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Finding Books
Reference books can provide bibliographies, which are lists of relevant books and articles, and topic overviews. Looking through reference books may help you define your topic more clearly and help you focus in on what interests you the most about your topic.Some Useful Reference Books
Browse the given call number ranges for other titles.
General
Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. Call number: REF E169.1 .E624 2001Encyclopedia of American Studies. Call number: REF E169.1 .E625 2001
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Call number: REF F209 .N47 2006
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Call number: REF F209 .E53 1989
American Eras. Volumes in the ranges REF E58 and REF E162-E168
American Decades. Call number: REF E169.12 .A419
American Icons: An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture. Call number: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS REF E169.1 .A472155 2006
Communication and the arts
Call number range: Various
American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators. Call number: REF PS408 .A47 2005History of the Mass Media in the United States. Call number: REF P92 .U5 H54 1998
Encyclopedia of Television. Call number: REF PN1992.18 .E53 2004
A Chronicle of American Music, 1700-1995. Call number: REF ML200 .H15 1996
Identities and Issues in Literature. Call number: REF PS153 .M56 I34 1997
History of the American Cinema. Call number: REF PN1993.5 .U6 H55
Spirituality and religion
Call number range: REF BL2462-BL2525
Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. Call number: REF BL2525 .E53 1987Contemporary American Religion. Call number: REF BL2525 .C65 2000
Immigration and multiculturalism
See call number ranges REF E76-E156 and REF E184-E186 for titles on specific cultural groups.
Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Call number: REF JV6465 .E53 2000Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Call number: REF E184 .A1 G14 2000
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (online)
American families: gender and sexuality
Call number range: REF HQ9-HQ770
The Family in America: An Encyclopedia. Call number: REF HQ536 .H365 2001Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (online)
Popular culture
Call number range: REF E169
The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Call number: REF E169.1 .D399 2001The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. Call number: REF E169.1 .H2643 2002
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Call number: REF E169.1 .S764 2000
Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture. Call number: REF E169.12 .E49 2001
A Century of American Icons: 100 Products and Slogans from the 20th-Century Consumer Culture. Call number: REF HF6161 .B4 C46 2002
Book-length bibliographies
American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography. Call number: REF Z1361 .C6 A436 1986Sources for American Studies. Call number: REF E175 .S58 1983
American Social History Before 1860. Call number: REF Z1361 .C6 G7
American Social History Since 1860. Call number: REF Z1361 .C6 B7
Other Books
Search for other reference books and circulating books in the College's Online Catalog and the I-Share Catalog. Start your search by doing an Advanced Search for your topic or a Subject search with standard Subject headings. Some relevant Subject headings are:
- United States--Civilization
- United States--Social life and customs
When you request an item from another I-Share library, use the 14-digit barcode number on your college ID.
Searching for Articles in Databases
Start your search for articles with the following databases.
Some databases contain the full-text of articles. JSTOR and Project Muse are full-text databases for scholarly articles across a range of disciplines:
JSTORProject Muse
Some databases contain full-text articles from magazines or newspapers from a given time period:
Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), full-text articles and images from the nineteenth-century American popular magazineChicago Tribune Historical (1849-1985), full-text articles from the Chicago Tribune newspaper
Other databases may contain the full-text of some articles and the citation records only of other articles. If a database does not contain the full-text of an article, be sure to click on the "Find It--Check Lake Forest College" link to see what access the Library has to that article. The article might be in another online database or in our print holdings.
Academic Search Premier for good general researchMLA Bibliography for research in literature
America: History & Life for scholarly articles in American history
Sociological Abstracts for the citation records of scholarly articles in sociology and related fields
If the College does not have the article online or in print, you can fill out an Interlibrary Loan request for the article. Please allow 14 days to receive an article.
For additional databases, including the Chicago Tribune (1985-present), go to the Library's list of databases. A few databases require passwords. For passwords, call the Reference Desk at ext. 5074.
Relevant Journals
List of Journals
in American Studies
Use the
"Find Journals" page to see if the College has access to a given journal.
Relevant Web Sites
American Studies
Web is the largest bibliography of web-based resources in the field
of American Studies.
Noteworthy Online Primary Source Collections:
AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American HistoryAmerican Memory from the Library of Congress
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Making of America
History Matters: Many Pasts
American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the Civil War
Documenting the American South
Useful Hints for Using Web Primary Sources:
Using Primary Sources on the WebOther Useful Websites:
The American ExperienceAmerican Masters
American Roots Music
History Now: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement