Dr. William McCarthy History Librarian: Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

HST 290: Practice of History –Hate Speech

Dr. William McCarthyHistory Librarian: Kristin Andrews

andrewsk@uncw.edu

Resource TypesPrimarySecondaryArticles

ScholarlyPopular

BooksTheses & DissertationsWebsites

Search tipsAnd, Or, Not

And narrowsOr adds synonyms/relatedNot excludes (use carefully)

Topic: Hate Speech in North Carolina

Hate speech AND North CarolinaSpeech OR expression OR statements

More Search TipsTruncate for word variations

Activis* = activist, activism

Words anywhere or exact phrase? Be all you can be vs. “Be all you can be”

Advanced LimitersHistorical eraSubject area (in JSTOR)

Working from a known citation• Heider, Carmen. “Farm Women, Solidarity

and the Suffrage Messenger: Nebraska Suffrage Activism on the Plains, 1915-1917." Great Plains Quarterly 32, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 113-130.

Look in the UNCW catalog for book OR journal title (in this case “Great Plains Quarterly”).

If we have the journal, check available dates for print & online formats

If we don’t have access, request via Interlibrary Loan

Finding Books

Library Catalog WorldCat Local

9,000 libraries / ~1.2 billion items

Google Books (public domain books are available in full text.)

Keyword vs. Subject in actionDo a keyword search in the

UNCW library catalog or the search box on the library home page.

When you find a title that is useful for your topic, look at the subject headings listed in the record.

Click on useful subject headings to lead you to other more books on that topic.

Searching Personal NamesKeyword searches

Either order Try name variations, e.g., initials

Author/Subject Last name first, e.g. Eaton, Hubert

Looking at the catalog record

Item InfoLocation (click for map)Call # (location on shelf)AvailabilityOnline AccessCover, summary, reviews

LC Call Numbers

LC Call Numbers

Interlibrary LoanFirst time: go to the ILL page and fill out

the form under “First Time Users”Username – UNCW domain namePassword – UNCW password

When you click “Request from Interlibrary Loan” in WorldCat Local or an article database, you can log in and it will fill out the request for you.

Allow a few days for articles & a week or so for book requests. You’ll get an email when it arrives.

Primary SourcesDiaries, journals, other writings of

“players”Eyewitness/observer accountsMemoirs, autobiographies (written later)Government & other official documents

Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings, addresses, congressional hearings, census records, etc.

Cartoons and Advertisements (of the time)

Photographs and imagesMovies!Interviews

Randall Catalog & WorldCatSubject Subheadings

CorrespondenceDiariesInterviewsPersonal

narrativesSourcesCatalogsManuscriptsPictorial Works

PortraitsSpeechesNotebooks/

Sketch-booksArchivesCartoonsDescriptionsDescription and

travel

Periodicals and NewspapersNew York Times Archive

Times Digital Archive

Readers’ Guide Retrospective

Newspapers on microfilm, e.g. Wilmington Morning Star

Digital Collections

Many out there. Some examples:

UNC – Documenting the American South

American Memory (from Library of Congress)

DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)

Official Documents - Legal

Lexis Nexis Academic

Hein Online

Bibliographies—Follow the trailBook-length (Reference Collection)Secondary sources (books and journal

articles)Types

Classified (easiest to find primary sources)

AlphabeticalFootnotes/Endnotes

What can you find?

Government & Legal DocumentsFdsys – Federal Digital System

America’s Authentic Government InformationFedStats

Statistics from more than 100 agencies and sub-agencies of federal and states government

HeinOnlineCongressional documents, court cases, etc.

Congress.govCongressional Documents

Lexis Nexis AcademicLegal Search

Questions?What will you do when you have questions?

Ask for help –it’s what we do!

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