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HIST 317: Visions of Mexico (HC)

History 317: Visions of Mexico (Krippner) Spring 2023

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          José Guadalupe Posada, A revolutionary soldier on horseback with a rifle, print, ca. 1880–1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art                                    Identified both as Heraclio Bernal and as Emiliano Zapata (Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain)

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  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 [Any Field] (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles and book descriptions.

       mexican revolution  [Any Field -Keyword search]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

       mexico history revolution 1910-1920  [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

       art mexic* "20th century" history [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon   

      photography mexico history [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon 

       soldadera* [Any Field] OR "women revolutionaries mexico history" [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

       (afro* OR african* OR blacks OR "black people") AND mexico history [Subjects]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  Newest titles first

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

Going beyond the TriCollege Collections

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