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HIS/AAS 332 African American History to the Civil War FALL 2005 |
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http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/prm/blforgottenpatriots1.htmSubject Specialist:
Bonnie Ryan,
Bird Library, Room 210,
O:315-443-4674,
bcryan@syr.edu
LIBRARY CONTACTS
SU Library website: http://library.syr.edu
Email (http://library.syr.edu/information/forms/ref_question.htm#ask)
LibChat Online Reference
Telephone, Bird Library Reference: 315-443-4083
Definitions of Primary and Secondary Sources
How do you tell the difference bewteen primary and secondary materials?
Here are some web sites from some universities and research institutions
that might help you to make that distinction:
How to Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources . University of California, Santa Cruz
The Learning Page. The Library of Congress
Primary Source Materials
Print Sources
The Black Abolitionist Papers
Bird-3rd Floor, Bird Call Number: E449 .B624 1985
M.L. King Lib-Sims - Reference (does not circulate) Library has: v.1-v.5
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States.
Location: Bird-Reference, 1st Floor (does not circulate) Call Number:
E185 .A58 Library has: v.1-v.3
Special Collection Holdings
Gerrit Smith Papers
Guide to the microfilm edition of the Peter Smith papers, 1763-1850, and Gerrit Smith papers, 1775-1924. Location: Bird-Reference, 1st Floor (does not circulate) Call Number: Z8822.15 .M5 1974
Gerrit Smith Papers, Dates: 1775-1924. Location: Bird-Spec Coll, Manuscripts
Electronic Sources
Born in slavery [electronic resource] / : slave narratives from the
Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 /
Location: available via Internet
Call Number: Electronic
Resource
The AFRICAN-AMERICAN
MOSAIC
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History &
Culture
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Africans in America,
PBS Series
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
Background Information
Print Sources
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996
E 185 .E54 1996 Vols. 1-5
Location: Bird,1st Floor Reference
Black Biography, 1790-1950 : a Cumulative Index 3 vols.
Alexandria : Chadwyck-Healey, 1991.
E185.96 .B52 1991
Location: Bird-Reference, 1st Floor
Multimedia Sources
African-American culture and history [computer file]
Computer file CD 345
The trans-Atlantic slave trade [computer file] : a database on
CD-ROM.
Computer file CD 384
This menu
lists all of S.U. Library's web-accessible databases, for use by SU students,
faculty, and staff. Databases are organized alphabetically by title, by
subject, or by vendor. Use these databases to find all kinds of articles,
books, factual information, primary source materials, statistics, and
more.
Material
pertaining to African American History may be found under subject
categories such as, e.g. General & Interdisciplinary, Arts & Humanities,
and Social Sciences.
A few
suggested databases:
African American Biographical Database (Social Sciences - African American Studies)
African American Newspapers, 19th Century (Social Sciences - African American Studies)
America History & Life (Arts & Humanities - History)
Biographies Plus Illustrated (Arts & Humanities - History)
Black Thought and Culture (Social Sciences - African American Studies)
Empire Online (Arts & Humanities - History)
Nineteenth Century Masterfile (Arts & Humanities - History)
International Index to Black Periodicals (Social Sciences - African American Studies)
Citing
Web Material (Style Guides)
This page links to various style manuals available online: A.P.A.
(American Psychological Association), M.L.A. (Modern Language Association),
Turabian, and general guides.
