HY200/FG206 Gender in America: From Colonial Times to 1920 - Torres-Rouff

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Professor David Torres-Rouff’s Block 8, 2009 class.

Finding Images

Example of bibliographies of materials with images
Advertising and Gender in American History

Search Google by topic and terms like “images”, “digital collection”, “primary sources”, “documents”, to find digital image collections like Documenting the American South from University of North Carolina and Emergence of Advertisting in America: 1850-1920 from Duke University.

Finding Images in Databases

ARTstor

Coverage: Prehistory - current

Hundreds of thousands of digital images with descriptive information covering painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, architecture, and design, as well as many other forms of worldwide visual culture. Save groups of images for later use in ARTstor, or download or print to use in class projects, presentations, and papers. First-time users must register for an account from a computer on campus.

Early English Books Online

Coverage: 1475 - 1700

Contains the full text of over 100,000 English books, pamphlets, and more, from the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare.

Early American Imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)

Coverage: 1639 - 1800

Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1639 to 1800. Not yet complete.

Early American Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Coverage: 1801 - 1819

Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1801 to 1819. Not yet complete.

Finding Images in Newspapers

Accessible Archives

Coverage: 1728 - 1900

Access to archival fulltext newspapers including the Pennsylvania Gazette, African American and Civil War Newspapers, and Godey's Lady's Book.

The New York Times

Coverage: 1851 - 3 years from current

Provides complete, full-image access to historical articles from the New York Times from 1851 to 3 years from present. For current online articles use Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Historical Chicago Tribune

Coverage: 1849 - 1985

The Chicago Tribune is one of the nation's oldest continuously published newspapers. Source for prohibition debates, mercantile development of the midwest, westward expansion, Settlement House Movement - Jane Addams, Al Capone. Full image and full text newspaper articles. (Lexis-Nexis provides current text coverage from March 1, 2002-present.)

Proquest Historical Newspapers Atlanta Constitution

Coverage: 1868 - 1942

The Atlanta Constitution, historically known as 'the voice of the new south.' Contains first hand accounts of the Reconstruction period and post-war South to early twentieth century. Full image and full text newspaper articles. (Lexis-Nexis provides text coverage from 1991-present.)

Los Angeles Times (Historical)

Coverage: 1881 - 1986

Provides complete, full-image access to historical articles from the Los Angeles Times from 1881. For current online articles, use Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Finding Images in Magazines

Historical Womens’ (Mostly) Popular Periodicals

Readers Guide Abstracts

Coverage: 1983 - current

Popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. 1983-current.

Finding Photographs

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive

Coverage: 1826 - current

Over one million photographs provided by the Associated Press.

American Memory

Coverage: historical

Digitized collections from the Library of Congress. Oral histories, letters, photographs, documents. Search by keyword.

American Museum of Photography is an online archive of over 5,000 images, mostly dating from 1839 to World War I.

Finding Images of Colorado History

Colorado Digitization Project Heritage West
Denver Public Library
Pikes Peak Library District
Colorado College Tutt Library Special Collections
California Digitization Project
Most states have digitization projects.

Finding Books

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching “gender* AND histor* AND United States” in KEYWORD search to find books on gender in American history.

Try searching “Gender identity — History” or “Gender identity—United States” in SUBJECT search.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as 3 days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

America, History & Life

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers American history.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link is available next to the citations in most of our databases and in GoogleScholar.

1. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

The Chicago manual of style. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
PE1478 .U69 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Managing Your Bibliography

RefWorks training every Wed. 1 p.m. @Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian

Contact Krystyna Mrozek, Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201, kmrozek@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttkrystyna

Last revised, 4-22-09, km.