Black Studies Center
Full text and image collection of primary and secondary sources documenting the African-American experience, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. The center is comprised of several cross-searchable databases featuring scholarly essays, journal and newspaper articles, images, and multimedia content. Also included is an index to fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in black periodicals and newspapers dating back to 1827.
America: History and Life
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Subjects include area studies, folklore, government, historiography, political science, popular culture, and urban history.
Historical Abstracts
Covers the periodical literature, dissertations and book reviews on the world's history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the twentieth century. Produced by ABC-Clio. 1954-
MLA International Bibliography
Covers the scholarly research in the study of literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Includes references to journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
1926-
ALEX
Hamilton College Library's catalog. Use our call number locator to find items from your catalog search.
WorldCat
Catalog with more than 60 million records for books and other materials owned by libraries around the world. Use the button to request items through interlibrary loan.
History Matters
Selective gateway to U.S. history Web resources. Also includes first-person, primary documents and teaching resources. Searchable by keyword or topic.
Finding Primary Sources
Guide to finding primary source material—including books, documents, images, magazines, newspapers, personal accounts and speeches—using Burke Library's general collection, its online resources, and interlibrary loan.
Ask your professor if he or she has particular citation style preferences. The Writing Center also provides some information on departmental preferences.
The following resources can be especially helpful:
Citing Sources
The library's guide to documenting sources includes general subject area preferences and examples of citations for books, journals, and other commonly used resources.
RefWorks
RefWorks is an online bibliographic manager that can be used to create, organize and store references. Information can be imported from most of the library's research databases and reformatted to create bibliographies in wide range of documentation styles, including APA, MLA, and Chicago.
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