Theme-Based Inquiry Seminars
Staging Reality
Kelly Duhatsch

Print Resources
Electronic Resources
Internet Resources
Library Services
Web Evaluation

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth Act V Scene V

Print Resources
Historical
General European History
Encyclopedia of World History D21.E53 2001
The Cambridge Medieval History D117.C32
Dictionary of the Middle Ages D114.5 1982
English History
The Oxford Companion to British History DA34.O93 1997
Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World DA357.W34 1999
Daily Life in Elizabethan England DA320.S56 1995
Scottish History
Who's Who in Scottish History DA 758.D66
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History DA757.9 O946 2001
Shakespeare
All Things Shakespeare : An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World PR2892 .O56 2002
The Readers Encyclopedia of Shakespeare PR2892.C3
Who's Who in Shakespeare PR2989.Q4 1995
Pronouncing Shakespeare Words PR3081.C87 1998
Electronic Resources

Database containing some full text articles
Catalog
Resource Discription Searching Tips and Suggest Terms
Polk Catalog The online catalog contains the holding of Polk Library, including the main collection, government documents and the EMC.
  • "middle ages", medieval, "Great Britain", 1603, Scotland, 1047, Elizabeth, James, "social conditions", religion
Periodical Indexes
Resource Discription Searching Tips and Suggest Terms
Academic
Search

Academic Search is a general index which includes articles on a wide range of subject, indexing both popular and scholarly journals. and is a useful place to start your research.

Link from the History Resources page
  • Use the And operator to narrow your search
    middle ages and Great Britian
Humanities
Full-text

Index of scholarly journals in a wide range of fields in the area of the humanities, including Literature, History and Religion. Some full-text available.

Link from the History Resources page

  • To limit your search, search in the abstract or subjects
  • Uses subject heading similiar to the catalog
JSTOR

Provides electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humnaities, social sciences and science. currenly there are 117 titles accessible in the JSTOR collection

Link from the History Resources page

History Electronic
Book Project

Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000-1306
by G. W. S Barrow

Link from the History Resources page

  • Will also you to search the full text of the book
    • Ex. macbeth
Electronic Reference
Resource Discription Searching Tips and Suggest Terms
Oxford Online
Reference

Online versions of over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books. Coverage of a broad range of subjects: from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.

Link from the History Resources page

Usefull reference materials

  • Dictionary of World History
  • A Dictionary of British History
  • The Oxford Compnaion to British History
  • A Dictionary of Shakespeare
  • The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary
  • The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
Internet Resources
Historical
Shakespeare
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