Women in Modern America

NOT PUBLISHED

Subject:

History

Semester and Year:

Spring 2017

Course number:

HST 204 (Honors)

Instructor:

Bredbenner, Candice

Secondary Source Databases

You can use these databases, among others, to find secondary sources (mostly articles) on your research topic. Remember that if you are looking for contextual information that you need to go beyond just searching for a candidate's name - search for articles about the politics, media, public response to female politicians, etc. of that time period.

America: History & Life

Provides a robust source of information focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada. Selective indexing includes over a thousand journals dating back over 55 years.

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JSTOR

Archive of selected scholarly journals in anthropology, art, art history, communication studies, criminology, ecology, economics, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, geography, geology, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, public and international affairs, religion, social work, sociology, statistics, theatre, and other humanities and social sciences.

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Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, art history, creative writing, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, history, religion, theatre, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

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Primary Source Databases

Use these databases to find primary sources for your research. They all have different types of sources and focus on different time periods, so make sure you take a look at the descriptions.

New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Digital archive for the New York Times dating back to 1851. An excellent database for history, including full-text and full-image articles. For most dates, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files. For access to recent issues, go to the New York Times online or search US Newsstream.

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HarpWeek

The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I and II full text of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1877.

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Historical Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the United States. Our access includes editions back to 1878.

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History Vault

Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. Our collections include Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle, Southern Life and Slavery, American Politics and Society and Women’s Studies.

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Choose the Women's Studies collection here.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

Primary source collections of the “long” nineteenth century. Content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.

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Choose Women: Transnational Networks in this database.

ProQuest Congressional

Comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Finding aid for congressional hearings, committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1970-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present. Compiled legislative histories from 1969-present.

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Women and Social Movements in the United States - Scholar's Edition

Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.

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Books to Get You Started

Randall Library has a number of books that might contain relevant information for your research. You can search in the box below or use the UNCW Library Catalog link on the library homepage. Books often have broader topics than do articles, so your search terms will need to be broader. For example, a book about politics in the 19th century might contain information about your candidate or the politics of her time. Here's a non-comprehensive list of books that could be useful for you. Note that a few are already on reserve for your class.