Getting Started - PAID 112 Section 03 & 13 - Klammer (Spring 2024)

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In this guide, you will find a selection of resources as a place to get started with research on your section's topic.

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Reference Collections

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An online collection of over 600 full-text reference works, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000 reference works, covering all disciplines.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
This online source provides access to subject and language reference works from Oxford University Press. In addition to text, access is provided to maps and illustrations, timelines, web sites, and bibliographies.
Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. Use the lower "Search Cambridge Histories" search box to find Luther-held content.

Reference Sources

South Africa
Call Number: e-book
Examines the genocide and persecution of South African people, providing an historical background on Apartheid, a "separateness" of the races, beginning in 1948.
The Cambridge History of South Africa, 1885-1994 by Robert Ross (Editor); Anne Kelk Mager (Editor); Bill Nasson (Editor)
Call Number: e-book
Publication Date: 2011-08-15
Africa: an Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 Volumes]
Call Number: Ref DT14 .A3415 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Available in print and online.
This encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa through discussions of key concepts and topics that touch everyday life among the nations' peoples.
Africana
Call Number: Ref DT14 .A37435 2005
ISBN: 9780195170559
Publication Date: 2005-04-07
Includes entries on both Africa and the African American experience
Encyclopedia of South Africa by Krista Johnson (Editor); Sean Jacobs (Editor)
Call Number: Ref DT1714 .E53 2011
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
This authoritative, comprehensive reference work covers South Africa's history, government and politics, law, society and culture, economy and infrastructure, demography, environment, and more, from the era of human origins to the present.
Historical Dictionary of South Africa by Christopher C. Saunders; Nicholas Southey; Jon Woronoff (Foreword by)
Call Number: Ref DT1772 .S38 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-10
This edition not only provides an update of the "new" South Africa, but expands on South Africa's complicated history as well, covering the period of British domination, problems with the Boers and the British, and the peopling of the region by Afrikaners.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights by David P. Forsythe
Call Number: Ref JC571 .E673 2009 v.1-5
This five-volume encyclopedia set offers coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history.
Colonialism by Melvin E. Page (Editor); James D. Ciment (Editor); Penny Sonnenberg
Call Number: Ref JV22 .C65 2003
Publication Date: 2003-09-16
A comprehensive reference on colonialism focuses on the politics, economy, culture, and society of both colonizers and colonized, and features nearly 600 entries from an international team of academic experts, along with extensive chronologies of 15 modern empires.
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
Call Number: Ref JV22 .E535 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Available in print and online.
Provides students and researchers with a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the subject of colonialism and expansion. From a global perspective, the set traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, and much more.
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace by Nigel Young (Editor)
Call Number: Ref JZ5533 .O95 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Available in print and online.

Atlases

Historical Atlas of Africa by A. J. F. Ajayi; Michael Crowder
Call Number: Atlas G2446.S1 H5 1985
ISBN: 0521253535
Publication Date: 1985-06-07
The Atlas of Changing South Africa by A. J. Christopher
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2000-10-17

Research Databases

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
An excellent starting point for research across a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Replaced Academic OneFile in 2022.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text access is available to over 380 journals and over 13,000 scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage from 1993 - present.
America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations in the history of U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Full-text for over 225 journals, and 85 books.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: history of the world from 1450 to present excluding the U.S. and Canada. Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations published 1955 – present. Full text for over 349 journals, and 120 books.

Newspapers and Primary Sources

New York Times, Historical plus Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the New York Times provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851. It is searchable by keyword, author, article title, and first paragraph (abstract). You can browse issues by clicking Publications at the top of the screen. It includes illustrations and advertisements. The title changed from the New York Daily Times to the New York Times in 1857.
Economist Historical Archive (1843-2015) This link opens in a new window
The Economist Historical Archive ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Containing every issue since its launch in 1843 and more than 600,000 pages, EHA offers full-color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys. Altogether this is an unrivaled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.
Times Digital Archive (1785-2013) This link opens in a new window
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times (London), one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 through 2013. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context.

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (JSTOR)
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was a significant political development in the 20th century. This collection focuses on the region's complex and varied liberation struggles, emphasizing Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Over 27,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images are available, including periodicals, records of colonial government commissions, personal papers, photographs, speeches, and interviews.

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