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Reference Books | Online Articles | Internet Sites | Analyzing Internet Sites
All of these books are available at the C.O.D. Library.
The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History
Reference Collection,
E174 .A535 1998
Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas
Reference Collection,
E 183 .E5 1984 (3 volumes)
Encyclopedia of American History
Reference Collection,
E174.5 .E52 1996
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
Reference Collection,
AE5 .E363 2002 (32 volumes)
A People's History of the United States
On Reserve at the Circulation Desk
Use any of these databases to get full-text articles. These databases are also available off-campus with a C.O.D. Library card.
Academic Search Premier
This database gives full-test from 1990-present.
Chicago Tribune
All articles are full-text! This database has articles and indexing from 1985 to present.
Hint: Use the Customized search option and limit to finding your topic in the "Headling/Title" of the article.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Another large database with full-text articles related to many of the suggested paper topics. Use the Keyword Search option unless you know a specific subject term. Keyword searches will yield more results.
Wilson Select Plus
A smaller database, but provides full-text from 1994 to present.
New York Times
Full-text coverage of the U.S. newspaper of record from 1999 to present. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.
New York Times Historical
Digital image of every issue of the New York Times from 1851-1999, cover-to-cover. Use this database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
Opposing Viewpoints
Covers social issues and current events. Contains viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.
From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/
The Onion
http://www.theonion.com
Beginner's Central: An Introduction to the Internet
http://northernwebs.com/bc/bc10.html
Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Information Resources by Alistair Smith
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm
Evaluating Web Sites
http://www.cod.edu/library/research/faq/evalnet.htm
Christine Kickels, Associate Professor and Librarian
Jackie McGrath, Assistant Professor
January 10, 2004
