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Finding Books
- The best way to find a book on your topic is to start
with a search in the Library
Catalog. Once you've found something of interest,
you should also browse the stacks in that particular area.
- Possible Subject Headings to use in the Library Catalog that would yield both primary and secondary works:
Harlem Renaissance
African Americans - Intellectual Life - 20th Century
United States - Race Relations - History - 20th Century
New Deal - 1933-1939
Politics and Literature - United States - History - 20th Century
Political Culture - United States - History - 20th Century
Popular Culture - United States - History - 20th Century
United States - Social Conditions - 1918-1932
United States - Social Life and Customs - 1933-1945
Women United States History Sources
For primary sources, also look for these subdivisions: diaries,
personal narratives, correspondence, sources.
Searching for Articles
using E-Resources
A - Z
Periodical Indexes (Secondary Sources):
Periodical Indexes (Primary Sources):
Newspapers (Primary Sources):
New
York Times Historical Backfile (1851-2004)
Los Angeles Times (1881-1985)
Chicago Tribune Historical Backfile (1849-1985)
Collections (Primary Sources)
United States Congressional Serial Set 1817-1966
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Women and Social Movements in the United States
Ad Access (Duke University)
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolridge Era and the Consumer Economy 1921-1929 (Library of Congress)
Harlem Renaissance (John Caroll University)
New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources
Archives
Mount Holyoke College Archives
Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College
Harvard Library "Women Working 1800-1930 Digital Collection
Citing and Evaluation Websites
Having trouble finding what you need? Go to LITS
and chat with a librarian
at the Reference Desk. Or, with advance notice, set up an
appointment to meet with Bryan
Goodwin, History liaison.
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