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Searching for Sources
Below, I've included search boxes that should allow you to find books in a variety of places on campus.
Remember, when you are doing academic research, the language you use to do a search isn't necsesarily the same as the language other people used writing that information. For instance...
You might want to write a paper about how movies help shape the global image of America, but find very few resources on 'movies'. So you try 'film', but still don't find what you're looking for. Did you consider motion pictures? Probably not -- but that will lead to more resources, and resources you may have otherwise missed! You can use that to expand outwards. What if, instead of 'Hollywood', you searched motion picture industry?
One of the hardest things about doing research is finding the right words. Sometimes it takes me a dozen searches before I really figure out how to phrase my search properly. That doesn't mean I'm bad at research; that is research!
Credo Reference
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Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
Credo is an online reference tool that aggregates entries from a wide variety of encyclopedias. This resource is valuable for collecting background information on your topic, but it is rarely something you would want to cite. This is a starting point, not a stopping point.
Helpful Starting Points
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Doing Oral History
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Call Number: [electronic resource]Publication Date: 2014-10-17Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. -
Civil War Medicine
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Call Number: [electronic resource]ISBN: 9780253040077Publication Date: 2019-05-01In this never before published diary, 29-year-old surgeon James Fulton transports readers into the harsh and deadly conditions of the Civil War as he struggles to save the lives of the patients under his care. -
A Political Nation
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Call Number: [electronic resource]ISBN: 9780813932835Publication Date: 2012-06-05This impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century. -
A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881
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Call Number: [electronic resource]Publication Date: 2014-06-03A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents presents a series of original essays that explore a variety of important issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes. -
Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment
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Call Number: [electronic resource]ISBN: 9780739185742Publication Date: 2013-01-01The discrepancy between the fourteenth amendment's true meaning as originally understood, and the Supreme Court's interpretation of its meaning over time, has been dramatic and unfortunate.
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