 .E58 1993)
Modern Researcher (Reference LB2369 .B28 1992b)
African AmericansAfrican American Almanac The African American Almanac provides historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture. It also includes a chronology, a chapter of important primary documents, directories of organizations and businesses, a bibliography of recently-published works, annotated lists of crucial court cases, a filmography, hundreds of brief biographies, and more than 650 photographs, illustrations, maps, and statistical charts located within the most appropriate text.
African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience This chronology presents the history of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the present. Includes overview essays, sidebars, and primary sources, and over 200 images that chronicle the story of African Americans' struggles, triumphs, complexity, and exuberance. Features include a comprehensive index and a primary document index; sidebars spotlighting specific people and topics; and a bibliography for each topical chapter.
Afro-American Nationalism: An Annotated Bibliography of Militant Separtist and Nationalist Literature (Reference E185.625)
Black-White Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference E185.61.N39 T57 1998)
Blacks in the American Armed Forces 1776-1983: A Bibliography (Reference E185.63.D38 1985)
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History 6 vols., 2006 The Encyclopedia covers all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces-many by the foremost scholars in the field-it addresses a wide array of subjects in over 2,300 articles to fully define in one source the cultural roots and current condition of the African-American community. Older edition available in the Reference collection Reference E185 .E54 1996.
Malcolm X Encyclopedia (Reference BP223.Z8 L57626 2002)
Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations (Reference E185.5 .O74 2001)
Oxford African American Studies Center Provides more than 7,500 articles by scholars in the field. Also includes 1,000 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 100 maps, and over 100 charts and tables.
W.E.B. Du Bois Encyclopedia (Reference E185.97.D73 W164 2001)
Civil Rights MovementCivil Rights in the United States, 2 vols. (Reference E184.A1 C47 2000)
Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources (Reference E185.61 M93 1993)
Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement (Reference E185.61 .D64 1992)
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present (Reference E185.61 .E54 1992)
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Includes a chronology of major events.
Great DepressionEncyclopedia of the Great Depression This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on Depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society, and culture.
Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression Combining basic facts and background with global perspectives, this set is dedicated to the Great Depression and includes many primary source documents that bring history to life for students. Entries typically include an introduction; issue/incident summary; an exploration of different historical perspectives; a summary of key political, social, and economic influences; a bibliography and sources for further research; and much more.
Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940 (Reference E801 .H57 2001)
Immigration IssuesDictionary of American Immigration History (Reference JV6450 .D53 1990)
Encyclopedia of American Immigration, 4 vols. (Reference JV6465 .E53 2001)
Facts about American Immigration (Reference JV6465 .B73 2001)
New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965 Twenty thematic essays address such topics as immigration law and policy, refugees, unauthorized migrants, racial and ethnic identity, assimilation, nationalization, economy, politics, religion, education, and family relations.
Peopling of America: A Timeline of Events that Helped Shape Our Nation: a Historical Perspective (Reference E184.A1 K842 1994)
LaborLabor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Reference HD5324 .L32 1990)
Profiles of American Labor Unions (Reference HD6504 .P64 1998)
St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide Provides in-depth analysis of more than 300 key events in labor history focusing on the relevance of these events to both the labor movement as a whole and to societal changes around the world.
Working Americans, 1880-2005, 6 vols (HD8066 .D47)
Native AmericansABC-CLIO Companion to the Native American Rights Movement (Reference KF8203.36 .G76 1996)
The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes (Reference E77 .G15 1998)
Handbook of North American Indians Vol 4: History of Indian-White Relations (Reference E77 .H25)
Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia (E76.2 .N36 1994)
Politics: Radical Left to Extreme Right1960s: An Annotated Bibliography of Social and Political Movements in the United States (Reference HN59 .J28 1992)
ABC-Clio Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America (Reference E169.02 .H3515 1997)
Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (Reference E743 .S377 1999)
American Left, 1955-1970: A National Union Catalog of Pamphlets Published in the United States and Canada (Reference HX89 1976)
Communism in the United States: A Bibliography (Reference Z7164 .S67 S38)
Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia 2 vols. (Reference E179 .C66 2003)
Dictionary of American Conservatism (Reference JA84.U5 F55 1987)
Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas, 3 vols. (Reference E183 .E5 1984)
Encyclopedia of American Political Reform (Reference E839.5 .C57 1996)
Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups (Reference HN90.R3 A75 2002)
Encyclopedia of the American Left (Reference HX86 .E58 1990)
Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America. 3 vols. (Reference JK2261 .E474 2000)
From Radical Left to Extreme Right: a Bibliography of Current Periodicals of Protest, Controversy, Advocacy, or Dissent, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, 1967-1987 (Reference JK1 .S55)
Invisible Empire: A Bibliography of the Ku Klux Klan (Reference E668.K8 F54 1980)
Ku Klux Klan: A Bibliography (Reference E668.K8 D38 1984)
Protest, Power, and Change: an encyclopedia of nonviolent action from ACTUP to women's suffrage (Reference HM278 .P76 1997)
Sixties in America, 3 vols. (Reference E841 .S55 1999)
Popular CultureEncyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion A survey of clothing, costume and fashion. Coverage includes the origins of clothing and body adornment, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress, as well as representative costumes from a wide range of historical eras.
Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law (Reference HV7436 .G8783 2002)
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures (Reference E169 .12 .G744 2004)
Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America Covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. The older 2004 edition of this encyclopedia is available in Reference TX349 .E45.
Social Dancing in America: a History and Reference (Reference GV1623 .G56 2007)
War and Peace - GeneralOxford Companion to American Military History Ranging from brief factual pieces to extensive essays, the entries examine every major war from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf and important battles. Also, there are entries on relevant acts of Congress and on diplomatic policies.
Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Guide to military terminology.
War and Peace – Korean WarAmericans at War This unique explains how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. Written by scholars in the fields of history, literature and the arts, sociology, law, political science and psychology, the encyclopedia places major American conflicts -- from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism -- in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the homefront. Articles include biographies and topics such as civil liberties, media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory and national identity, civic celebrations and monumental art, literature, the roles of women and minorities, veterans, science and technology, humor, and music.
Conflict in Korea: An Encyclopedia (Reference DS916 .H62 1999)
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy Essays by subject experts treat concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy, from refugee policies to terrorism and countermeasures. Also includes a chronology.
The Korean War: An Encyclopedia (Reference DS918 .K5645 1995)
War and Peace - Vietnamese ConflictAmericans at War This unique explains how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. Written by scholars in the fields of history, literature and the arts, sociology, law, political science and psychology, the encyclopedia places major American conflicts -- from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism -- in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the homefront. Articles include biographies and topics such as civil liberties, media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory and national identity, civic celebrations and monumental art, literature, the roles of women and minorities, veterans, science and technology, humor, and music.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy Essays by subject experts treat concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy, from refugee policies to terrorism and countermeasures. Also includes a chronology.
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History, 3 vols (Reference DS557.7 .E53 1998)
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (Reference DS557.7 .E53 1996)
Those Who Were There: Eyewitness Accounts of the War in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975 & Aftermath (Reference DS559.5 T46 1984)
Vietnam: A Visual Encyclopedia (Reference DS557.7 .G88 2002)
Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films (Reference DS557.73 .H55 1998)
Vietnam War: An Almanac (Reference DS557.7 .V5663 1985)
Vietnam War Bibliography (Edwin Moise) The best easily accessible Vietnam War bibliography available online.
Vietnam War Films (Reference DS557.73 .V53 1994)
Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict (Reference DS557.7 .W58 1989)
War and Peace - World War I & IIABC Clio Companion to the American Peace Movement in the Twentieth Century (Reference JX1961.U6 L3 1994)
Americans at War This unique explains how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. Written by scholars in the fields of history, literature and the arts, sociology, law, political science and psychology, the encyclopedia places major American conflicts -- from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism -- in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the homefront. Articles include biographies and topics such as civil liberties, media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory and national identity, civic celebrations and monumental art, literature, the roles of women and minorities, veterans, science and technology, humor, and music.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy Essays by subject experts treat concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy, from refugee policies to terrorism and countermeasures. Also includes a chronology.
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 4 vols. (Reference D804.3 .E53 1990)
Encyclopedia of World War II (Reference D740 .E516 2005)
A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History, Supplements I-IV (Reference E181 .M5 G83)
Louis L. Snyder's Historical Guide to World War II (Reference D470 .S65 1982)
Oxford Companion to World War II Every aspect of the war is covered including, detailed surveys of major countries; politics and grand strategy; domestic and economic issues; resistance and intelligence services; campaigns, battles, and military operations; warfare and many more.
Researching World War I: A Handbook (Reference D522.4 .R47 2003)
Who's Who in World War II (Reference D736 .M33 1978)
World War II: A Statistical Survey (Reference D744 .E45 1993)
World War II from an American Perspective: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference D743. W67 1983)
World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath (Reference D767 .W67 1998)
World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas (Reference D743.42 .W67 1997)
Women's Rights MovementChronology of Women's History (Reference HQ1121 .O47 1994)
Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 (Reference HQ1420 .C65 2003)
Encyclopedia of Women's History in America (Reference HQ1410 .C85 1996)
Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers Comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present.
Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History Extensive entries on a wide range of topics from major issues to everyday life and each entry includes reading suggestions.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Women's Progress in America (Reference HQ1410.F76 1994)
Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History (Reference HQ1236.5.U6 W68 1994)
Women's Rights on Trial: 101 Historic Trials from Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute Cadets (Reference KF220.G76 F76 1997)
Searching IUCAT for Books and PeriodicalsSearch IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog), to find books and periodicals (scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and other serials), or library materials such as music CDs, electronic resources, and videos. Materials at the Fort Wayne Helmke Library are designated by the library location FORTWAYNE.
IUCAT searches from on-campus computers will show only materials held by the IPFW Fort Wayne Helmke Library. To search all IU libraries, choose ALL from the Select Library pull-down menu on the search screen.
Sometimes IUCAT will lead you to articles in periodicals, but the most efficient way to locate articles is to use a periodical database or index to search many periodicals simultaneously.
Learning about IUCATSave time in the long run by investing a half-hour with our interactive Searching IUCAT Tutorial. It is an easy way to grasp fundamental search techniques and try your hand at practice searches designed to reinforce your knowledge. Also check our other IUCAT Guides for help in using IUCAT to your best advantage.
Choosing the Type of SearchUse the default Basic Search search option to find important keywords or phrases in an IUCAT record, in any order. Choose this search when you are unsure of the exact author or title of works on your topic.
Choose the Begins With (Browse) option from the box labeled More IUCAT Searches to find words or phrases exactly as typed, letter-for-letter, searching from left to right. Choose this search to find known authors or titles. Step 1. Enter term(s) in Title, Author, or Keywords Anywhere search boxes.
Step 2. Under Library, leave Fort Wayne Helmke Library as default, or change to ALL.
Step 3. Click the Search button.
Keyword Search ExamplesKeywords Anywhere will search for words anywhere in a record. This search is the default when the Enter key is used instead of clicking the button.
Example: iran contra affair
Example: black panther$
Author will search for first or last names in any order in the author fields of a record. Included are personal names, organizations, agencies, corporations, conferences, etc.
Example: hitler adolf [finds works by Adolf Hitler, not works about him]
Title will search for important words in the title. Do not use initial articles: a, the, la, das, etc.
Example: women klan [finds Women of the Klan]
Subject will search for important words in the official Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
Example: relocation and (japanese adj americans)
Finding Periodicals in IUCATStep 1. Choose Periodical Title Search from the box labeled More IUCAT Searches.
Step 2. Enter the periodical title. Choose Keyword or Exact depending on the search you need.
Step 3. Select the correct record from the Search Results screen.
Step 4. In the IUCAT record look for the URL (for Electronic Resources available Online) or Holdings (for printed periodicals) to find what specific years and volumes are available at IUCAT's FORTWAYNE location.
Step 5. When the library owns the printed volumes you need, write down the call number and location. The call number and IUCAT Shelving Locations will help you determine where an item will be shelved in the library. Or if the resource is available online, follow the URL link to the full-text content.
Locating Books and Periodicals in the LibraryBooks, printed periodicals, and other library materials are shelved in Library of Congress Classification (LC) call number order. The call number and IUCAT Shelving Locations will help you determine on which floor of the library an item will be shelved.
Searching for Periodical ArticlesThe most efficient way of finding a high-quality periodical article , is to search a periodical database or index that provides descriptive abstracts, subject indexing, and often, the full-text content of articles. Check out the interactive Finding Articles Tutorial to learn the basics of choosing and searching the Academic Search Premier database. Below is a selection of databases useful for your course. For a complete list, see the library's Find Resources By... page. Select a resource by Subject, Title, or Type (choose Abstracts, Databases, & Indexes).
Databases for this Course
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Coverage: Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1975 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s. |
Brief Description: Provides abstracts and indexing of articles in more than 8,000 popular magazines, scholarly journals, and major newspapers in all fields of study, with nearly 4,000 titles available full text. |
Tools Available: A complete list of titles covered is available. |
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America: History and Life - |
Coverage: 1954 to present |
Brief Description: Bibliographic references with abstracts to journal articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, 1954 to present.Also included are references to book and media reviews and to dissertations. Focus of content is from U.S. journals, but includes international journals covering America. Ninety percent of the articles are in English. |
Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available. |
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Periodicals Archive Online - |
Coverage: 1665 to 1995 |
Brief Description: Periodicals Archive Online Includes the full-text of periodicals in the humanities and social sicences from 1665 through 1995. |
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts - |
Coverage: 1975 to present |
Brief Description: The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of books, dissertations, films, software and international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, labor relations, and public administration/policy. |
Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available. An online database guide is also available. |
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Is Your Article Scholarly or Popular?University instructors often ask students to use articles from scholarly journals rather than from popular magazines for their research assignments. The following Is Your Journal Scholarly? (PDF) summarizes major differences between scholarly journals and popular magazines. Which type of source have you located?
What about Full Text?Full text means that the text of the article is available in PDF or HTML digital format. Graphics and tables are not automatically included unless the database producer has rights to publish them. Many of the library's licensed databases offer the full-text content of periodical articles. IPFW students, faculty, and staff now have access to more than 20,000 full-text journals. Find them in E-Journal Finder.
When an article you need is not available full text in the database you are using, choose  to see all of your delivery options. You may be able to access the full-text content in another database, request the article from another library through Document Delivery Services, or make a photocopy of the article if the printed periodical is owned by Helmke Library.
When a Resource is Not Available in the LibraryRequest Delivery is an IUCAT feature that allows IPFW faculty, students, and staff to request materials held by other Indiana University Libraries and to have them delivered to Helmke Library (see the IUCAT Request Delivery Fact Sheet).
You may also request any item that is not available at Helmke Library through Document Delivery Services (DDS). DDS borrows books and provides photocopies of periodical articles from other library collections. The service is free for IPFW faculty, staff, and students.
Using Government InformationThe U.S. government is an excellent source for primary research materials. Helmke Library has been a selective federal depository for U.S. government publications since 1965, receiving items in the categories of business, the census, commerce, defense history, education, health, justice, foreign affairs, presidential and congressional materials. Many federal government publications are freely available in digital format, and these resources can be accessed using IUCAT Catalog. The library's Public Information Reference Service (PIRS) provides research assistance as well as access to the wealth of local, state, federal, and international government information on the Web. The Allen County Public Library is also a federal depository library.
Primary Source materialsIdentify and obtain as much primary source material as possible. A primary source documents first-hand accounts or first recordings of events. The historian using a number of such primary sources produces a secondary source. Examples of primary source materials include letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, government documents, statistics, photographs, etc. Consult the History librarian for help in locating specific primary source materials.
Examples of Primary Source Materials for this courseContemporaneous News AccountsFace the Nation, 17 vols. (3rd Floor E743.C59 1954-74) The collected transcripts from the CBS radio and television broadcasts. Index for 1954-1970 bound separately and shelved in the reference collection (Reference E743 .C59)
Historical New York Times
Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, PapersLocating an ArchiveWorldCat is a researcher's strongest tool in locating an archive for a historical figure or topic. This database includes the records from the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Search by author or subject in WorldCat and then in the search results select the Archival tab to view relevant collections of papers and manuscripts. Click here to view search results example
Black Thought and Culture
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (Stacks DS559.5 .D43 1985)
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 vols. (Stacks E185.97.K5 A2 1992)
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, 1929 to present (Stacks J80 .A283)
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Government DocumentsCivil Rights Legislation: Cases and Materials (Reference KF4748 .E4 1996)
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: National Security Archive Documents Reader (Reference E841 .C845 1992)
Digital National Security Archive
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: hearings before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, 26 vols. (Government Publications PR 36.8:K 38/H35/)
LexisNexis Congressional
November 22, 1963: A Reference Guide to the JFK Assassination (Reference E842.9 .S37 1999)
United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A comprehensive bibliography, 2 vols (Reference Z7964.U49 H85 1993)
Watergate Investigation Index: House Judiciary Committee Hearings and Report on Impeachment (Reference KF27 .J8 1974e suppl. 4)
Statistics and SurveysGallup Poll: Public Opinion 1935 to present (Reference HN90.P8 G17)
Statistical Record of Black America (Reference E185.5 .S7 1993)
Searching the InternetFor some information needs, the Internet may supplement library resources. To begin an Internet search, try one of the many search engines on our Internet Search site. One that works well is Google, which ranks results by number of links leading to a site. The section on Subject-Oriented Tools includes directories that have evaluated and selected sites for specific subject areas, such as the Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Because the World Wide Web is a massive, tangled directory of knowledge producers, research, facts, and entertaining tidbits of information, you must be critical about the material you find there. Quality and validity are not assured when anyone can publish anything, anytime, without the benefit of scholarly peer review. There are many useful guides and tutorials to help you understand how to navigate and evaluate Web sites, including Is Your Web Site Credible?
Finding Internet sites for this CourseThe Internet has become a useful place to locate primary and secondary source material. However, each Web site needs to be evaluated for its quality. The library's Judging Sources: Is your Web site Credible? provides a checklist for determining the validity of a Web site for your research needs.
American and British History Resources on the Internet Sponsored by Rutgers University the goal of this site is to provide a searchable structure for the scholarly resources of American and British history available on the Internet. Categories include reference sources, history gateways and text sites, titles by historic period, archival and manuscript guides, and other net resources.
WWW-VL: History: United States this site is the largest index to history Internet sources.
Digital Archives for this CourseWhile the WWW is not useful as a general research tool for secondary scholarly literature, it is becoming an excellent source for digitized collections of primary source material.
GeneralAmerican Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library American Memory consists of collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School provides documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
National Archives provides online indexes to the print and digitized collections.
Presidential Libraries System Provides a link to the presidential libraries from Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush. The FDR Library includes access to 10,000 digitized documents.
Special CollectionsThe Atomic Bomb and the end of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources Created by the National Security Archive (NSA), this site contains approximately 80 internal, declassified documents regarding the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan.
Black Panther Party Research Project Academic site designed to provide information for individuals who want to locate primary and secondary sources about the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
CIA Electronic Reading Room provides declassified documents concerning the Bay of Pigs, POW/MIAs,Guatemala, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Francis Gary Powers (U-2 Spy Pilot Shot Down by the Soviets), and UFO's.
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) The CWIHP disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources from the former Communist world.
Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath, 1961-1963 Is a collection of foreign relations papers available from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
Documents from the Womens Liberation Movement: An Online Archival Collection (Duke University) The materials in this online archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
Harlem History This site, created by Columbia University, includes information on "Arts and Culture," "The Neighborhood," and "Politics." It is a valuable resource for those interested in African American culture and political activism.
FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room After 1975 many FBI files became open to the public. Thousands of pages of documents have been scanned and made available on the FBI’s Web site. These include files on such groups and persons as, Aryan Brotherhood, Black Panther Party, Wallace D. Fard (founder of the Black Muslim movement), Ku Klux Klan, Muhammad Elijah, Posse Comitatus, Weatherman Underground.
The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University This site contains a Multimedia Study Environment, oral histories, and, most importantly, an index to 4000 pages of FBI files on Malcolm X.
New Deal Network A research and teaching resource devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. At the core of NDN is a database of more than 3,000 photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the Depression and New Deal period). Includes an excellent annotated list of online resources for teachers and students.
The Nizkor Project -- dedicated to refuting Holocaust denial, this site offers the Nuremberg Trial proceedings in searchable form, as well as other documents on the Final Solution.
President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Reference System is an electronic index to many (but not all) documents from the JFK Assassination Records Collection in the National Archives. The database was last updated on December 23, 1998, and currently contains 178,422 records.
Radical America, 1967-1999 Radical America was a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazine long outlived its seedbed. Its trajectory shows something about the effort to place an intellectual stamp on the radical impulses of the late twentieth century.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture A column of the New York Public Library, the Schomburg Center for Research provides on-line access to documents, artifacts, art, photographs, moving pictures, and many other resources that deal directly with African American culture and race.
Sixties Project Web Site Designed by the New World Order, this website provides a number of resources specifically for scholars, including online back issues of the Vietnam Generation Journal, bibliographic material, filmographies, primary documents, and course syllabi.
Virtual Vietnam Archive The Virtual Vietnam Archive maintained by Texas Tech University is a project to digitize all of the non-copyright material in the Vietnam Archive.
The Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975 This site, developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College, offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents. Brigham was the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi. Included here are his translations of some of the Hanoi documents, offered for examination and study.
Whitehousetapes.org The Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has made available about 5000 hours of recordings of US presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. Documents can be accessed through both print and audio, and include materials on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, and the space race.
Women Working, 1800-1930 (Harvard University Library) Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images.
The World War I Document Archive This site provides access to many primary documents, including treaties, conventions, and personal memoirs.
World War II Resources maintained by Purdue University provides access to primary source materials on the Web regarding all aspects of the war.
Style Guides and Useful Tools for WritingA variety of style guides are on reserve at the Service Desk on the first floor. These tools help you organize and write your paper, and format in-text references and bibliography lists. For more information, also see our Style, Publishing, & Writing Guides.
Style guides for this CourseThe style manual recommended for this course is The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2003. The latest edition is located at the library's Service Desk (Reference Z253 .U69 2003). Samples of citations are available on the Web.
And Finally, Ask a LibrarianLibrarians and skilled information assistants are always available to assist you. Visit the Service Desk to meet an information assistant who will help you get started. You are welcome to make an appointment with Your Subject Librarian if you need more in-depth assistance.
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tritts@ipfw.edu
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
260-481-6513
Fax: 260-481-6509
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Summer Tritt M.L.S.
Reference & Information Services Librarian; Liaison to History, Political Science; Government Documents Coordinator
Helmke Library, LB 158 |
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C. Truesdell, C. Hoppe |
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2007-1-11 |
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L. Agne |
| Date revised: |
2009-01-27, 2008-12-10, 2008-1-10 |
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