HIST 340: Voices for Justice - Seven African American Lives (HC)

College of the Mainland Library, Texas City, book display for Women's History Month 2015 

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Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution    This link opens in a new window  This link opens in a new window  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 example #3 below, using keywords (in Tripod Any Field) rather than subjects will pick up results from chapter titles.

        black press  [Any Field search] = 33, 006 results           

         ("african american*" OR black*) AND (newspaper* OR press) AND history [Subjects] =118 results        

         ("mary ellen" OR mammy)  AND (pleasant OR pleasants) [Any Field]      

          (haymarket OR "industrial workers of the world" OR anarchis*) AND history [Subjects] AND ("african american*" OR black* OR race OR racial OR minorities)      

         "civil rights" AND "19th century" AND (black* OR "african american*") [Subjects]       

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.  Also note that older books, reports and dissertations are often listed with open access URLs.