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History Course Guides: History 499 Riots Strikes Conspiracies

Course Guides Used for Library Instruction in History Research

History 499 Library Instruction Handout

History 499, Riots, Strikes Conspiracies (Spring 2024)
Chloé Pascual, History Librarian Chloe.Pascual@csulb.edu
Contact via (E-mail, Arrange Chat or Zoom Appointment) 
 

For additional research options, see the United States History Research Guide 

REFERENCE BOOKS

FINDING BOOKS IN ONESEARCH 

OneSearch Search Techniques 

  • If you are looking for a phrase "chicano moratorium" put your terms in quotation marks. It will force word adjacency, in that order.
  • If you want word variants, use an asterisk* at the end of a word. Entering imperial* will produce imperial, imperialism, imperialist. 
  • If you want synonyms, put similar terms in parenthesis and use capital OR. (hegemony OR "post imperial*" OR postcolonial OR globalism)

To get results with higher relevancy to you topic, use subject keyword searches. These may produce results with higher relevancy to your search.

ADDITIONAL SEARCH TIPS

1. If you place an asterisk* at the end of the word, you will catch all word variants. So if you type in word*, it will find all subject headings using the terms: word or words or wordiness or wordy or wordsmith, etc. (Don't use the asterisk a google search. It does not work)

2. Use quotation marks to find a phrase or force word adjacency;  "slave rebellion",  or "race riot"  

3. If you want synonyms in a search, capitalize OR (slaves OR servitude OR bondage OR indentured)

FINDING HISTORY BOOKS (print and online)

Use OneSearch Book Search to find books and media we have.

If you want higher relevancy in your results, try a OneSearch Subject Keyword Search for terms within a subject heading, and will result in highly relevant books.

Try some of these subject keyword combinations below in conjunction with an a secondary topic of interest.

suffrag*     movement*     environment*     protests     protester*     activist*     countercultur*   radical*     riot*     social change     hippie*     progressiv*     feminis*    civil rights     liberation
 
For finding primary materials, use some of these subject keywords below with another topic of interest:

sources      personal narrative*     interview*      diaries      oral histor*       biograph*     correspondence      papers      letters

  • Using any of the above techniques, also conduct the exact same search using CSU+ to find even more materials at nearby CSU libraries.

  • Use ARCHIVESGRID will find archival repositories around the U.S.

ONLINE RESEARCH DATABASES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES AND NEWSPAPERS AND DOCUMENTS red dates mean potential primary source info

GOOGLE SEARCH TECHNIQUES

 

site:edu (for U.S. academic sites)

site:gov (for government sites

site:org (for nonprofit organizations, museums, institutes)

site:int (for international organizations such as UN

 

Use Google Scholar to find a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarly journals. You may be able to open many of these articles if searching on our campus (since it knows our IP address and what we subscribe to.)

 

 

FINDING FULL TEXT PRIMARY MATERIALS IN GOOGLE BOOKS

  • Google has scanned millions of books from libraries and institutes around the world. Generally, books published before the early 1920s are in the public domain and freely readable online, depending on Google's somewhat obscure criteria.
  • See this graphic showing how to find primary historical accounts of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. 

Now do your own search in Google Books.

 

 

ONLINE DOCUMENTS COVERING U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY

 

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