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Race and Ethnicity in American Culture and History

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Reference Sources (great for background reading):
Putnam Library has specialized single and multi-volume sets of encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, handbooks, atlases, etc. in the print reference collection that provide you with both primary and secondary source material. Here is a sample:

- American Decades Primary Sources R973.9 Ame
- Encyclopedia of American Social History (Scribner) R973 Enc
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century R973.9 Enc
- Encyclopedia of Race and Racism R305.8 Enc
- What Happened?: An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever R973.03 Wha

Online Resources (Databases)

ABC-Clio Social Databases A great starting place to find quick background info pertaining to American history, government, war, etc. Similar to an encyclopedia.

U.S. History in Context Covers significant American events, people, and topics. Includes reference, magazine and scholarly (journal) articles, images/audio, and primary sources.

History Study Center Contains primary and secondary sources.

JSTOR (Login in with your BPL eCard. Get an eCard here.) Scholarly journal articles from the Boston Public Library. This updated website link will lead you to a list of Boston Public Library resources. Click on JSTOR to access this database.

eBooks

Gale Virtual Reference Book Online reference encyclopedias.

ABC-CLIO ebooks More than 7,000 ebooks (comprising of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and guides) about American, military, and world history as well as politics, government, race, pop culture, etc.

Annals of American History Access to primary source documents from U.S. History from 1493 to the present.

More Online Tools

America’s Historical Imprints An archive of American history spanning from 1639 – 1819. Contains pamphlets, books, letters, posters, etc.

Library of Congress An invaluable site for American history and general studies. Use it to locate primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints, photographs, sound recording and motion pictures. Click on the American Memory link to find over 100 thematic collections of material.

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Newspapers

Boston Globe (Username and Password in Library Access Portal in Veracross) Full access to Boston Globe archives from 1872-present. Only five users may be logged on at one time.

Lexis-Nexis Scholastic Edition Over 50 major U.S. and international newspapers since 1989. Transcripts of radio and televised national and international broadcasts are available as well as legal cases.

Newsbank American Historical Newspapers Features newspapers published in the United States from 1690-2000.

Newsbank Access World News Features current print and online news from around the world from 1978 – current.

New York Times Website Full access to NYT.com. Use your Nobles email address to sign up for a free account.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers Historical news from New York Times, Chicago, L.A., and Atlanta.

Wall Street Journal (Username and Password in Library Access Portal in Veracross) A daily international newspaper with an emphasis on business and economics. Covers current and last five years.

Videos (Online)

Classroom Video On Demand Contains 5,000 educational videos. Lots of American, World, and European history videos.

Citing Tools

EasyBib: Citation Generator (Register here so that you can save your work and use off-campus.)

eTurabian generator