Books
Finding Books & Book Reviews
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TripodTripod searches the Tri-College libraries’ collection of books, journal titles, multimedia materials, databases and more.
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Interlibrary LoanRequest books (and more) not available in Tripod or via E-ZBorrow for delivery in 2-14 days. No need to specify a library - the ILL staff will find out who owns an item and is likely to lend. The lending library sets the loan period and makes the decision on renewals.
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E-ZBorrowDirectly request books from regional academic libraries for delivery in 2-5 days. Books loaned via EZBorrow may be renewed via your library account. EZborrows can be renewed for 30 days. Each EZBorrow can be renewed twice, so that you can have a book lent via EZBorrow for up to 90 days!
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Book Reviews Library GuideConsult our Book Review guide to learn how to find reviews in various databases.
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
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America: History and LifeCovers North American history from prehistory to the present. Indexes 2000 journals, including all of the state and regional historical journals in the United States.
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Historical AbstractsProvides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
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JSTORProvides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
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Google ScholarGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web--About Google scholar.
Primary Sources Online
Finding Primary Sources Online
Large numbers of historical books, pamphlets, newspapers and manuscripts are now available online, some through free sites and some only through subscriptions.
The contents of the free sites can often be found through Google searches, while the contents of the subscription sites can usually be found only by going directly to the site. Listed below are some major historical collections to which Bryn Mawr, Haverford or Swarthmore subscribe.
For a more complete list of online primary sources, see the Tri-College Libraries page for History-Primary Sources .
Historical Newspapers & Journals
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The NationProvides scanned page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865.
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New York Times[Select the link for your college, then select ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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Philadelphia TribuneThis is the oldest continually running African-American newspaper, created in 1884 by Christopher James Perry, Jr. Coverage: 1912 to the present.
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Washington PostContains nearly all articles that have appeared in the Washington Post since 1877.
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Time MagazineTime Magazine is the first weekly news magazine in the United States. Coverage - 1923 to the present.
Historical Books, Manuscripts & Documents
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Sixties: Primary Documents & Personal Narratives, 1960-1974Provides a searchable collection that brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
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Women & Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000This resource provides documents pertaining to women and social movements. Includes document projects that interpret and present documents to address a question or a scholarly debate. Also includes images, a dictionary of social movements, a chronology and teaching tools. Covers the 17th century to the 21st century.
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African American Periodicals 1825-1995Features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. This collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998).
Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Many archives now have guides to their collections on the web, which means that it is often easiest to find the historical records of an organization or person by doing a Google search on the name and adding the word "archive."
The Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore libraries all have Special Collections departments with extensive historical collections.
** REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PHOTO ID WHEN VISITING !**
Finding Other Collections
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ArchiveGridProvides access to "nearly a million collection descriptions" from "thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact [information from] archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies."
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Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)"The collections of PACSCL member libraries include a total of more than 4,000,000 rare books, 260,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archival materials, and 9,000,000 photographs, maps, architectural drawings, and works of art on paper. PACSCL member libraries hold rich collections of materials on national, regional, and local history; the natural and social sciences; world history, literature and religion; art and architecture; and business and industry."
Citations - Chicago Style
Examples - Chicago Manual of Style
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Chicago Manual of Style Examples - UMUCExamples of Chicago Style from the University of Maryland University College.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
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The Chicago Manual of Style
ISBN: 9780226104201Publication Date: 2010-08-01The Chicago Manual is a comprehensive style manual used throughout the U.S. publishing world, perhaps more comprehensive than most college students need, but containing much useful advice on matters of punctuation, capitalization, and word choice as well as on the documentation of sources.
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