Race, Gender and Citizenship

Course Number:

HST 292

Instructor:

Bredbenner

Starting Points

America: History & Life

Indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. (EbscoHost)

JSTOR

Full-text access to Full-text searching of an archive of over 165 history and 58 law journals. Typically excludes the latest 3-5 years of publication.

HeinOnline

Full-text access to over 1200 law and law-related journals and a wide range of primary legal documents.

Articles & eResources

In addition to the databases in the "Starting Points" list, be sure to give these databases a try. Those marked as EbscoHost databases can be searched simultaneously by going to the EbscoHost page and selecting the databases you wish to search.

Academic Search Complete

A great database for any topic, this database indexes over 5,600 journals, with full-text access for 4,600. (EbscoHost)

CQ Electronic Library

CQ Almanac back to 1945 plus Historic Documents back to 1972 and CQ Researcher back to 1991.

LexisNexis Academic

Click on the "Legal" tab to access legal journals, laws and court opinions. The "General" (default) tab provides full-text newspaper and magazine articles, wire services, broadcast transcripts and blogs.

LexisNexis Congressional

Indexes House and Senate Documents back to 1789, and full-text for Congressional documents from recent years.

Oxford African American Studies Center

Encyclopedia and biographical articles and a selection of over 300 primary source documents make up this electronic resource.

Project MUSE

Provides current issues for many of the same scholarly journals in JStor.

Readers' Guide Retrospective

Indexes the popular press (approximately 350 periodicals), 1890-1982. Three simultaneous users.

WorldCat

This union catalog of 9,000 libraries contains over a billion records. Includes a direct link to the Illiad interlibrary loan service.

Using the Library Catalog

Click here to search the Library Catalog

The library catalog and WorldCat use Library of Congress Subject Headings. The list of authorized subject headings is available online from the Library of Congress Classification/Subject Headings database. However, you can also start with keyword searches to gather some relevant titles, then look at their subject headings to discover the official terms to use.

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings will aid your searches.

Aliens
Americanization
Citizenship
Civil rights [e.g., African Americans -- Civil rights]
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights movements
Discrimination
Discrimination in education
Election law
Emigration and immigration law
Freemen
Immigrants
Indians of North America [or specific tribe] -- Tribal citizenship
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Literacy tests (Election law)
Naturalization
Race discrimination
Sex discrimination against women
Racism -- Political aspects
Slaves
Slavery
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment [or other amendment]
Voter registration
Women immigrants
Women -- Suffrage
Women's rights -- United States [or individual state or other geographic area] -- History
Women -- United States [or individual state or other geographic area] -- History
[Group name] -- Legal status, laws, etc. [e.g., Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc.]
[Place name] -- Race relations

Books & Library Materials

For reference sources on the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S., browse the Reference collection in the call number range E184-E185.

For reference sources on women's history, browse HQ1115-HQ1420.

Encyclopedia of activism and social justice

This electronic reference book is part of the Sage Reference Online service.

Encyclopedia of race, ethnicity and society

Another title from Sage Reference Online.

Encyclopedia of American Social History

Videos, DVDs & Music

You will find videos in the catalog as you search for books and other materials. To limit your search to videos, go to the "Advanced Keyword Search" option and use the "Material type" box to select videorecordings. Or, after performing a search, click the "Modify Search" or "Limit/Sort" button and select the material type videorecordings option there. You can also browse the documentary section by the same call number ranges mentioned under Books above.

The following PBS videos are available as streaming video online:

Not for ourselves alone: Part 1

Not for ourselves alone: Part 2

One woman, one vote

African American lives: Episodes 1-2

African American lives: Episodes 3-4

Africans in America, Part 1: The Terrible Transformation, 1450-1750

Africans in America, Part 2: Revolution, 1750-1805

Africans in America, Part 3: Brotherly Love, 1791-1831

Africans in America, Part 4: Judgment Day, 1831-1865

Citizen King: 1963-1968

Dark Passages

Freedom: A history of US - Episode 13, Democracy and struggles and Episode 14, Let freedom ring

Reconstruction: The second civil war - Part 1, Revolution

Reconstruction: The second civil war - Part 2, Retreat

Time of fear

Websites

Women in Congress

Harriet Jacobs

Discovering American Women's History Online

This metasite is searchable and can be browsed by subject, state, time period, and primary source type.

George Grantham Bain Collection

This collection of photographs from one of the first American news picture agencies has over 100 images of the women's suffrage movement in the early 20th century.

Sewall-Belmont House and Museum

A digital collection of the National Women's Party is available through this website.

This Shall be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920

African American Odyssey

Civil Rights in Mississippi

Voices of Civil Rights

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

From Harvard University Library's collections, this website provides includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections.

More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution

From the Smithsonian's Museum of American History.

Women Working, 1800-1930

From Harvard University Library's collections, this website provides includes approximately 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets and 1,200 photographs.

Statistics

Historical Statistics of the United States

Primary Sources

See the guide "Finding Primary Resources for Historical Research" for a more complete discussion of the library's resources.

Search the Randall Library catalog and WorldCat (see below for links) for history makers' names as authors. This should retrieve their memoirs, diaries and correspondence.

As you search subject topics in the catalog and WorldCat, note that the following subdivisions indicate primary source:
Archives*
Caricatures and cartoons
Correspondence*
Diaries*
Early works to 1800
Facsimilies
Interviews
Newspapers [e.g., African Americans -- Newspapers]
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Pamphlets
Personal narratives (used in relation to specific events only)
Photographs
Pictorial works
Songs and music
Sources
Speeches, addresses, etc.*
Treaties

*Used with individuals' names,classes of persons (e.g., soldiers), and organizations.

American Slavery

This database includes a set of slave narratives. Searchable by name, subject and place.

HarpWeek

Full text of Harper's Weekly for the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

Transcripts of letters and diaries searchable by name, topic, era, event.

New York Times Archive

Full image of the New York Times from 1851 - 3 years ago.

Pennsylvania Gazette

Full text of the newspaper considered "the New York Times of the colonial era" from 1728 - 1800

Readers' Guide Retrospective

Indexes the popular press (approximately 350 periodicals), 1890-1982. Three simultaneous users.

Documenting the American South

From the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, this website provides full text access to slave narratives and other first-person narratives, Colonial Records of North Carolina, oral histories, and a library of southern books.

Votes for Women: Selections from the Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

From the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project

This site has selected documents online. The library has the published volumes in the General Collection HQ1410 .A2525.

Booker T. Washington Papers

The library also has the paper copy of this set of Booker T. Washington papers in the General Collection E185.97 .W274.

Frederick Douglass Papers

Another American Memory Project set from the Library of Congress.

Citation, Writing & Presentation Resources

Many databases provide a recommended citation in a variety of style manuals. This is very helpful, but always review the citation to be sure it is accurate.