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History 121A : African American History to 1877
Getting Started || Cruzcat: Identifying Subject Headings || Reference Books || Electronic Resources || Websites || Maps
Use the Library's Research page as your point of departure.
Before starting your search, take a look at the "How to Get Started" page.
Especially useful for this assignment are the sections on evaluating information on the web, distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and citations styles.
In order to have off-campus access to all of the library licensed resources that will be useful for this assignment, make sure that you follow the instructions on how to connect to the library from home.
Read the assignment/syllabus carefully, and underline the terms you want to look up: the trick to finding library resources is knowing which words to search for.
For this particular class, I might start with these terms from the syllabus:
We’ll start with Cruzcat, then work our way into the full text and bibliographic electronic databases, and then move outwards to the web.
The better defined your search vocabulary, the better chance you have of finding information on the web.
USING CRUZCAT
A keyword search is probably the easiest way to get started. Once you find some titles that are useful, click on the Library of Congress subject headings to search further.
For example, take a look at the titles that your professor has put on reserve and make note of the subject headings for these works.
For this assignment, the following subject headings might be useful--they are just a sample of relevant subject headings that you might want to look at:
Sample Subject Headings
Once you have found some useful titles, you need to look at the books and also browse the shelves, both in the Reference area and upstairs in the regular stacks.
Listed below are the books found in McHenry Reference that were discussed in our Library session:
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Call Number |
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
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DT14 .A37435 2005 |
The African studies companion : a guide to information sources
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DT19.8 .Z45 2003 |
The African studies companion [electronic resource] : a guide to information sources
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DT19.8 .Z45 2003eb |
Pan-African chronology : a comprehensive reference to the Black quest for freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia
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E185.18 .J46 1996 |
Chronology of African-American history : significant events and people from 1619 to the present
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E185.H64 1991 |
The New York public library African American desk reference
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E185 .N49 1999 |
The atlas of African-American history and politics : from the slave trade to modern times
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E185 .S574 1998 |
Encyclopedia of African American history 1619-1895 : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass
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E185 .E545 2006. |
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas
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E185 .E54 2006 |
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history [electronic resource] : the Black experience in the Americas
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N/A |
Encyclopedia of African American society
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E185 .E546 2005 |
| Encyclopedia of African American society [electronic resource] | N/A |
Once you have browsed the print reference materials, you will be better prepared for searching the electronic databases. Some of the databases listed below contain bibliographic citatations, others contain full-text.
Full text resources:
Bibliographic databases:
OUTSIDE the UC SYSTEM – On the Web:
General Websites (African and African American History):
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