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Books

1) Use Scotty, the Library's online catalog to identify books by topic, title or author OR  to identify if the Library owns particular journals. Scotty does not include articles. 

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  • Search by keyword for materials on a particular topic.   
    Example: foreign opinion and revolution and united states

  • Use *  to retrieve variations of a word:    
    Example:   symbol*  (will retrieve symbols, symbolic, symbolism) 

  • Refine using Subject Headings. 
    Example: Keyword search ~   black* and american revolution
    Example: Subject Headings:  United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- African Americans. 

You can also find primary sources using Scotty by combining your keywords with one or more of the following "primary source keywords."  

Example:  quakers and diaries        

Primary Source Keywords
Autobiographies Correspondence Description and Travel Diary or diaries Early works to _____	Interviews Letters Oral Histories Pamphlets Personal Narratives	Pictorial works Songs and Music Sources Speeches

  
2) Try MELVYL to search collections of UCR, the UC system, and libraries worldwide.

3) Use REQUEST to order materials UCR does not own  through Interlibrary Loan. Receipt may take 3-8 days.

Guides to the Literature:
Resources which identify standard works and major writings in a discipline

 

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Reference Sources in History	Ref Z6201 F72 2004
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature	Ref Z6201 A55 1995
Harvard Guide to American History	Ref Z1236 F77 1974
Handbook for Research in American History	Ref Z1236 P78 1994

Bibliographies:
Listings of articles and books on specific subjects

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Bibliographies can be published as standalone books, or found at the end of articles and books/book chapters.  To find books, find the appropriate subject with the subdivision BIBLIOGRAPHY.   
Example:  United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Bibliography.  

Books on early American history and culture, 1991-1995 : an annotated bibliography	Z1237. I79 2000
Maps and charts published in America before 1800: a bibliography	Map Ref Z6027 .A5 W68
Revolutionary America 1763-1789	Ref Z1238 G43 1984
Bibliography of the Public Archives of the Thirteen Original States	Ref. Z1237 H38 1908

Reference Works   

 

Women in early America : struggle, survival, and freedom in a  new  world	Ref HQ1416 .M395 2004
Historical dictionary of the early American republic	Ref E301 .B79 2006
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution : library of military history	Ref E208 .E63 2006
Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War	Ref E208 .E64 2006
Encyclopedia Of the New American Nation	Ref E301 .E53 2006
American Diaries, Vol. 1: 1492-1844	Ref Z5305 .U5 A74 1983
American National Biography

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Historiography
The study of the way history has been and is written--the history of historical writing.

To locate a historiography on your topic, find the appropriate subject with the subdivision  HISTORIOGRAPHY.  Example:  United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Historiography.

Messy beginnings : postcoloniality and early American studies	E188.5 .M39 2003
Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing	Ref D14 E58 1999
Reader's guide to American history	Ref E178.1 R43 1997
Politics of history : writing the history of the American Revolution, 1783-1815	E209 .S5

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Journal Articles, Book Reviews, Book chapters   

America: History & Life - Scholarly articles, reviews, dissertations, and collections in US and Canadian history from pre-history to present, most with abstracts and some full-text; 1964-present.
          - allows limiting by time period (century or decade)
          - includes book reviews 
          - can browse these fields 
          -  to check holdings 
  
JSTOR The Scholarly Journal Archive  - digitized archives of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Note: JSTOR is not a current issues database - it does not include the past 1-5 years.  
           - can search or browse by discipline/journal titles 
           - searches the entire article for keywords unless you limit  
           - includes book reviews Primary Sources  Colonial Newspapers:

 

Arts & Humanities Citation Index - Articles in the arts and humanities; plus citation searching for articles that cite known authors or works, most with abstracts; 1975-present. 
           - use initials for author's first names 
           - can search by cited author 
           - multi-disciplinary 
           - abstracts for works 2000 forward 
           -  to check holdings 

 

Online: 

Early American Imprints, Series I 1639-1800 Eighteenth Century Collections Online Early Encounters in North America, 1534-1850  (letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts) North American Women's Letters and Diaries Dolley Madison Digital Edition: Letters 1788 - June 1836 American Drama, 1714-1915 American Poetry, 1600-1900 Colonial Connecticut Records [1636-1776] ... American Memory Collection via Library of Congress OurDocuments.gov

Microfilm:

 

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Colonial Periodicals

Early American newspapers, Series I. (1690-1876)
See Colonial and Early American Newspapers for specific titles.
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800) - this is on the CD-ROM Network, not the internet!

Also guides to newspapers:  

Early American Newspapers	Ref Z6947 R4 1978
History and Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820	Ref Z6951 B75 1947
Chronological Tables of American Newspapers	Ref Z6951 L35

 

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American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900

Also guides to colonial periodicals:  

History of American Magazines

Ref PN4877 M68

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