HST 326: US Foreign Relations, Spring 2013 Michael Unsworth History Librarian

Why You Are Here Book Discussion = 50 points Critical Book Review =150 points 200 points

OUTLINE Critical Book Review Finding scholarly articles Reference tools Online catalog searching Finding and using a bibliography Foreign Relations of the US Questions

Critical Book Review “contribute to the understanding of international relations history” = Historiography What has been written Dominant themes Original Research versus Synthesis Use of primary sources Current and future research

Future Research?? “I conclude that priorities for future research include the construction of hypotheses on the framing of foreign policy decisions and research designs for testing them; the incorporation of framing, loss aversion, and the reflection effect into theories of collective and interactive decision making; and experimental research that is sensitive to the political and strategic context of foreign policy decision making.” Jack S. Levy, “Prospect Theory, Rational Choice, and International Relations,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Mar., 1997): 107.International Studies Quarterly

Finding Articles Topic: 1919 Paris Peace Conference

Article Reach

14 Digit ID Number

ArticleReach

Reference tools Topic: United Fruit Company

SEARCHING THE ONLINE CATALOG

“…the compiler of a BIBLIOGRAPHY acts as a scholarly research assistant, providing a summary of what is available in one easy-to-use guide.” Meyer, Jack Allen. An annotated bibliography of the Napoleonic era: recent publications, (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987): xi.

BIBLIOGRAPHY & AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS

RESULTS: BIBLIOGRAPHY & AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS

PRIMARY SOURCES: Definition “…items that are directly associated with their producer or user and the time period in which they were created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.” Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.

CAUTION: MEMOIRS

SOURCES USED IN A WORK

GUIDE: REEL V

REEL V

sourcesmanuscripts archivesnotebooks, sketchbooks, etc. archival resourcespersonal narratives correspondencepersonnel records diariesrecords and correspondence

U.S. Intervention in Haiti

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CITATION FOR A BOOK Rock, Stephen R. Why Peace Breaks Out: Great Power Rapprochement in Historical Perspective. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

CITATION FOR AN ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL Schroeder, Michael J. “Bandits and Blanket Thieves, Communists and Terrorists: The Politics of Naming Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and ,” Third World Quarterly; 26, no.1 (2005): 67-86

CITATION FOR AN ARTICLE IN A BOOK M.V. Bezeau, “Strategic Cooperation: The Canadian Commitment to the Defense of Alaska in the Second World War” in Alaska at War, : the Forgotten War Remembered, ed. Fern Chandonney. (Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska at War Committee, 1995),