Barnard College Library
 Research Guide

BC1274: Persuasion and Power
Professor Alexa Jervis

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn delivering a speech (1913).
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/about.html

 
Reference Books | Online Indexes and Databases
Useful Websites | Request a Consultation

 

Searching CLIO
  • For a TITLE search, leave off the initial article (the, an, le, etc.)
  • For an AUTHOR search, put last name, then first name
  • For a KEYWORD search, you must use and, or or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase
  • Works on rhetoric have call numbers starting with P301 and PN172-239.

REFERENCE RESOURCES  

Title Barnard Reference Call Number
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
 Reader's Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Abstracts

AI3 .R48
Dictionary of the History of Ideas CB5 .D52
World War II books D740s
Europe Since 1945: an Encyclopedia D1051 .E97 2001g
American Decades Primary Sources E169.1 .A471977 2004
A Companion to American Thought E169.1 .C685 1995
Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History E169.1 .E624 2001
American Decades E169.12 .A4196 1996
Civil Rights in the United States E184.A1 C47 2000
African American history books E185s
New Day/New Deal: a Bibliography of the Great American Depression, 1929-1941 E784 .K95 1988g
Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal E806 .C543 2001
The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt: a Selected Bibliography of Periodical, Essay, and Dissertation Literature, 1945-1971 E806 .S73 1974g
The Sixties in America E841 .S55 1999
The Kennedy Literature: a Bibliographical Essay on John F. Kennedy E842 .C76 1968g
Protest, Power, and Change: an Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage HM278 .P76 1997
Women in World History: a Biographical Encyclopedia HQ1115 .W6 1999
From Suffrage to the Senate: an Encyclopedia of American Women in Politics HQ1236.5.U6 S32 1999
Encyclopedia of Women in American History HQ1410 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric PN172 .E52 2001
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age PN172 .E53 1996
African American Biographical Database -- biographies of African Americans living between 1790 and 1950.
African American Women: a Biographical Dictionary -- biographies of African American women from the Colonial era to the present.
American National Biography -- biographies of notable men and women from all eras of American history.


ONLINE INDEXES AND DATABASES

The Databases (Reference Works & Indexes) list, which you can access from the Barnard Library home page or Columbia LibraryWeb, gives links to indexes for finding citations to journal articles.  The following will probably be the most relevant to your research:

America: History & Life
Coverage of United States and Canada, prehistory to the present, published after 1982. Citations, usually with abstracts from articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations.

American Memory
A rich collection of images and full-text documents relating to U.S. history and culture from the Library of Congress.

American Periodical Series
Searchable full-text and page images of several hundred American periodicals of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Cambridge Journals Online
Full-text journals published by Cambridge University Press.

CATNYP: The Research Libraries On-Line Catalog
The online catalog of the New York Public Libraries Research Libraries.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Full-text articles and reports about women.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S.

Guides to Microforms (Primary Sources in U.S. History)
Guides to microform sets in American history, foreign relations, women's studies.

HarpWeek
Full text and page images of the popular illustrated 19th-century American periodical.

Historical Newspapers Online
Electronic form of the indexes to the London Times and the New York Times. When complete the indexes will offer coverage as follows: Official Index to the Times (London) 1906-1980; Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1790-1905; Historical Index to the New York Times 1851-1923.

iPoll
Poll/survey questions and responses.

JSTOR
Full-text articles from more than 320 scholarly journals, from the first issue of each journal (including some started in the late nineteenth century) up to 3 to 5 years ago.  Only the science and social science articles have abstracts, so searching in the title is the most direct search for articles in humanities journals; searching for a term in the full text of an article will often find too many irrelevant articles     

LEO (Library Entrance Online)
The online catalog of the NYPL Branch Libraries including The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Circulating (Lending) Collections.

MLA Bibliography
Citations from literature, linguistics, language, film, and folklore from 1963-present.

The Nation Digital Archive
Searchable full text and page images of a major U.S. journal of left/liberal opinion, 1865-1999.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Includes several 19th-century periodical indexes and the New York Daily Tribune Index (1875-1906).

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Full-text searchable database of personal writings, 1700-1950.

PCI: Periodicals Contents Index
An international, interdisciplinary index, especially useful for finding articles published in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.

Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences

ProQuest Direct
Full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers and periodicals in many disciplines, including international affairs, law, psychology, public affairs, sociology, women's studies, from 1988 to the present.  For scholarly journals, click on "Databases selected" at top, clear all databases and select PA Research II Periodicals, click on "Continue" at top, and select Advanced Search.

Reader's Guide Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles in popular and general-interest periodicals, 1983 to the present.

Reader's Guide Retrospective
Citations to articles in popular and general-interest periodicals, 1890-1982.

Women's Studies International
Citations from 1972-present for materials related to women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism.

WorldCat
WorldCat is a composite online catalog of the collections of the 24,000 member libraries of the OCLC consortium, comprising more than 36 million records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts -- citations and abstracts articles in political science journals.

 

USEFUL WEBSITES

Barnard Sites:
 History, Literature, Politics / Government, and Women's Studies guides.

World Wide Web:
Try doing an advanced search using the search engine of your choice. Consider searching Librarians' Index to the Internet.

 

Updated 2/20/04
Jenna Freedman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library