Selected Sources for
HISTORY 360
January 17, 2001
Gail Egbers
535-8869   egbersgl@plu.edu

FINDING BOOKS: Because this is a topic that has been widely documented, you will find a wealth of information in our library.  Start with QUEST, our computerized catalog, which provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (large red books near QUEST) to identify the best subject headings for your topic. You will be most successful using specific headings.  Subject headings relevant to your topic include:
 
 

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes
Antisemitism – Germany
Holocaust (Christian theology
Genocide -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
 


FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

America:  History and Life  1964-1996 (Index area ref.Z1235.A48  );  Part A, Article abstracts and citations; Part B, Index to book reviews   Part C, American history bibliography, books, articles and dissertations  Part D, Annual Index .  Covers United States and Canadian History.

Historical abstracts 1955-1996 (Index area ref.D299.H5)
Covers non-American history.  Companion to America:  History & Life.

Humanities Index 1974+(Index Area ref.AI3.R51 and via FirstSearch) ( Before 1974, part of Social Sciences and Humanities Index and International Index)Indexes scholarly journals in the humanities, including history, literature, art, religion, and philosophy.

Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (Index Area  ref.AI3.R48)
A general index that covers many popular magazines.  Would be useful to find contemporary articles on the Holocaust

New York Times (AN2.N4) & Times (AN4.T5)
PLU owns these newspapers on microfilm for hundreds of years.  You might want to pull copies from the time and read the news as it was being reported.
 
 
 
LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.  Use Journals at PLU  (http://www.library.plu.edu/journals/) to identify the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in the main collection on the second and third floors.

 
 
 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Bibliography on Holocaust literature (ref.Z6374.H6E33 1986)

Encyclopedia of Judaism (ref.BM50.E63 1999)

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (ref.D804.3.E53 1990)

Historical atlas of the Holocaust (ref.G1797.21.E29H5 1996)

Historical dictionary of the Holocaust  (ref.D804.25.F57 1999)

History of the Holocaust : a handbook and dictionary (ref.D804.3.E33 1994)

Macmillan atlas of the Holocaust (ref.G1797.21.E29G48 1982)
 

VIDEOS
 

Judaism : the religion of a people (VIDEO BM561.J83x 1994)

Last days (VIDEO D804.3.L37 1998)

Master Race (VIDEO D421.P46 1998 vol. 9)

Memory of water (VIDEO PN1997.M46 1996)

Nazis, a warning from history (VIDEO DD253.25.N39 1997)

Schindler's list (VIDEO PN1997.S35x 1994)
 

INTERNET

The Internet should not be the first place you go to search but it can  contain some helpful things.  There are web sites for the different Holocaust museums and some primary documents are online.  It would be useful to start by looking at our print sources, finding the names of possible documents, and then looking for them online.  The PLU Library does have a web page dedicated to Holocaust studies (http://www.plu.edu/~libr/web/holocaust.html) that links to many good sites.
 
 
If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.

 


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