HISTORY FAIR RESOURCES
Last Updated Sept. 2009
Primary sources:
-Historic documents,
eg .Annals of America, Historic
Documents, Great American Speeches, etc.
-Diaries, memoirs,
letters or journals
-Eyewitness accounts
of the event or from the time
found in books, magazines or newspapers
-Interviews of people from the era found in books, magazines or newspapers
Books: Use the online book catalog.
Search by subject.
-Non-fiction: general
history is the 900s, but you
can also find the history of specific subject areas,
e.g. sports history in 700s, science
history in 500s, social history in 300s, etc.
-Biographies: located
in Biography section (B);
collected bios in 920s
-Chicago history books
are generally located in
917.73 and 977.31 or 973.311
Reference
books: Use the online catalog or ask
the librarian for
assistance
-Biographical
encyclopedias, R 920-928
-Subject specific
references, e.g. Encyclopedia
of World Religions, Encyclopedia
of American Social History,
Lincoln
Library of Sports Champions,
Halliwell's
Film Guide, etc.
-History encyclopedias
and dictionaries, R 900-
-American history
reference books and encyclopedias,
R 973 -
-Illinois and Chicago
history reference and
encyclopedias, R 977- (eg. Encyclopedia of Chicago R 977.311)
-Time-lines,
chronologies, and almanacs, e.g. The
Timetables of Technology,
Chronicle
of America, Chronicle
of
the Twentieth
Century, This Day in
Sports, etc.
- Use Gale Virtual Reference Library to search a large full-text Reference e-book collection online
Newspaper
Sources:
-Birth of America, Forging a More Perfect Union, the Federalist Years: indexes to colonial and United States
newspaper microfilm from 1756s –1800, see periodical reference area.
-Large online newpaper collections in Proquest,
Ebsco, and Newsbank, provide full-text
articles from
international,
national and regional newspapers. Check title
lists and date ranges.
-Chicago
Tribune, Sun-Times and Daily Herald : hard-copy at desk and full-text in Newsbank's Chicagoland
Newspapers
Magazine Sources:
-American Heritage
Magazine: index volume
located in
periodical reference area
-Other history
magazines,
e.g. American History,
Smithsonian, History
Today, Magazine of
History,
Negro History Bulletin, Jrnl. of Modern History, Jrnl. of American History, Jrnl. of World History,
Chicago History Magazine: (index at circ desk); also Illinois Historic Journal, Historic Illinois, Illinois Heritage,
Illinois
History, Illinois
Issues, Illinois
Magazine
-Use the following indexes and subscription databases to find magazine and journal articles:
-Reader's
Guide to Periodical Literature: indexes magazines1957-1986
-EBSCO
magazine archive online : indexes magazines 1980-present, provides
mostly
full-text
-Proquest Direct– online periodical index 1985-present provides mostly full-text
- First Search - use Wilson Select Plus online periodical index.
Other Online sources: use library homepage to launch these resources:
-American History
database-in ABC-CLIO
Social Studies online
-Facts on File World News Digest for archived news and some primary source documents
-Utilize the Social
Studies
Web pages from the Library's Web Subject Directory
-Chicago Historical
Society's homepage for digital
archives and image collections
- Chicago Public
Library's
digital collections on Chicago history