James Steakley, Gay Pride parade, 1999, Madison, Wisconsin (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution
to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.
The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel. In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (called Any Field in Tripod) rather than subjects will pick up results from chapter titles, content summaries and other record content.
sexuality history united states [Any Field]
Over 1200 results
Sex United States History [Exact Subject heading]
(gay OR queer) AND (women* OR lesbian*) AND "united states" AND "20th century" [Subjects]
("african american*" OR black*) [Any Field] AND ("birth control" OR abortion* OR "reproductive rights" OR eugenic*) [Subjects] AND history [Subject]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your subject interest.
WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the button to place requests.