1. HST 480 War, Race, and Identity in United States History Spring 2013 Michael Unsworth History Librarian unsworth@msu.edu

2. Why You Are Here Final Project=

3. FEBRUARY 4

4. OUTLINE February 4 Online Reference Tools Finding materials: Online Catalog America; History & Life / Historical Abstracts Small Group Project Discussion of Project Locating Bibliographies Individual Research February 11 Locating Primary Sources Other Resources Individual Research

5. Small Group Project: Sample Reference Books The home front encyclopedia : United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II American pop : popular culture decade by decade U.S. low-intensity conflicts 1899-1990 a study Encyclopedia of racism in the United States Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American & Philippine-American wars Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history

6. BIBLIOGRAPHIES “…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, 1945-1985 (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987): xi.

7. FROM A WORK: FROM THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

8. FINDING BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

12. FEBRUARY 11

13. 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.” SOURCE: Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.

14. CAUTION: MEMOIRS

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16. CATALOG SEARCH BY DATE OF PUBLICATION

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18. SOURCES USED IN A WORK cover & bib

19. sourcesmanuscripts archivesnotebooks, sketchbooks, etc. archival resourcespersonal narratives, American Chinese, Finnish correspondencepersonnel records diariesrecords and correspondence

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21. Opac sources

22. PRIMARY SOURCES: Printed Compilation

23. PRIMARY SOURCES: Personal Narratives

24. QUESTIONS

25. What was/were the most valuable thing(s) you learned today?

26. What are you not quite clear about from today’s session; what is muddy in your head?

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