HIST 4330: Women in America since 1870 Guide

Overview

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Books

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New Library Catalog In 2009 we added a new interface to our catalog. It still identifies books (including online books), journal titles, government documents, music, videos, maps, and other items in the University Libraries. It can still be searched by title, author, subject, but now you can choose the format and location in your first search. There are easy ways of narrowing your search in the left column, it offers "did you mean" spelling, favorite lists, and lets you tag items with your own labels.

Subject Headings for HIST 4330 Use the Basic search to look for some of these subject headings:
Cookery, American
Etiquette
Home economics
Sermons, American

In the Advanced Search, try using some of these terms:
Women
Ladies
Girls
AND
Advice
Etiquette
Handbook
Manual

Article Databases

America: History and Life Indexes and abstracts 2,100 journals, book and media reviews, and dissertations about the history and culture of the US and Canada. Searches by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage from 1964 to the present. Updated monthly.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. Some of these periodicals published short stories and book reviews.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref.) 1904-98
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Nineteenth-Century Masterfile An index to over 8 million articles from popular and scholarly journals published between 1802 and 1906. Based on Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, the Masterfile adds periodicals, books, newspapers, U.S. and U.K. government documents, and U.S. patents not found in the old print index. This is not a full text database. Use Find it @ WMU or search under the "Journals" tab for the item in the library or through Interlibrary Loan.

Historical Sources

Historical Newspapers Search all of these newspapers at once or individually for full-text articles in this index:
Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1939)
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975)
Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986)
Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1995)
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
The New York Times (1851 - 2005)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1991)
The Washington Post (1877 - 1992)

HarpWeek Full-text as well as images from the important American magazine Harper's Weekly. Coverage: 1857-1912.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century Eventually this database will contain the full-text of major 19th century African-American newspapers providing first-hand stories by way of biographies as well as statistics, essays, editorials, and advertisements serving as primary source historical documentation. Search individual newspapers or group together.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries Over 150,000 pages of published and unpublished diaries and letters by over 1,300 women in the US and Canada from the colonial period to 1950. All ethnic groups, ages, classes, and geographical regions are included. Users can search by keyword, time period, place, marital status, nationality, and other variables.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition A collection of full text books, pamphlets, articles, documents and images of American women's reform movements over the last 400 years including special subjects such as African-American Women and the Equal Rights Debate in the 1920s. Includes the bibliographic dictionary Notable American Women 1907-1950.
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Selected Journals

Older magazines Good Housekeeping 1965 (TX1 .G7) In storage 1941-1953
Harper's Bazaar (fashion) 1969- (TT500 .H3)
Holiday 1946-1977 (AP2 .H592)
Ladies Home Journal 1955- (AP2 .L135) Microfilm 1883-1973 (AP 6)
Mademoiselle 1964-2001 (AP2 .M2334)
McCall's 1967-2001 (TT500 .M2)
Redbook 1979-1988 (AP2 .R28) In storage 1967-1979
Vanity Fair 1986-2000 (AP2 .V3) In storage 1913-1936
Vogue 1965- (TT500 .V7)

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Last updated: August 2009