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Political Science - A LIBRARY GUIDE
______________________________________________________________________________________________ To search for books,
identify a subject heading from the Library
of Congress Subject Headings and enter it in the search box
of the online library catalog as a subject (e g. Political culture--United
States--History--19th century). You
might also search by keyword and then 'follow' a linked subject heading
found with a full catalog record related to the keyword. In your research you will likely want to use both primary sources and secondary sources. Primary sources are documents of history such as letters, governmental records (i. e. The Congressional Record), speeches, texts of laws legal rulings, treaties and Presidential papers. A primary source may also be the words of “the first recorders of an event” (Jacques Barzun, The modern researcher . Fifth edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), p.114 ). Secondary sources are documents about history. The author(s) did not participate in the event about which they write. Textbooks are examples of secondary sources. Some representative examples of primary sources in the library include: Testimony of witnesses: The Richard M. Nixon Impeachment Hearings 353.036 Un3t Hoover, Herbert Addresses upon the American road 973.9 H769 Jefferson, Thomas The republic of letters : the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826 973.4092 J359 Harrison, Maureen Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court Note: Try the subject term (country name History Sources)
for catalog records of selected original sources held in the library.
As in: Great Britain history sources) REFERENCE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY The following Reference Titles may be helpful during the beginning of your research process. R 342.73 En19 R 348.7303 W529 R 340.03 St89s Yearbooks and Almanacs R 353.905 B64 347.732603 _Ox2 R 347.7326 W783c 1990 R 973 An72 R 328.73 C76 R 328.73 C76 2003 To search for articles, consider the following databases, links to which may be found at the library Web Page: http://library.morningside.edu/index.htm Academic Search Premier by EBSCO includes over 3,800 full-text peer reviewed journals from a variety of academic disciplines. Newspaper Source by EBSCO provides access to the full text of over 200 newspapers. GPO Access by OCLC FirstSearch is a ‘repackaged’ version of the U.S. Government Printing Office’s database of government documents. Many can be accessed online by checking for any URL’s that may be included with a citation record. Lexis-Nexis is a news, business, health, legal and reference database. Of particular note is the collection of legal materials including full-text court rulings and law journals. Top of Page
Librarians Index
to the Internet: Government & Law Social Science
Information Gateway: Politics
The
Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law History and Diplomacy Core Documents
of U.S. Democracy American
Memory Project: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library University
of Michigan Document Center: FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS Constitutions, Laws,
and Treaties
Stateline.org:
Your Source for State News Iowa Official State Web Site
FirstGov.gov: The U.S. Government’s
Official Web Portal Thomas Legislative
Information on the Internet
Legal
Information Institute of Cornell University: Supreme Court Collection
Political
Science Resources Think Tanks |
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