The Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library
RESC 098-15: Monuments and Memory: Getting started
Fall 2019: Professor Michael Drexler
Resources to help get you started
Recommended databases are listed below. To view the entire list of library databases, see Databases A-Z.
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America: History and LifeProvides references to articles published since 1964 that deal with the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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Research LibraryCitations of newspaper and periodical articles covering a broad range of subjects, including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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JSTORAn archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
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Project MuseProvides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
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American Periodicals SeriesThis database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
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Readers' Guide RetrospectiveProvides access to citations of articles from popular magazines that were published between 1890 and 1982.
Tip
"Willingness to modify a thesis in response to research is the hallmark of a good historian." (Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History)
Thinking critically about resources
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Critically Analyzing Information Sources: Critical Appraisal and AnalysisProvides guidelines for thinking about and evaluating a variety of sources.
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Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (open e-book)OER (open educational resource) by Mike Caulfield, Washington State University Vancouver.
