PAID 112 Section 03 & 9 - Klammer (Spring 2025)
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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. If you have questions or need help finding something, please ask at the library Circulation Desk or contact the librarian working with your section.
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Image: Abolish Apartheid sticker. 1980s? From the African Activist Archive.
Resources
You're not on your own! We've already collected here several reference sources, databases, and other resources that contain information you may need for your research project. Some are available online, while others are available in physical formats at Preus Library. Click on the tabs below to view links to these resources:
A reference source summarizes facts and concepts on a topic and provides useful background information. Reference sources include dictionaries and encyclopedias. Reference sources are a great place to start when you're trying to choose or narrow a topic. They'll help you learn the language of the topic you're interested in, and help you gather:
- basic facts or established information on your topic
- key concepts, terms, and people
- related topics, and more places to search
Online Reference Databases:
- 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.
- South African History Online (SAHO)
Online website on South African history and culture. Developed as a partnership among universities and community projects.
Individual Reference Titles:
Note: some of these titles are ebooks, while others are available as physical books at Preus Library.
South Africa by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2014Examines the genocide and persecution of South African people, providing an historical background on Apartheid, a "separateness" of the races, beginning in 1948.
Africa: an Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 Volumes]Call Number: Ref DT14 .A3415 2016 / ebookPublication Date: 2016Available 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.
Encyclopedia of South Africa by Call Number: Ref DT1714 .E53 / ebookPublication Date: 2011Available in print and online.
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.
The Cambridge History of South Africa, 1885-1994 (volume 2) by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2011Coming 15 years after South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments and records of South Africa.
Historical Dictionary of South Africa by Call Number: Ref DT1772 .S38 2000Publication Date: 2000This 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 Western Colonialism since 1450 by Call Number: Ref JV22 .E535 2007 / ebookPublication Date: 2007Available 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.
Encyclopedia of Human RightsCall Number: e-bookPublication Date: 2009This encyclopedia offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. This extraordinary work provides situation profiles and full coverage of the development of the movement, historical cases of abuse, the key figures, major organizations, and a range of other issues in economics, government, religion, and journalism that touch on human rights theory and practice.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American ExperienceCall Number: Ref DT14 .A37435 2005 v.1-5Publication Date: 2005More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
A database is a collection of scholarly journals and articles that lets us search many potential sources at once. Databases can be general and cover many subjects, or be specific to one or several subjects.
- 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. - 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. - Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (JSTOR) This link opens in a new window
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was a major political development in the 20th century. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on 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
Primary sources provide direct evidence or firsthand testimony about the period or subject you’re researching. Interviews, speeches, letters, and photographs can be primary sources. Learn more about primary sources here.
Ask your professor or a librarian if you have questions about identifying primary sources.
- South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building DemocracyInterviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narratives. Curated by Michigan State University’s African Studies Center. (This site also contains some secondary source material.)
- African Activist ArchiveContains records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s - pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, audio and video recordings, personal remembrances, and interviews.
- Community Video Education Trust (CVET) Archivea collection of 215 pieces of video footage (demonstrations, interviews, meetings, speeches) created by community videographers in Cape Town during the height of popular resistance in the1980s and early 1990s.
Apartheid in South Africa: a brief history with documents by Call Number: DT1757 .G67 2017ISBN: 9781319054144Publication Date: 2017Explore apartheid through a well-rounded variety of primary documents as Apartheid in South Africa breaks down the rise and fall of one of the best-known systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation.
- Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (JSTOR) This link opens in a new window
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was a major political development in the 20th century. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on 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
Preus Library subscribes several databases in order to provide access to a large variety of newspapers and other news material.
- New York Times, Historical plus Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProQuest 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.
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