Boston College Libraries
History and Memory in the Twentieth Century
Professor Franziska Seraphim
Librarian: Leslie Homzie
617 552 1907
homzie@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~homzie/
Boston College Libraries Research Guides
African & African Diaspora Studies:
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/research/guides/s-blackstudies/
Newspapers: http://www.bc.edu/libraries/research/guides/s-newspapers/
United States history: http://www.bc.edu/libraries/research/guides/s-ushistory/
Quest (Boston College Libraries’ Catalog)
To search for primary text material in Quest (http://library.bc.edu/F)
use the following subject headings:
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correspondence
sources
pamphlets
diaries
early works to 1800
personal narratives
interviews
speeches
Other Tips:
wom*n will find woman or woman
Slave* will find slavery, slaves, slave or slaved
Other Library Resources
Boston Library Consortium: http://www.blc.org/library_user_services/mem_cats.html
Interlibrary Loan: http://www.bc.edu/libraries/services/interlibrary/
Boston College Libraries Databases (Browse by History)
http://metaquest.bc.edu/V?func=find-db-1
Secondary Sources
America: History and Life
References to books, articles, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history from
prehistory to the present.
Art Full Text
Provides abstracts and full text of articles from more than 400 art, architecture, film,
photography, television, folk art, graphic design, pottery, sculpture, museum and other
peer-reviewed periodicals published throughout the world.
Dissertations and Theses Full text
Citations and abstracts to more than 2 million dissertations, 1861-present. The full text of
dissertations published since 1997 is also available for download.
Expanded Academic ASAP
An interdisciplinary index to journals, national news magazines.
Historical Abstracts
References to books, articles, and dissertations on world history.
JSTOR
A digital archive of fully searchable back issues of scholarly journals.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from
every age and literary discipline.
Periodicals Archives Online
Periodicals Archive Online is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in
the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Project Muse
Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press to offer the
full text of JHUP scholarly journals.
Sociological Abstracts
Contains information from approximately 1,809 journals in 30 different languages which
includes bibliographic citations and abstracts.
Web of Science
Access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts &
Humanities Citation Index.
WorldCat
Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
Primary Sources
ARTStor
A database of over 300,000 images plus descriptive information of art, architecture,
painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, archeological and
anthropological objects, and visual and material culture.
Archives USA
Provides access to :(NUCMC--National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, NIDSNational Inventory of Documentary Resources in the United States, and DAMRUS-Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States).
In the First Person
Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from
around the world.
Oral History Online
Oral History Online offers more than 30,000 pages of full-text content, including Ellis
Island oral history narratives, exclusive Black Panther party interviews, and other oral
histories.
Periodicals Archives Online
Periodicals Archive Online is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in
the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Women and Social Movements
Primary documents covering U.S. history and women in social movements in the U.S.
between 1700 and 2000.
Newspapers (Secondary and Primary Sources)
African American Newspapers
Provides the complete full texts of major 19th century African-American newspapers.
Early American Newspapers
Cover-to-cover reproductions of historic newspapers, with fully text-searchable facsimile
images of pages. The collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and
Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Covers news, industry, and market news; legal news and research; company financial
information; general medical topics; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law
reviews; case law; U.S. Code.
New York Times 1851-2003
Fulltext is searchable by keyword, article type, date range, and author's name. Full-page
images, including advertisements, can be displayed by article or by page.
PressDisplay
Provides online, same-day access to more than 250 newspapers from the U.S. and more
than 50 other countries. All papers are provided complete (with a few minor exceptions)
and in color, exactly as they appear in print. Issues remain available online for 60 days.
Times Digital Archives
Two hundred years of "the world's newspaper of record," the Times of London is offered
in searchable full text, including news articles, editorials, obituaries, and advertising.
Web Resources (Selected examples)
The Library of Congress: American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
More than nine million digital items maintained by the Library of Congress; provides
access to photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving
pictures.
University of Oregon: Primary Sources
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/history/primary.html
An excellent overview of Primary Source research from the University of Oregon
Libraries.