American Studies 300
Library Resources (Fall 2017)
Chloé Pascual, History Librarian, chloe.pascual@csulb.edu
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PAGE has an overview of research services available in the library
SUBJECT ENCYCLOPEDIAS and REFERENCE MATERIAL use these if you want to "go beyond wikipedia"
American Decades. 10 vols, print. Gale, 2001.
American Decades: Primary Sources. Online Encyclopedia 2004.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy Online encyclopedia. Scribner, c2002
Encyclopedia of American Immigration 4 print vols. M.E. Sharpe, c2001.
Encyclopedia of American Studies 4 print vols. Grolier Educational, 2001.
Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. 2 print vols. Scribner & Sons, 2004.
Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Online encyclopedia.CQ Press, 2010.
Encyclopedia of Law & Society : American and Global Perspectives 3 print vols. Sage Publications, 2007.
Encyclopedia of the United States in the 19th Century. 3 vols. 2001.
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations 4 print vols. Oxford University Press, 1997
Global Connections : America's Role In the 21st Century. 1 vol, print. CQ Press, c2002.
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Mulitethnic American Literature. 5 vols., print. Greenwood Press, 2005.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Online Encyclopedia, 2013.
Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. 3 print vols. Scribners, 1999.
Women and Music in America Since 1900. 2 vols., print, Greenwood 2002.
FINDING BOOKS, DVDs, MAPS
OneSearch drop down to Books (CSULB) Provides access to our 1.25 million University Library books, some over 500 years old.
For more relevant search results try using this OneSearch strategy to find subject words. The terms you search will be tagged for higher relevancy; they will be subject keywords. And you place an asterisk* at the end of the word, you will catch all word variants. So if you type in SPORT* you will get sport, sporting, sports, sportsman, etc,
united states and music* and culture*
united states and identity and history
More examples relating to cultural topics:
united states identity motion pictures
If you get results using any of the above techniques, you can get even more items at other CSU campuses by selecting Books (all CSU)
BOOK AND JOURNAL LOANING OPTIONS FROM OTHER LIBRARIES
RETROSPECTIVE (HISTORIC FULL-TEXT) ARTICLE DATABASE
CURRENT RESEARCH DATABASES
To find the articles in databases, look for the SFX link in each citation. It may look like this
CITING HISTORICAL MATERIALS, STYLES SEARCH ENGINES
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