HIST 530  Tags: history  

HIST 530 - American Democracy Seminar

Suggested search terms for finding primary resources in the library catalog

Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Diaries
• Correspondence
• Description and Travel
• Personal Narratives
• Sources

Terms that are not LC Subject Headings but may appear in a title

• Memoirs
• Journal

Online indexes and databases that may be useful

• America: History and Life - index to history journal. A lot of full text

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Searchable database of Federal and State Laws and Court Cases. Full text of hundreds of laws reviews. Also contains full-text database of U.S. and foreign newspapers and wire services.

• Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe - Index and full text database on publications of the U.S. Congress (Committee Reports, Hearings, etc.) Indexing goes back to 1970, full-text to about 1988. If your topic is prior to that, use the Congressional Serial Set database.

• U.S. Congressional Serial Set - indexing and full text to the U.S. Congressional Serial, 1790 to 1970. Includes committee reports on legislation, reports to congress by executive branch departments, agencies, commissions, bureaus, etc. Also contains a lot of extraneous material.