Background Sources
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Ref
F1408
C36 |
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America. 1992
(source of ancient and colonial information)
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Ref
JC421
D4634 |
Democracy in Europe and the Americas.
1998
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Ref
F1410
A79 |
Encyclopedia of the Inter-American System.
1997
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Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 2nd Ed. 2008
(source of ancient and colonial information)
Access from the Cook Library Web site. Click on Library Catalog & Account in the Quick Tools Menu. Change word/s anywhere to title beginning with.... and to search by the title, type: encyclopedia of latin american history & culture...... Once you see the item record, click on and click on the GO link which will take you directly to the encyclopedia, if you're on campus but will require you to log in with your 14-digit ID and last name, if you're off campus. OR
Access from the Cook Library Web site, under Databases, where you'll see the encyclopedia listed in alphabetical order. From off-campus, click
on Off Campus Access link and once logged in, search By Database
Name, typing ...encyclopedia of latin...to get to the encyclopedia.
The 1996 print edition of the encyclopedia can be found in the reference stacks - Ref F1406 E53
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| Stacks |
Library of Congress Country Studies (Area Handbooks)
(To
locate a print copy in the Cook Library stacks, from the Cook Library
Web site search the Towson Catalog using a Keyword search
with "area handbook" and the name of the country [e.g. area
handbook and brazil]
Also available at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Originally
published between 1988 - 1998 to provide U.S. government officials and
citizens with information about other countries. Each book provides the
historical context for the geography, society, politics, foreign policy
and economics of a country. (source of ancient and colonial information)
For
updated country profiles see Country
Profiles. |
Ref
F1410
E56 |
Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics. [Center
for LA Studies, Georgetown U] 2002
See also Political Database of the Americas, which is the online source of polical information hosted by Georgetown University. Much of the material is in Spanish. |
Ref
F1406
E515 |
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.
3v. 2000
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Ref
F1434
O45 |
Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary.
1991
(source of ancient and colonial information) |
Ref
F2229
S7
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Handbook of South American Indians
.
1991
(source of ancient and colonial information) |
Ref
F1401
S68 |
South America, Central America and the Caribbean . 1997-
[biannual]
Provides extensive
economic and political background of countries.
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Ref
F1210
E63 |
Encyclopedia of Mexico:
History, Society & Culture.
[Werner] 2v. 1997
(source of ancient and colonial information)
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Ref
F1204
M955 |
Milenios de Mexico.
[Musacchio] 3v. 1999
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Ref
F1204
B74
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Historical Dictionary of Mexico .1981
(source of ancient and colonial information)
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Historic Cities of the Americas : An Illustrated Encyclopedia. 2v. 2005
Available online through the Cook Library catalog. Once you find it in the catalog, click on and enter 14-digit library ID and last name.
- Geographical coverage includes: Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and South American cities
- Articles on historical development of major cities in the Americas, most dating back to the 16th century, but also some ancient cities
- Extensive bibliographies of additional sources including English and non-English books and periodical articles
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Ref
F1218.6
A73 |
Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia. 2001
(source of ancient and colonial information) |
Ref
F1218.6
O95
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America . 3 v. 2001
(source of ancient and colonial information) |
Ref
F1219
B932 |
Encyclopedia of Ancient Mesoamerica .1996
(source of ancient and colonial information) |
R131
C233
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The Cambridge World History of Human Disease .1993 (Shelved in Faculty Reserves at Circulation desk.) (source of ancient and colonial information)
Includes chapters on:
- Diseases of the Americas - Pre-Columbian, 1492-1700, and since 1700
- Disease Ecologies of South America
- Disease, human migration, and history
- Disease decriptions including etiology & epidemiology, distribution & incidence, history & geography, and prevention
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Ref
F1231
G37
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A Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain .1992
(source of ancient and colonial information) |
Ref
F1434 through
F3704 |
See this
range of call numbers in the Reference Stacks for historical dictionaries
of various Latin American countries.
(source of ancient and colonial information)
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Atlases & Geography
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Ref
G1541
S1 L3
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Atlas and Survey of Latin American History . 2007
Themes include: Land and Its Peoples; America Before 1500; Science, Exploration, and Expansion; Iberian Conquest of America; America Under Hapsburg Rule; America Under Bourbon Rule; From Autonomy to Independence; Latin America in the Nineteenth Century; Latin American Economies in the Twentieth Century; Demographics and Population in the Twentieth Century; Political, Social, and Cultural Issues; and Revolutionary Movements.
Includes over sixty clear and easy-to-read maps, each of which is accompanied by an essay and brief bibliography. Accompanying index to places, people, and events.
(source of ancient and colonial information) |
Ref
Quarto
G1551
S1 H2 |
Historical Atlas of Central America.
Includes: Environment & Territory; People & Places: Patterns of Cultural Change; Colonial Societies; Formation of National Societies; Challenge of Development. (source of ancient and colonial information)
(Shelved in atlas area of the Reference section.)
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Ref
Quarto
G1030
O94 |
Oxford Atlas of World History. 1999
Includes: From Hunting to Farming in the Americas, 12,000 - 6500 BC; Civilizations in Mesoamerica, 1200BC - AD700; Cultures in South America, 1400BC - AD1000; Civilizations in Mesoamerica and South America, 500-1500; Inca and Aztec empires, 1400-1540; Spain and the Americas, 1492-1550; Colonization of Central and South America, 1500-1780; Slave Economies of the Western Hemisphere, 1500-1880. (Shelved in atlas area of the Reference section.)
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G1030
T56 |
Times Concise Atlas of World History .
Includes: Peoples and Cultures of the Americas, 500-800; America on the Eve of European Conquest, 1000-1500; European Voyages of Discovery, 1487-1780; Colonial America (including Peru & Mexico), 1519-1783.
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Maps & Graphics [from Poverty Mapping]
http://www.povertymap.net/mapsgraphics/index.cfm
Global, regional, and national maps searchable by themes including demographic indicators, economy and markets, education, energy, food security, health, poverty indicators, urban areas, water and sanitation. These maps were pulled from the Web sites of many international organizations such as the UN, FAO, and CIESIN.
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World Regional Geography: South America
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101ilec/samer/smmenu.htm
A Web site created by a Geography professor that includes links to maps from South America organized by regional & physical geography, cultural geography, economic geography, historical geography, and regions.
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U.S. - Latin American Relations
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Time Line of U.S. Latin
American Relations
http://legacy.ncsu.edu/classes/hi300001/hi453time.htm
A timeline,
covering the years 1819 - 2001, created by History Professor Richard
Slatta from North Caroloina State University for his students.
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Ref
F1418
D468
2005 |
Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latin American Relations.
People,
events, doctrines, treaties and policies pertinent to U.S. Latin American
Relations from the early 19th century to date. Each entry is accompanied
by suggested reading. Includes an extensive subject index, a timeline
of U.S.- Latin American relations, and a select bibliographies of print
and online resources.
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Ref
F1418
A1T7 |
A Bibliography of United States - Latin American Relations Since 1810.
1968
Supplement. 1979
Index
to books, articles, pamphets and documents in English and other languages.
Arranged chronologically from 1810 -. Also includes country surveys
and sections on the Pan American Movement since 1889 and Latin American
Movements:Pan Hispanism, Yankeephobia, & Aprismo.
To determine
if any of the items that you find are available in the Cook Library
or another USM library, check the Towson and/or USMAI Catalog.
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Ref
E183.7
E53 |
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. 4 vols. 1997
Traces
the history of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America from the 19th century
to the mid 1990s. See the overview article on Latin America, as well
as articles on individual countries and topics such as Bay of Pigs Invasion,
Mexico War with, Monroe Doctrine, North American Free Trade Agreement,
and Organization of American States. Accompanying bibliographies provide
suggestions for further reading.
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Ref
E183.7
E52 |
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. 2nd ed. 3 vols. 2002
See entry
on Pan-Americanism.
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Ref
E183.7
G85 |
American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature. 2nd
ed. 2 vols. 2003
Annotated
list of resources published by the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations. Includes U.S. document collections, personal papers,
bibliographies, historiography and biographies for a time period as
well as overviews of relations between the U.S. and other countries
and regions.
For U.S.
foreign relations with Latin America, check the table of contents for
the entire work or the detailed table of contents for each chapter.
Regional/country references include books and some journal articles.
To determine if any of the items that you find are available in the
Cook Library or another USM library, check the Towson and/or USMAI Catalog.
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E183.7
B4
Shelved
in the 5th floor stacks |
American Secretaries of
State and Their Diplomacy. 20 vols. 1963 -
This series
begins with Robert R. Livingston, who served as Secretary for Foreign
Affairs of the Continental Congress from 1781 - 1783, to Cyrus Vance,
who served as Secretary of State from 1977 - 1980 under President Jimmy
Carter. Each volume is enhanced by notes
that reference primary sources and a topical index.
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Following is a selection of resources that provide full text access to
primary documents.
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KZ233
U55
Shelved
in the 5th floor stacks |
NARA Presidential Libraries
and Museum Page
http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/index.html
Provides
links to U.S. Presidential libraries, which provide selected primary
sources. Also explains various types of presidential documents
and how they can be useful in your research.
In the
Diplomacy
and Foreign Policy section of this site, you will find links
to other primary sources
such as the U.S. State Department publications, including selected volumes
of Foreign
Relations of the U.S.
(FRUS)
since 1945. Series presents the official documentary historical record
of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
Online
volumes drawn from the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations.
University of Wisconsin Libraries provides electronic access
and keyword searching to an incomplete run of those volumes published
between 1861-1960.
Cook Library
also owns print copies of Foreign
Relations of the U.S.
from 1861 to date. These can be found on the 5th floor of the library
with the call number KZ233 U55.
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JX231
D6
Shelved
in the 5th floor stacks |
Documents on American
Foreign Relations. 1938 - 1970
[World Peace Foundation/Council on Foreign Relations]
Collection
of documents
selected
for their significance to U.S. foreign relations. Published annually.
not limited to U.S. government sources. Documents are accompanied by
introductory historical essays in the later volumes.
American Foreign Relations,
published from 1971-1978 continues the set.
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Avalon Project at Yale
Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp
This selection
of primary sources spans pre-1800s
to the 21st century, covering the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics,
Diplomacy and Government. Use the SEARCH feature to check for documents
on Latin American countries. Some of the major collections include:
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Just the Facts: A Civilians
Guide to U.S. Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America
http://justf.org/
Web site
maintained by Latin America Working Group Education Fund, the Center
for International Policy and the Washington Office on Latin America.
This database presents statistics on arms transfers and sales, training
programs, bases, exercises, and information on the laws that govern
these activities. Also includes counter-narcotics and humanitarian assistance
programs.
Information
is indexed by aid by individual country and program. Other sections
include U.S. Bases and Military Installations, Laws Governing Military
and Police Aid, Current News, and Recent Government Statements, Reports,
and Other Groups' Publications.
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Internet Modern History
Sourcebook [Fordham
University]
Links to
a small collection of primary documents and some secondary sources located
on various Web sites. Organized by topics and countries.
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Ref
E839.5
H57 |
Historic Documents. Annual.
1972-
Primary
sources and excerpts of primary sources that chronicle the
events of each year from 1972 to date. Although the documents selected
represent worldwide events, the main focus is on the U.S. Thematic Table
of Contents provides quick access to documents regarding International
Affairs - Latin America or use the Cumulative Index, especially by country
name. Sources are drawn from the U.S. government, non-U.S. governments,
and NGOs.
Current
five years are shelved in the Reference stacks, earlier years are in
the general stacks on the 5th floor of the library.
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Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs [U.S.
Department of State]
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/
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Washington Office for Latin America
http://www.wola.org/
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National Security Archives
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Access
full text documents from projects on Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras,
and Mexico from the menu bar at the bottom of the page.
See also
the Electronic Briefing Books available at:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/#Latin
America
Declassified
records from the U.S. government on issues including U.S. national security
and foreign policy regarding Latin American countries including Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Peru, and Uruguay.
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Web Directories
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LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
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Political Database of the Americas
http://pdba.georgetown.edu/

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Bibliographies
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Z1605
H3 |
Handbook of Latin American Studies. 1936-
Located on
the 4th floor of the library in the general stacks. Also available on
the Web at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas
- Good source for ancient and colonial history.
- Contains
essays that provide historiographic
analysis of Latin America by: ethnohistory;
general history; Mexico; Central America; Caribbean; Guianas, &
Spanish borderlands; Spanish South America including Venezuela, Colombia
& Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay & Uraguay,
and Brazil.
- Resources
indexed are in various languages, including English
- Click
on the Expert
Search page
link on the menu bar at the top of the screen to browse the Table
of Contents for the essays on HISTORY that are available online
in every other volume (This includes all the essays but those in the
last two volumes.)
- When
you are on the Expert Search page, scroll down it
to see the Table of Contents link
- Use the
Expert
Search page to search for historiographies in books and journals
- In
the Title keyword/s box enter
a specific topic (e.g., peru, aztec, labor, peasant, nationalism)
- In
the Subject keyword/s box type
historiography
- Change
Search for words exactly as entered
to
Search for variants of English-Language,
if desired
- You
will find that not all of your results will be true historiographies.
After reading the abstracts, select those articles that qualify
according to what you have learned in your class.
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Ref
F1408
L3862 |
Latin
America and the Caribbean. [Covington]
1992
- Contains
essays that provide historiographic
analysis of Latin America by time period including: colonial; 1750-1850;
since 1850; and Brazil. Resources
noted are in various languages, including English.
- Good source for ancient and colonial history.
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Ref
F1410
A1G7 |
Latin America: A Guide to the Historical Literature.
[Griffin] 1971
(Good source for ancient and colonial history.)
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F1408
A1W687 |
Latin America, Spain and Portugal. [Wilgus]
1977
Located
on the 5th floor of the library in the general stacks.
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| Rankings
& Statistics |
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Country Indicators for Foreign Policy [CIFP][Carlton
University, Canada]
http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/about.htm
The
CIFP project keeps track of failed and fragile states, providing conflict risk assessment reports on selected states in South and Central Asia, Caucasus, Africa, and Latin America.
Provides rankings of countries on indicators such as democratic participation, political stability and human rights for Governance & Democracy Processes and indicators including authority, economics, security & crime, and human development for Failed & Fragile States. Also try searching the Reports & Briefs for country reports.
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Ref
HA935
S8 |
Statistical Abstract of Latin America. [UCLA] Annual
1957- Latest kept in Reference.
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Ref
HA755
A68 |
Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean.
[UN] Annual 1985- Latest
kept in Reference.
1997 to date are also available online .
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Ref
HC161
U6 |
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean. [UN]
Annual 1982- Latest kept in
Reference.
This
and other CEPAL/ECLAC statistical publications are available online .
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Organizations & Think Tanks
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Inter-American Dialogue
http://www.thedialogue.org/
U.S. center for policy analysis regarding relations among nations in the Western Hemisphere. Many reports and white papers are available online.
- See Publications ,which cover the topics of U.S. policy, trade & economics, democratic governance, press freedom, education, hemispheric governance, social policy, and women.
- Program Agenda include reports on the Andean Region, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru.
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Ref
JZ5331
W55 |
Historical Dictionary
of Inter-American Organizations. 1998
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Organization of American States
http://www.oas.org |
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Inter-American Development Bank
http://www.iadb.org
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Council on Hemispheric Affairs
http://www.coha.org/ |
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ECLAC: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and
the Caribbean
http://www.eclac.org |
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World Bank Group:Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.worldbank.org/lac
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Pan American Health Organization
http://www.paho.org/
For regional and country profiles of health and human development in Latin America see the PAHO publication, Health in the Americas 2007, which can be found in Cook Library Reference section.
[Ref RA407.5 A47 H4 2007]
Also check the World Health Organization. You can search by country for information. Includes reports on disease outbreaks, health expenditures, immunization, health legislation, life tables, number of health personnel, and particular health conditions such as tuberculosis, polio, diabetes, and oral health.
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News |
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There are various Web sources that provide up-to-date world news.
Yahoo provide links to news stories about Latin America from a wide
variety of sources. Yahoo also provides access to stories by country.
To locate stories on a particular country in Google
World News, type in the name of the country.
Google
Alerts is a news alerting service that sends news stories on a topic
of your choice to your E-mail account.
CNN
and BBC
also have world news sites, although BBC's Americas section includes North
and South America.
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Check the following two sources
for articles with a perspective from outside of the U.S.
Online Publications
from and about Latin America
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Research/Subject/latinamericapubs.html
Maintained
by University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Newspapers in Latin America
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/
Maintained
by University of Texas at Austin. |
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Note: For news articles available in databases to which the
library subscribes, see Indexes & Online
Databases below, especially LexisNexis Academic
and New York Times Historical.
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Indexes
& Online Databases
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The following online databases, which index primarily secondary, but some
primary sources, are available only through the Cook
Library Web site. From off campus, you will need to access them by clicking on the Off Campus Access link using
your 14-digit Library ID on the front of your Towson University OneCard.
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Academic
Search [EBSCO].
Multidisciplinary
online database that indexes English-language articles from magazines,
journals, and newspapers. Many of the articles indexed here are available
electronically or in print through Cook Library.
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New
York Times Historical
1851-2001
New
York Times to
date
Provides
full text and full image of all articles.
Current New York Times articles are available through both LexisNexis
Academic and National Newspapers databases.
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Historical
Abstracts. 1955-
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Covers from 1450 A.D. - ; For earlier time periods, use Humanities Abstracts (source of ancient information)
- Search
for abstracts of articles from scholarly journals in History and social
sciences. Focus on countries other than United States and Canada.
- Once
on the basic search screeen, click on the ADVANCED SEARCH for more search
options
- For historiographies,
type historiography in the box next
to SU Subject Terms
- Type
a topic in the box next to Select a Field (e.g., mexico, inca, colonialism,
revolution)
- To
limit results to English language articles, select english
next to Language:
- To
limit results to a particular time period in history, enter the
appropriate years next to Historical Period from:
- You will
find that not all of your results will be true historiographies. After
reading the abstracts, select those articles that qualify according
to what you have learned in class about how to identify a historiography.
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America:
History and Life. 1955-
-
Indexes
articles
from scholarly journals in social, polical, and economic history. Content
focus is on the United States and Canada, covering
the time period from 1450 to present.
Some of the articles indexed are available electronically or in print
through Cook Library.
- Once
on the basic search screeen, click on the ADVANCED tab for more search
options
- To limit
results to a particular time period in history, enter the appropriate
years next to TIME PERIODS box
- Put
cursor over the TIME PERIODS link to learn proper way to enter years
(e.g., 1800H, 1960D)
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JSTOR.
-
Search
and access the full text of 450 major scholarly journals in all disciplines
from their first issue up to four years ago.
Coverage complements the more current coverage of databases published
by other concerns such as EBSCO.
- Once
in JSTOR, to find a historiography:
- Click
on Search
- Click
on Advanced Search
-
In the All of These Words Field: Type the word historiography
and a word that designates your topic (For example, type historiography
argentina
- Select
to search ARTICLES only
- Select
to search journals in the field of: LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
- Click
on Search
- You will
find that not all of your results will be true historiographies. After
reading the abstracts, select those articles that qualify according
to what you have learned in your class.
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Z1605
H16 |
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Annual 1979- |
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The following print resources index magazine, journal, and newspaper
articles that were published earlier than the online databases cover. They
index material published in English from the 18th century to the first half
of the 20th century. They are shelved on the back wall of the main (3rd)
floor of Cook Library. Those articles that were published during the time
of an event would be considered primary sources.
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Ref
AI21
T5 |
Palmer's Index to the
Times Newspaper (London). 1785-
The Times
of London is available on microfilm in the Periodicals Room on the 2nd
floor of Cook Library.
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Ref
AI13
I7 |
International Index to
Periodicals, Devoted Chiefly to Humanities and Science.
1907- 1964.
- Indexed
scholarly/professional journals
- Continued
by Social
Sciences & Humanities Index
1966
- 1974
[Ref A13 S6]
- Continued
by Social
Sciences Index 1974 -1997.
[Ref A13 S611]
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Ref
AI13
R4 |
Reader's Guide to Periodical
Literature . 1900
- 1997.
- Indexed
general interest and news magazines
- Continues
Poole's
Index to Periodical Literature
1890
- 1899
[Ref A13 P7]
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