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Books
Getting Started on Your Research Project
will guide you through the
process of finding books with information on your topic.
Databases
The best place to start your online research may be a subscription
database. Search results can vary from short, introductory entries on
your topic to in-depth, scholarly articles. Databases to try include:
American
Heritage Magazine
A history publication with issues dating back to 1954 maintained in
the reference section of the Conard Library.
Search for your topic in the index volume that can be found, along with
the magazines at
REF 973.AME.
Primary Sources
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The library has
extensive collections of primary documents from American history.
Find them by searching Athena with such terms as:
sources or eyewitness or documents
or oral history or personal narrative -
combined with keywords that relate to your topic. (e.g. Vietnam and
"personal narrative", Holocaust and eyewitness, "Great Depression"
and sources).
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The reference section
contains several major collections of the most important documents
from American History. They include the titles listed below and many
others that may be found using the terms given above.
The Annals of America
REF 973 ANN
Documents of
American History
REF 973 COM
100 key documents in American democracy
REF 973 ONE
Terrorism: A documentary history
REF 303.625 TER
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Call numbers that begins
with PI refer to special kits of primary source materials -
actual facsimiles of the original documents - related to many
American history topics.The librarians can show you where they are.
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Databases to search:
History Resource Center: U.S.
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Annals
of American History Online,
Historical Hartford
Courant,
and through the West
Hartford Public Library, The Historical New York Times.
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Websites:
Library of
Congress - American Memory Collection ,
The National
Archives ,
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study
of American History ,
Connecticut History Online , more to come.
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LIFE Magazine
Collection - popular culture in America from 1955 through 1998.
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