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LITERATURE REVIEWS & REFERENCE RESOURCES

Reference sources are an indispensable resource not only for quick information on a topic but also, and perhaps more importantly, for literature reviews (building a good bibliography of works pertaining to a topic). This will help you position your argument in appropriate secondary literature. I have listed a number of topic specific reference sources in the sidebar on the left. But you will also want to be familiar with the general Blackwell Reference Online database. Quite simply, it's that good.

Blackwell Reference Online: An excellent source for high-quality historiographical essays. Contains fully searchable versions of A Companion to Film Theory, A Companion to Literature and Film, A Companion to Media Studies, A Companion to 20^th-Century America. You can browse by title, or search by keywords to find relevant articles (ie. “race and cinema”)

Additionally, here are two sources for literature reviews of scholarly journal literature:

JSTOR – A full-text database of over three hundred major journals across multiple disciplines, including film studies and history Pros: JSTOR is easy to use and supplies full-text access to journal literature, including articles and book reviews. Cons: JSTOR is generally five years out-of-date.

[Tip: JSTOR is great for book reviews. Find the title of a book you're interested in, go into the advanced search field of JSTOR and do a title search for the book, limiting results to book reviews. This can be a great way to navigate through a large amount of secondary literature with purpose.]

America: History & Life – The combined America: History and Life & Historical Abstracts database is a powerful index to the scholarly literature for both U.S. and world history. Pros: Far more comprehensive than JSTOR (current, included books and dissertations in addition to journals). Cons: Is only an index, and you have to follow “Yale Links” to find the materials, which Yale may or may not have. Note: put “film” in the subject line to limit searches to this subject.

Heinonline - Federal Register Collection (full text, 1936-1993); Congressional Record (full text, 1873-2003); Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties (Kappler), 1902-1971; U.S. Supreme Court Library: U.S. Reports, 1754-2002; U.S. Reports preliminary prints, 2002-2003; U.S. Reports slip opinions, 2002-current; Supreme Court Economic Review, volumes 1-5 (1982-1997); Supreme Court Review, volumes 1960-1998; U.S. Attorney General Opinions.

Historical Statistics of the United States - Reliable data on the economy, population, crime, immigration and other important issues. 

Lexis Nexis Congressional - Indexing and abstracts for congressional hearings (published and unpublished), prints, bills, reports and documents, and Serial Set. Full text of congressional bills and resolutions, reports, prints, hearings and documents; and Congressional Research Service reports (dates of coverage vary). Includes legislative histories for enacted laws, and biographical and voting information for members of Congress. Full text of Federal Register (1980-), the Congressional Record (1985-) and the National Journal (1977-).

Bibliography of Native North Americans

A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment

This database, assembled from hundreds of primary sources, documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. It includes works by American Indians as well as a wide range of Europeans.

Ethnic NewsWatch: A History

This interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses from 1960–1989.

Footnote.com

A collection of digitized collections from the National Archives.  Contains a number of Indian Treaties.