History 300 Historical Imagination

HIST 300: HISTORICAL IMAGINATION (Johnson)

If you need more assistance finding resources, contact Graham Howard at (503) 725-4586 or grahh@pdx.edu. You can also find help at the ASK US! page.

Documents and Archives

Famous American Trials: The Salem Witch Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive Transcription Project
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft

The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692
KFM2478.8 .W5 S24 | 3rd Floor

Records of Salem Witchcraft, Copied From the Original Documents
BF1575 .R3 1864a | Basement

The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-bay, by Thomas Hutchinson
F67 .H985 | Basement

Find Magazine and Journal Articles

To find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, you will need to use one of the Library's print indexes or article databases. An index or article database will allow you to look for articles by title, by author, or by a few keywords that describe your topic. Most of the Library's electronic databases can be accessed from off-campus with your ODIN account.

Academic Search Premiere
A multidisciplinary database that includes full-text access to many of the journal articles. EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite has a broad scope and is an excellent starting source for finding journal articles.

America History & Life (1969-present)
Citations to articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Citations drawn from over 2,000 journals in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. Includes citations to book reviews (appearing in 100 major history journals) and dissertations.

ArticleFirst (1990-present)
Contains nearly two million bibliographic records from the tables of contents of more than 3,000 journals, covering a broad range of subjects including business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology. Most journals in ArticleFirst have been indexed from 1990 to the present.

Humanities Index
Cites articles from scholarly English-language publications in the Humanities field, including History.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as far back as 1907. Citations to more than 1,300,000 articles, including over 240,000 book reviews. This retrospective index has broad subject coverage from the both the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

Find Book Reviews

Most of the databases listed above will include book reviews if book reviews are included in the journals and magazines that are indexed in the database. There are also tools in print that are very useful for locating book reviews.

Book Review Digest (1906-present)
Z1219 .C95 | 2nd Floor
Indexes and excerpts book reviews published in popular magazines and newspapers. Entries in the main index are arranged by author of book. A subject and title index follows, arranged in one alphabetical sequence.

Book Review Index (1965-present)
Z1035.A1 B6 | 2nd Floor
Indexes book reviews from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers in many disciplines. Entries are arranged by author of book or by title when there is no primary author. A title index follows the main index.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974
Z1035 .A1 C65 | 2nd Floor
A source for retrospective book reviews in the humanities, citing over half a million reviews, book notes and book briefs. There are nine author volumes and one title volume. Author volumes are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name. The title index volume is arranged alphabetically by the first significant word in the title, and refers the user back to the main author index for the complete citation.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974
Z1035 .A1 C64 | 2nd Floor
A source for retrospective book reviews in history, political science and sociology, citing over a million reviews. There are twelve author volumes and three title volumes. Author volumes are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name. The title index volumes are arranged alphabetically by the first significant word in the title, and refer the user back to the main author index for the complete citation.

Biographical Sources

Who was who in America; historical volume, 1607-1896
E176 .W53 | 2nd Floor

American National Biography
CT213 .A68 | 2nd Floor

Wilson Biographies Plus
An online, full-text resource that contains more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects. The biographies are searchable by name, dates, professions, race, and many other categories.

Reference Sources & Bibliographies

The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft
BF1566 .G85 1989 | 2nd Floor

Magic, Witchcraft, and Paganism in America: A Bibliography
Z6878 .M3 M44 1992 | 2nd Floor

Witchcraft Bibliography Project
http://members.tripod.com/pagan_relief/Pages/witches_bibliography.htm

Find Books

When searching for books on a topic, your best choices in the Library catalog (VIKAT) are keyword searching and subject searching. Subject searching requires you to have some knowledge of the terms assigned to book topics by librarians. Some examples are listed below:

Witchcraft America History
Witchcraft Early works to 1800
Witchcraft Massachusetts
Witchcraft United States History
Superstition New England
Demonology Early works to 1800
Trials Witchcraft Massachusetts
Trials Witchcraft Massachusetts Salem

Keyword searching is a more flexible way of combining search terms to retrieve books on your topic. When using keywords, be sure to think of synonyms (or related terms) for your search terms. You can also combine terms with the word AND to make your results more relevant. For example:

salem and witchcraft and accused

When searching for primary sources on a topic, you can use a subject heading search or a keyword search. Look for certain words in the subject heading:

Witchcraft History Sources
Mather Cotton 1663 1728 Diaries
Witches Interviews

Or do a keyword search and combine your topic with one of these words:

Cotton Mather and Diaries

Other terms you can use to retrieve primary sources are:

Personal narratives
Manuscripts
Archives
Correspondence

Remember, too, that you are not just limited to what we own in our Library. Whenever you are searching, you have the option of expanding your results by clicking on the SUMMIT button in the upper right hand corner of the results screen. This automatically redoes your search in the SUMMIT catalog of the ORBIS/CASCADE Alliance. If you find an item in that catalog that you'd like to see, click on the "REQUEST THIS ITEM" link and follow the directions on the screen.

If you cannot find what you need in the our catalog (VIKAT) or the catalog of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance (Summit), then you might try Worldcat.

WorldCat contains more than 30 millions records for materials cataloged by the Library of Congress and OCLC member libraries, including most academic and many public libraries in the U.S. Catalog includes books, serials (journals, magazines and newspapers), musical scores, recordings, videos, computer software, films, maps and manuscripts. Locations for all materials are cited. Can be searched by author, title, subject, year, language, material type.

Another useful source for this class is Early English Books Online. Millar Library has the electronic version of this resource, which contains digitized versions of over 125,000 English books published between 1475 and 1700.