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Background
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Books
|
Bibliographies | Articles
| Primary
Sources
| Citing
Sources
Reference
Desk Hours| Blackboard
for HST280
FIND
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Use
scholarly encyclopedias and handbooks, such as those below, for an overview
of your topic and a list of suggested readings:
| Reference
Source |
Reference
Call Number |
| Encyclopedia
of American Cultural and Intellectual History. |
ref
E 169.1 .E624 2001 |
| Encyclopedia
of American Immigration. |
ref JV 6465 .E53 2001 |
Encyclopedia
of American Social History.
|
ref
HN 57 .E58 1993 |
| Encyclopedia
of the United States in the Twentieth Century. |
ref
E 740.7 .E53 1996 |
ABC-CLIO
Companion to the American Labor Movement.
|
ref
HD 6508 .T39 1993 |
| Encyclopedia
of African-American Culture and History. |
ref
E 185 .E54 1996 |
| Encyclopedia
of Nationalism. |
ref JC 311 .E52 2001 |
| Encyclopedia
of the American Military. |
ref
UA 23 .E56 1994 |
| Encyclopedia
of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. |
ref E 184 .M5 M458 2000 |
| Gale
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. |
ref
E 184 .A1 G14 2000 |
| Gale
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. |
ref
E 77 .G15 1998 |
| Grove
Art Online. |
click
here |
| Grove
Music Online. |
click
here |
| Harvard
Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. |
ref
E 184.A1 H35 |
| Work
in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society. |
ref
HD 8066 .W637 2003 |
FIND
BOOKS
5
College Library Catalog
Note
that the "correct" subject heading isn't always obvious. If
a subject search doesn't work, try a keyword search to find a few relevant
titles. Then click on the subject headings on those relevant titles to
conduct a more comprehensive subject search. Remember that the catalog
is split into two databases: 4-College
and UMass. Sample subject
headings:
Examples:
| Keyword:
|
Subject: |
| Chinese
immigrant communities |
Chinese
Americans |
| Israeli-Palestinian
conflict |
Arab-Israeli
conflict |
| US
Mexico borderlands |
Mexican-American
border region |
| US
military bases |
Military
bases, American - Japan - Okinawa |
Often
there are multiple ways to search the same general topic:
| Arab-Israeli
conflict |
Israelis
United States |
| Israel
- Emigration and immigration |
Palestinian
Arabs |
|
Israelis [place] e.g.: |
Palestinian
Arabs United States |
| Israelis
New York |
|
WorldCat
Use
WorldCat to expand your search for books, theses, etc. beyond the Five-College
area. Watch for items that are owned by only one library: such unique
material is often not obtainable via interlibrary loan. If you plan to
use interlibrary
loan to request books and theses, please allow at least 2 weeks for
delivery.
A
SAMPLING OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Bibliographies
list published research (and sometimes primary source material) on a topic.
Watch for the words "bibliography," "indexes," or
"abstracts" as you search by subject in the 5-College Library
Catalog. (Example: Women-Employment-United States-Bibliography.):
| Reference
Source |
Reference
Call Number |
American
Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. v. 2
(If you're overwhelmed by the number of books on your topic, use this
to help you identify the best ones!)
|
ref
D 20 .A55 1995 |
| Affirmative
Action. |
ref
HF 5549.5 .A34 N67 1996 |
| AIDS
Crisis in America: A Reference Handbook. |
ref
RA 644 .A25 H655 1998 |
| Asian
American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide. |
ref
E 184 .O6 K56 1989 |
Autobiographies
by Americans of Color 1980-1994:
supplement, 1995-2000: |
ref
CT 220 .S78 1997
ref CT 220 .S78 2003 |
| Discrimination
and Prejudice: An Annotated Bibliography. |
E
184 .A1 D57 1992 |
| Ethnic
Minority Health. |
sci
ref RA 448.4 .H39 1997 |
| Foreign
and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1930. |
ref
HQ 1410 .W43 1986 |
| Gender
and Racial Images/Stereotypes in the Mass Media. |
ref
P 96 .S5 N67 2001 |
| Housing
and Racial/Ethnic Minority Status in the United States. |
ref
HD 7288.72 .U5 M64 1987 |
|
Immigrant Experience. |
ref
E 184 .A1 M334 1991 |
| Immigrant
Experience in American Fiction. |
ref
PS 374 .I48 S56 1995 |
| Inequities
in American Education: Race, Class and Gender Issues. |
ref
LC 212.2 .N67 2002 |
|
Irish Experience in New York City: A Select Bibliography. |
E
130 .I6 S53 1995 |
| Japan. |
ref
DS 806 .S475 1989 |
| Projecting
Ethnicity and Race: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies on Imagery
in American Film. |
ref
PN 1995.9 .M56 H34 2003 |
| Race
and Crime: An Annotated Bibliography. |
ref
HV 6197 .U5 R87 2000 |
| Racism
in Contemporary America. |
ref
E 185.61 .W36 1996 |
| Recent
Immigration from Latin America: Social, Economic and Political Aspects. |
ref
E 184 .S75 N678 1995 |
| Sioux
and Other Native American Cultures of the Dakotas: An Annotated Bibliography. |
E
99 .D1 H66 1993 |
|
Substance Abuse among Ethnic Minorities in America. |
ref
HV 5825 .S8 1992 |
| Women
Immigrants 1945 to the Present: A Bibliography. |
click
here |
FIND
ARTICLES
The
major database for American history:
America,
History and Life. [Use this if you're working on a historical topic.
Lists articles, book reviews, collections, and dissertations; some full-text]
Other
possibilities (for current issues):
Academic
Search Premier (EBSCO) [Interdisciplinary; much full-text]
Art
Abstracts [some full-text]
Contemporary
Women's Issues [Some full-text]
Ethnic
News Watch [Full-text]
GenderWatch
[Full-text]
Humanities
Abstracts [Try for art and music topics; some full text]
IBSS:
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences [Covers economics,
sociology, political science, and anthropology]
Lexis-Nexis
Academic [For laws, cases, legal news and analysis, and full-text
articles from national and regional newspapers]
Music
Index Online
PAIS
International [Especially good for public policy issues]
Social
Sciences Abstracts [Covers core economics, sociology, political science,
and anthropology journals; some full-text]
Sociological
Abstracts
Women's
Studies International
Recommended
Aggregators/Full-Text Sources:
J-STOR
Full-text articles from major history journals, among other disciplines.
Coverage lags ca.3 years behind printed version of the journal.
Project
Muse
Full-text articles from major history journals, among other disciplines.
Coverage limited to issues from the past 2-3 years.
LOCATING
PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL AND INTERNET LINKS
- In
addition to the primary source material available in the Sophia Smith
Collection and College Archives, there is an abundance of primary source
material in Neilson Library.
- Use
secondary literature for leads on primary sources.
- The
form your primary source material takes will vary from topic to topic.
It may be a diary, correspondence, or personal writings; newspaper accounts
or editorials; or the records of an organization or religious body.
It may be a law, court case, treaty, or other legal document. For some
topics, there will be compilations of significant documents.
- As
you search the online catalog; watch for the words "diaries,"
"personal narratives," "interviews," "correspondence,"
and "sources" as part of the subject headings. Other clues
may be buried in the title, authorship, date of publication, etc.
- Click
here for examples.
INTERNET
LINKS
Adopting
from Korea
American
Indian Movement
AFL-CIO
Frontera
NorteSur [Provides on-line news coverage of the US-Mexico border]
Immigration
[part of Library of Congress's American Memory project]
Mexican
Immigration [part of Library of Congress's American Memory project]
Inter-American
Water Resources Network
The
Life of a Maquiladora Worker
National
Italian American Foundation
Nuyorican
Poets Cafe
Okinawa
Prefecture
Organization
of Chinese Americans
Palestinian
Diaspora and Refuge Centre
U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services
World
Water Council
EVALUATING
AND CITING SOURCES
Evaluating
internet resources (Univ. of Maryland)
Jacobsen
Center: Writing Services
Style
Manuals & Citation Guides
Landmarks
Citation Machine [does not cover all citation styles and possibilities;
use it in a pinch, but rely on the two sites listed above for more detailed
and reliable results.]
REFERENCE
DESK HOURS
Monday
through Thursday:
9 a.m. - 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday:
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday
- Sunday:
1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
CONTACT
THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
Contact
Pamela Skinner, the instructor for your library session: pskinner@email.smith.edu
CONNECT
TO HST280 WEB SITE
Use
your Student ID number to login to Blackboard to access course documents
and communication tools: HST280
EXAMPLES
OF PRIMARY SOURCES
| Source |
Call
Number |
| Aloud:
Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. |
PS 591 .P8 A46 1994 |
America's
Working Women : A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present.
|
HD
6095 .A662 1995 |
| At
the River I Stand. [Documentary of two 1968 events
in the civil rights movement-- the sanitation workers strike in Memphis,
Tennessee and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] |
MH
video HD 5325 .S2572 1968 M46 1993 |
|
Ausonia Club (Northampton, Mass.) Records, 1929-1993. [Minutes;
financial records; memorabilia; correspondence; and records pertaining
to prizes awarded by the club. They relate primarily to the club's
mission of preserving Italian traditions in America, offering support
to newly arrived women immigrants, and promoting an interest in Italian
language and culture among the citizenry of Northampton.] |
Sophia
Smith Collection MS 384 |
| Ausonia
Club Oral History Project, 1965-1987. [The collection
includes interviews of the six Ausonia Club members and others. Founded
in 1921 by Smith College Italian professor, Anacleta Vezzetti, the
purpose of the Ausonia Club was to bring together Italian-American
immigrant women, many of whom were mill workers, to keep alive Italian
traditions, language, and culture, and to help members meet the challenges
of living in the United States.] |
Sophia
Smith Collection MS 412 and finding
aid |
| Between
the Lines: Letters between Undocumented Mexican and Central American
Immigrants and their Families and Friends. |
E 184 .M5 B49 1992 |
| The
Chinese in California, 1850-1925. |
click
here |
| "Chink!"
A Documentary History of Anti-Chinese Prejudice in America. |
Amherst
E 184 .C5 W74 1972 |
| Collection
of Flyers and Other Materials Distributed in Connection with Strikes
of Agricultural Workers In and Around Delano, Calif. |
Amherst
College Archives x HD 5325.A29 A2 |
|
Deadly Consequences of Illegal Alien Smuggling: Hearing before
the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the
Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives... 2003. |
click
here |
| Final
Report of the Commission on Immigration Reform: Hearing before the
Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary....
1997. |
us
doc Y 4.J 89/1:105/82 |
| First
Person Plural. [A personal and political film
about the filmmaker's experiences being adopted from South Korea and
raised by an American family.] |
reserve
E 184 .K6 F578 1999 |
|
Fox, Stephen C. The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the
Relocation of Italian Americans during World War II. |
D 769.8 .A6 F66 1990 |
| From
Shore to Shore: Irish traditional music in New York City. [Examines
the New York City traditional Irish dance music community through
multiple interviews and performances and presents the influences of
family, community, immigration, and American popular culture on the
traditional music played in New York today.] |
Hampshire
video 1399 |
| García,
Mario T. Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of
Bert Corona. |
HD 8037 .C67 G37 1994 |
| Hart,
Dianne Walta. Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story. [interviews
with Nicaraguans in LA] |
F 869 .L89 N53 1997 |
| I
Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers
of Ae Ran Won to their Children. |
HV 875.58 .K6 I22 1999 |
| The
Irish came to Lowell: Journalists' Observations of 19th Century Irish
in Lowell, Massachusetts. |
Mount
Holyoke F 74 .L9 I85 1985 |
| Keyso,
Ruth Ann. Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island. |
multicultural
HQ 1764 .O44 K48 2000 |
|
Krause, Corinne Azen. Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters: Oral
Histories of Three Generations of Ethnic American Women.
[inteviews with Jewish-, Italian- and Slavic-American women] |
HQ 1439 .P58 K73 1991 |
| Means,
Russell. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell
Means. |
E
99 .O3 M386 1995 |
| Nuyorican
Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings. |
Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke PS 591 .P8 N8 |
| Nuyoricans.
[This program takes listeners through the Puerto Rican
neighborhoods of El Barrio, the Bronx, and the Lower East Side, with
a stop at the landmark Nuyorican Poets' Cafe.] |
Amherst
cassette 59 |
| Pearlman,
Wendy. Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second
Intifada. |
Amherst
DS 119.765 .P43 2003 |
| Peltier,
Leonard. Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance. |
E
99 .O3 P45 1999 |
| Testimonio:
A Documentary History of the Mexican American Struggle for Civil Rights. |
Amherst
E 184 .M5 R638 2000 |
| Unbound
Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. |
multicultural
F 869 .S39 C597 1999 |
| United
States. Treaty, Laws, and Rules Governing the Admission of Chinese.
Rules of May 1, 1917. |
325.73
Un37 1917 |
| United
States. General Accounting Office. Overseas Presence: Issues Involved
in Reducing the Impact of the U.S. Military Presence in Okinawa. |
us
doc GA1.13 NSIAD 98-66 |
| United
States Code Congressional and Administrative News. [texts
of public laws, with legislative histories] |
K
.U572 |
Women
of Hope: Latinas Abriendo Camino: 12 Ground Breaking Latina Women.
[videorecording;Uses interviews, news and archival
film, music and literature to show prominent Hispanic American women.]
|
Mount
Holyoke videotape E 184 .S75 W66 1996 |
| Wop!
: A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination in the United
States. |
E 184 .I8 L35 1999 |
| Voices
in Exile: Immigrants and the First Amendment. [Follows
the case of eight Palestinian immigrants in Los Angeles who were arrested
for distributing PLO literature. The case involved the FBI, the INS,
and the ACLU.] |
Amherst
video KF 4772 .V6 |
|
Zhao, Jianli. Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their
Community, and Stories of their Lives. [interviews] |
Mount
Holyoke F 294 .A89 C59 2002 |
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