AMST 396: Beauty Matters: Raced Beauty in the United States
Fall 2004
Professor Adriana Estill
Encyclopedias | Indexes | Catalog | Web Links | Library Liaison
Encyclopedias, dictionaries and guides
Use these sources at the beginning of your research to get an overview of a topic or to identify synonyms or related terms that will apply to your topic. Later, return to these sources to clarify concepts or define new vocabulary.
Ref E169.1 .D399 2001
Browne, Ray Broadus, and Pat Browne. The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001.
Signed articles on a wide range of topics. Bibliographical references are included with each article, and the volume is indexed.
Ref E169.1 .E624 2001
Cayton, Mary Kupiec, and Peter W. Williams. Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Organized chronologically by topic, this encyclopedia is composed of substantial articles on broad topics. All articles include substantial bibliographies. Use the table of contents or the index to find the articles relevant to your research.
Ref E169.1 .E626 2001
Finkelman, Paul. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
Substantial, signed articles include bibliographical references. Index in volume 3.
Ref E169.1 .C685 1995
Fox, Richard Wightman, and James T. Kloppenberg. A Companion to American Thought. Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
Brief articles with references on people, movements, and ideas.
Ref E169.1 .G7555 2002
Inge, M. Thomas, and Dennis Hall. The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. 4 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Lengthy articles on more general subjects such as "Westerns." The four volumes are paged continuously, and the table of contents (given in each volume) refers to all four volumes. All articles have full bibliographies, and there is an index in volume 4.
Ref E169.1 .E625 2001
Kurian, George Thomas, et al. Encyclopedia of American Studies. 4 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier Incorporated, 2001.
Published by the American Studies Association, this work has signed articles with bibliographies. Index in volume 4.
Ref E169.1 .S764 2000
Pendergast, Tom, and Sara Pendergast. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. 5 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
Signed articles with references for further reading. Indexed.
Indexes and abstracts
Indexes and abstracts give you an organized entry point into periodical literature. Carleton does not own every title in the databases the library offers. Check MUSE (the library's catalog) to see if weown the journal title you are looking for. If we don't, take advantage of our Interlibrary Loan Services.
General
These general databases contain some articles in full text.
ProQuest Research Library
General database with full text for over 1600 journals.Ethnic NewsWatch
This full-text periodical database can be searched in either English or Spanish. Choose your language preference, and search full text from 240 journals, magazines, and newspapers.Alternative Press Index (API)
Provides indexing to left, radical, and alternative periodicals.
Film and Literature
MLA International Bibliography
The premier database for doing research in literatures, letters, film, and folklore.
Social Science
Social Sciences Index
Provides indexing to scholarly articles in many social science fields.Sociological Abstracts
Indexes scholarly literature in sociology, but can also be used for finding scholarly work on cultural studies.
History
America: History and Life
The index to scholarly literature on the history of the U.S. and Canada.
Dissertations
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Dissertation abstracts with free full-text available for many dissertations written since 1997.
Catalog
Gould Library has rich collections of books, journals, government documents, and other resources which are accessed via MUSE, the online catalog. When you use the catalog it is important to understand the way keyword and subject searching work. The same principles apply to keyword and subject searching in the periodical indexes and abstracts, though different subject heading systems may be used. Additionally, you need to understand how the books are organized. Many academic libraries use the Library of Congress classification system. This is your key to finding items on the shelf.
Bridge: The Online Catalog
Access to the library's collections (books, journals, microforms, etc) via
title, author, subject, and keyword searching. You might want to start with a keyword search in order to find good subject headings for your topic.
Browsing the stacks can help you evaluate the library's collection in a given field of study. Again, because American studies is so interdisciplinary, you may well find materials on one topic that cover a wide variety of call numbers. Browsing is probably best done after you have located one good item for your research.
Search WorldCat, an online catalog for libraries throughout the world, to take your search beyond Gould Library.
Web links
http://memory.loc.gov/
American Memory Project--Library of Congress
A gateway materials pertaining to the history and culture of the United States, American Memory offers access to more than seven milliong digital items.http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
Making of America at Cornell University
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Making of America at the University of Michigan
A digital library of primary resources from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/asw/
New American Studies Web--Pilot Version
Sponsored by the American Studies Association Crossroads Project, this site provides access to over 2000 web resoruces in American studies. The sites are arranged topically, so you begin with a broad subject and then narrow it down to something very specific.
Library Liaison
The Library Liaison for the Arts, Languages, and Literatures and this course is
- Mollie Freier
Phone: x7105
E-mail: mfreier@carleton.edu
Office: 466 Gould Library
Please feel free to contact me with questions, comments, or concerns.