Theme Based Inquiery Seminar
Is American Higher Education Climbing Higher?
Dr. Breck Speers

Print Resources
Electronic Resources
Internet Resources
Library Department & Services

Print Resources

History  
  Dictionary of American Biography E176.D563
  Dictionary of American History E174 .D52 1976
  American Decades: Primary Sources E169.1.A471977 2004
  Daily Life in Colonial New England F7J59 2003
Education  
  Princetonians LD4601.M32
  Encyclopedia of American Education LB17.U54 2001
Religion  
  Dictionary of Christianity in America BR515 D53 1990
  Encyclopedia of American Religious History BL2525.Q44 1996
Electronic Resources

Database containing some full text articles

Catalogs
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Polk Catalog The online catalog contains the holding of Polk Library, including the main collection, government documents and the EMC. "Harvard University History" "Princeton University History" "Freedom of Religion" "18th Century" "Church and State"
Periodical Indexes
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Academic
Search

Academic Search is a general index which includes articles on a wide range of subject, indexing both popular and scholarly journals.

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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
America: History and Life

A bibliographic reference to the history fo the United States andCanada from prehistory to the Present. Includes reference to reginal history publications.

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Puritans, Harvard University, Colleges and Universities, Higher Education

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

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When searching select the history collection
Electronic Reference
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Oxford Reference OnlineOnline 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.

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Usefull reference materials
  • Dictionary of World History
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary
  • The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
Internet Resources
Search Engines and Subject Directories
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Library Department & Services
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