History 351: Women's History
This guide is designed to help you quickly become
familiar with some of the basic sources in History which are available at
our library. Here we just include a representative overview of the kinds
of materials that you can use. While this is not a complete list,
you may find this a useful starting place for your research.If you have
any questions, please contact Allen Reichert at 823-1164 or email
.
| Background Material |
| Primary Magazines |
| Online Magazines (Database subscriptions) |
| Online Magazines (Free Internet sites) |
| Other Possible Sources |
| Citation Help |
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Example -A sample research project
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Background Material - The following is a select list of encyclopedias that can give you a quick glimpse at the era or event which interests you.
Online
- Women in Early America -- "The goal of this encyclopedia is to highlight the research that illuminates the world of early American women and make it available to the general reader."
- Encyclopedia of women social reformers
- Women in the American Civil War
- From suffrage to the Senate
In Print
- Dictionary of American History (2003) 10 volume set. Reference E174 .D52 2003 -- The standard for encyclopedias about American History.
- American Decades 10 volume set. Reference E169.12 .A419 1994 -- One volume for each decade, this series is organized by chronology.
- The Sixties in America 3 volume set. Reference E841 .S55 1999 --Good for NOW, not so good for Carry Nation.
- Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal 2 volume set. Reference E806 .C543 2001 -- Good for Eleanor Roosevelt, not so good for NOW.
- American Women's History -- Reference HQ1115 .W4 -- "An A to Z of people, organizations, issues and events."
Primary Magazines - This select list of magazines are ones that we have in our library. They would be considered primary sources and are periodicals. The dates in parentheses are the years available at our library. The magazines are in alphabetical order on the second floor. There may be other titles in our collection as well. A few gaps simply means that there might be a year or a few issues missing within the run of years. Magazines on microfilm are also housed on the second floor over by the West Study room. If there is a specfic title you are looking for, please check the A-Z List.
- Atlantic Monthly (1857 - present) Literary, social and political topics
- American Magazine (1909-1933) Literature, popular culture
- Business Week (1963 - present)
- Better Homes & Gardens (1964-1984, 1994-1996) Gardening and interior design
- The Cosmopolitan (1897 -1906) Not what you think. fiction, current events.
- Country Life (1905-1930)
- Ebony(1965-1972, Microform 1974-1988) African American culture
- Essence (1971-1984) African American women, general interest
- Good Housekeeping (1951-1996, a few gaps) General home economics
- Golden Book Magazine (1926-1930, 1932-1933) Current events, literature, popular culture
- Holiday (1946-1977, a few gaps) Travel
- House Beautiful (1962-1996, a few gaps) Interior design
- Readers Digest (1927- present, a few gaps)
- Sports Illustrated (1954-1987, Microform 1986-1996)
- The Survey (1909-1951) Arts, current events
- The Nation (1933-1966, Microform 1966-1996) Politics, current events
- Living Age (1870-1941) Also Littell's Living Age, reprints of literature and current events
- Ladies Home Journal (1899-1994) Home economics
- Ms. (Microform 1972-1989) Feminism
- Harpers (1850- present) Literature, current events, politics
- Look (1964-1971) Coffee table format - photography and popular culture
- Life (1936-1937, 1959-1972) Coffee table format - photography and popular culture
- US News and World Report (Microform 1933-1961, paper 1961- present)
- Vogue (1965-1972, 1975-1986, 1991-1993) Fashion
- National Geographic (1910- present)
- New Republic (1914-1967, Microform 1961-1996) Current events
- New Yorker (1948-1973, microform 1973- present) New York focus, but also arts, popular culture
- Newsweek (1960- present)
- The Outlook (1897-1932) Current events
- Parents Magazine (1949-1972)
- Travel (1919-1933) Well, it's about, um, travel
- Time (Microform 1923-1936, paper 1937-1986, microform 1987-1996)
- The Arena (1890-1905) International affairs, politics
- Arts and Decoration (1916-1938) Home economics
- Century Magazine (1882-1930) Arts, literature, some current events
- Contemporary Review (1891-1995) Politics, international affairs
- Eclectic Magazine (1853-1854, 1890-1894) Reprints from other journals of literature and current events
- The Forum (1886-1932) International affairs
- Horizon (1958-1988) Arts
- Illustrated World (1916-1923) Popular culture
- McClures Magazine (1894-1914) Current events, literature
- New England Quarterly (1891-2003) Arts, culture and politics around New England
Sometimes, you can find these articles using an electronic or a print guide. In print, we have the following guides in Reference that may help you find specific articles:
- Readers Guide (1900-1998)
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1815-1906)
If you find articles that you want, but are not available in our library, you can request them through Interlibrary Loan(ILL). ILL can take 7-10 days, although it is usually faster, and the article will be sent to your Otterbein email account as a pdf file. Or, if you don't mind driving, you could see if the Columbus Metropolitan Library or Ohio State have the older magazine you are looking for.
Online Magazines (Database Subscriptions) -The following resources are collected in databases that the library pays a yearly fee to access. They can provide you with full text articles from the years covered.
- HarpWeek (1857-1871) - An important newspaper from the Civil War era.
- American Periodical Series (1740-1900)- "digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals"
- JSTOR - This is a full text scholarly archive, and some journals go back to the last 19th century.
- Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals - 1800-1900 "... online index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. The journals indexed represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. Since entire journal contents are indexed — articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements — the index is a valuable source of information on popular culture and industry." Remember, you can use ILL to get articles you want from this index.
Online Magazines (Free Internet) - this is a select list of Internet sites that offer the full text of magazines.
- American Women's History: A Research Guide- "Digital Collections of Primary Sources" Look specfically at Women's Periodicals and Newspaper Collections.
- Making of America - University of Michigan "a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
- Resources for Research: Periodicals - annotated list of links to historical magazines.
- American Women: Serial and Government Publications Division - Library of Congress finding guide to their material. Here is the direct link to search this collection.
- Women Working (1800-1930) - "digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections." Some magazines are included, but it may be hard to focus just on articles.
- New York Times (1857 - present)- We have this on microfilm back to 1857 up on the second floor near the West study room. It is also available online from the Westerville Public Library, but only if you have a library card through them.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 - If you browse by sources you can look just for journal articles. There does not seem to be a good way to search just by journal article, although you can search by advertisement or editorial.
- The Social and Cultural Construction of Girls- books and guides for girls that span 1790s through 1914. These materials are on microfilm, and are on the second floor near the West study room.
- Columbus Metropolitan Library - This is a large public library that will have long runs of popular periodicals.
- Ohio State Library - This is another library that may have a lot of holdings of popular periodicals.
Citation Help - Not sure how to format your paper? These sources may help.
Books
Chicago Manual of Style (2003) - Otterbein Reference Z253 .U69 2003 The Blair Handbook (2003) - PE1408 .F78 2003 We have one copy in reference, two copies on reserve and one copy in the main collection. Raimes, Ann. Keys for Writers (2005) Main Collection PE1408 .R16 2005 Lunsford, Andrea. The Everyday Writer (2005) PE1408 .L86 2005 We have one copy in reference and two copies on reserve. Online
- Bedford/ St. Martin - A useful online guide from a large publisher.
- Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper - From Duke University libraries, this guide is divided by type of item you are citing.
- RefWorks - Listed under databases from the library home page, you will need to create an account, but this powerful tool can save records and format your bibliography in Chicago Style. If interested, contact a librarian or see the Refworks tutorial.