Secondary Sources - Books & Articles - HIST 302: New Histories of the Old South

Finding Books

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Catalog (Penn State University Libraries catalog) This link opens in a new window
Use to find books, videos, maps, music, microfilm titles, and other formats in the University Libraries' collections.
NOTE: you will not find articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals in The CAT.
This is the online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items is also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million records. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
LionSearch This link opens in a new window
An integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.

Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD)
If Penn State doesn't have what you need, use Interlibrary Loan to request the materials from another library and have them delivered to Penn State.

Scholarly Articles

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Use to find articles written about United States history
Search for articles on all aspects of the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Articles from national, state and local historical journals are covered, as well as historical articles in major humanities and social science journals. Also includes citations to reviews, books, and dissertations. Keywords: African-American, Afro-American, Black, Hispanic, Latino, Colonial, Pennsylvania, Native Americans, women, gender, revolution, revolutionary war, civil war, Vietnam War, Cold War, World War I, World War II, Immigration, Immigrants, labor, agriculture, culture, society, politics, religion, economic, military, historiography.
LionSearch This link opens in a new window
an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text including back issues of many key history journals.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. While indexing for JSTOR articles is covered in LionSearch, the full text of the articles is not searched in LionSearch. Search JSTOR itself to ensure detailed coverage of full texts.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Covers a range of scholarly sources; articles, technical reports, and papers. Set your institution to Penn State under Settings to be linked to full-text content paid for by the Library.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.