Selected
Sources for
HISTORY
494—Jacksonian Era
March 2,
2005
Gail
Egbers
535-8869 egbersgl@plu.edu
FINDING BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to the
materials in our library. Use the Library of Congress Subject
Headings (large red books near catalog) to identify the best subject
headings for your topic. Subject headings relevant to your topic
include:
Jackson, Andrew,
1767-1845
Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions
Transcendentalism (New England)
State rights
Women’s rights -- United States – History
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
Finney, Charles Grandison, 1792-1875
Trail of Tears, 1838
Mexican War, 1846-1848
United States -- Territorial expansion
United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
Indians of North
America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869
Revivals -- United
States -- History -- 19th century
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 (ref.Z1236.A48) A complete bibliographic reference to the
history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
EBSCO (via
PLU Library’s Website) A multi-disciplinary database that indexes
roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in
full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer
reviewed) publications. This academic database provides full text
journal coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social
sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.
Humanities
Index 1974-1998(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.
JSTOR an archival
database with 117 core scholarly journals in the arts, social sciences,
sciences and 7 general science journals starting with the very first
issues, many of which date from the 1800s and some even to the 1600s.
JSTOR provides the full text (in PDF format) of all journal content.
You can retrieve specific articles, browse individual journals, or
search by topic. As this is an archival service, current issues
(usually the latest 3 to 5 years) are NOT available.
ProQuest (via Library Website) Provides access to
several newspapers including the New
York Times back to 1851.
WorldCat (via Library Website) Worldwide online
catalog of books and other materials available in OCLC member
libraries. To find primary sources, limit to archival materials.
| LOCATING
PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodicals are arranged according
to
the Library of Congress classification system. Use Journals at PLU
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. Journals at PLU
also gives you access to
the full-text journals we have online. |
REFERENCE MATERIALS
ABC-CLIO
companion to women’s progress in America (ref. HQ1410.F76 1994)
American
musical traditions (ref.
ML3551.A53 2002) v. 2. African American music
Atlas
of American religion: the denominational era, 1776-1990 (ref. BR515.N49 2000)
Cherokees,
a critical bibliography (ref.
Z1210.C46F64)
Dictionary
of Afro-American slavery (ref.
E441.D53 1988)
Documents
of American Indian diplomacy: treaties, agreements, and conventions,
1775-1979 (ref. KF8202 1999)
Encyclopedia
of American religious history
(ref. BL2525.Q44 2001)
Encyclopedia
of religious controversies in the United States (ref. BR515.E53 1997)
Encyclopedia
of the American religious experience: studies of traditions and
movements (ref.
BL2525.E53 1988)
Historical
atlas of religion in America
(ref. G1201.E4G3 1976)
Historical
guide to world slavery (ref.
HT861.H59 1998)
Lewis
& Dryden’s marine history of the Pacific Northwest (ref. VK23.W8)
Resources
of American music history: a directory of source materials from
Colonial times to World War II (ref.
ML120.U5R47)
Women’s
studies encyclopedia (ref.
HQ1115.W645 1989)
OTHER INTERSTING
SOURCES
Jacksonian
persuasion (VIDEO E178.A45
vol. 17)
Manifest
destiny (VIDEO E178.A45 vol.
19)
INTERNET RESOURCES
Age
Of Jackson 1830-1857
(http://www.delhi.edu/faculty/schleial/jackson.htm)
American
Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection (http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/)
American
Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html)
American
Women's History: A Research Guide (http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html)
Antebellum
South (http://www.historyteacher.net/AHAP/Weblinks/AHAP_Weblinks11.htm)
Avalon
Project (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm)
Columbia
River Basin Ethnic History Archive (http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/browse.htm)
Coming
of War 1850-1859 (http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/civwar.htm#E)
Documenting
the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/)
From
Revolution to Reconstruction (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/#1826)
Making
of America (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/)
National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (http://www.archives.gov/index.html)
United
States History: Primary Sources Online (http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/reference/bibl/hist.html)
Washington
State Pioneer Life Database (http://content.lib.washington.edu/pioneerlifeweb/index.html)
PLU
Libraries Web Resources--History
(http://www.plu.edu/~libr/web/history.html)
BEYOND PLU
PLU's library may not own all of the
materials you want to use. You may either order them from
Interlibrary Loan or go to a local library personally. We are
part of a consortium of libraries that includes: Northwest
University, St. Martin's College, University of Puget Sound, Seattle
Pacific University, and Seattle University. You may use your PLU
ID card to check out materials from these libraries. If you wish
to order from Interlibrary Loan, be sure to allow sufficient time for
the materials to arrive.
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