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Finding Books and videos.
Use XPLORE, the library's online catalog, to find books and videos available
at Xavier (see link in left menu).
Here are some subject searches on XPLORE:
United States -- History -- 1865-1921
United States -- History -- 1901-1953
United States -- History -- 1913-1921
United States -- History -- 1919-1933
United States -- History -- 1933-1945
United States -- History -- 1945-
United States -- History -- 1945-1953
United States -- History -- 1953-1961
United States -- History -- 1961-1969
United States -- History -- 1969-
United States -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
Cold War
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
War and society -- Great Britain
Popular culture -- United States
Cold War in literature
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
OhioLINK is a combined online catalog for all public and many private colleges
and universities in Ohio (see link in left menu). (You can request books
directly using your XU All-Card.) It takes 3-5 days to get a book through
this service. For instructions for ordering OhioLINK books see this page.
Selected databases. Use to find articles on a topic.
There are many databases which are useful for your topic.
Academic
Search Premier
Academic Search premier is a general database which
is useful for finding information on popular culture
in the 20th century for both the United States and Great
Britain.
UNITED States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
GREAT Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century
CULTURE -- History
UNITED States -- Social life & customs -- 20th century
POPULAR culture -- History -- 20th century
America:
History and Life
America: History and Life database contains information
on the history of the United States. Some useful subject
search terms are:
WORLD-WAR-I.
WORLD-WAR-II
COLD-WAR
(NATIONAL-SELF-IMAGE.SU.) AND (1900H.TM.)
MASS-MEDIA
POPULAR-CULTURE.SU.) AND (1900H.TM.)
You can select the time period of the 20th century.
American
Periodical Series
In American Periodicals Series the full text articles
in this database go up to 1940. When you do a search
select the time period of 01/01/1900 to 12/31/1940.
You can choose all publication types or you can select
specific kinds of journals such as scholarly journals.
Annals
of American History
Annals of American History is a full-text database
which you can search by timeline or by keyword. There
are documents and images and multimedia clips.
Book
Review Digest
You can search for book reviews under different topics
in this database.
Electronic
Journal Center
The Electronic Journal Center is a database of full-text
journals. Your results are returned to you in relevancy
order.
Historical
Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is the best database to go to
for information on Great Britain. This database covers
history in countries other than the United States. Below
are some suggested subject searches.
GREAT-BRITAIN
SOCIAL-CONDITIONS
WORLD-WAR-I
CULTURE
WORLD-WAR-II
History
Resource Center
The History Resource Center covers mainly United
States History. Listed below are sample subject searches
in this database. The search brings you to reference
material, journal articles, primary documents and maps
and images.
United States History, 1901-1921
United States (World war i)
Great Britain (World war i)
United States History, 1921-1945
United States History, 1945-
United States (World war II)
Cold War
JSTOR
When searching JSTOR, select history journals
before you enter your search term. Results are given
in relevancy order. There are many full text articles
in JSTOR so it is important to try and be as specific
as possible. When you find a result that you like, click
on either the print or download tab to get the full
article.
New
York Times Historical Database
There is a huge amount of information in the New
York Times Historical Database. It is important therefore
to put in dates when you search for a topic, otherwise
you will just get far too many articles.
Articles not available at the Xavier Library can be ordered through
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Loan. Fill out an article request form for each
article that you want, filling in all the information.
Online request
forms are available from the Library's home page
or print forms are available at the Reference Desk. Remember
it can take 1-2 weeks to get an article through this
service.
Library Liaison
Anne Davies, 513 745-4803 Davies@xavier.edu
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