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HIST 396A: Life Stories And The Practices Of Biography
Primary Source Materials
Primary sources consist of materials created by the participants at the time of the event. They may include personal narratives, diaries, correspondence, and other documents. They often do exist in translation.
The Library has many primary source materials, in translation You may want to consult the catalogs of other libraries by searching WorldCat, to find materials in other libraries. These could then be requested on interlibrary loan, if you allow enough lead time to get them.
- - On the keyword search page, type your major search topic into the top line.
- - On the second line, change "Any Field" to "Subject."
- Type any of the following into the Search Box: Sources, Interviews, Personal Narratives, statistics, diaries, correspondence, biography, Archives. Please note, “biography” includes both autobiographies and secondary works. - You can search more than one of these by putting "or" between words, e.g. sources or personal narratives or interviews
- Autobiographical information can be found by changing “Any Field” to “Author” and typing in the name of the person.
Other Library Catalogs and Archives
Center for Research Libraries Catalog
CRL is good for locating archives, manuscripts, andother materials not in the UA library. All CRL materials can be borrowed for 6 months.
Repositories of Primary Source
A listing of websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar with worldwide coverage.
Arizona Historical Society Library
Source for material about Arizona people
A web searchable database of many of the finding aids to the special collections at ASU, NAU, and the UA. From ASU this includes their Chicano Research Collection, Labriola National American Indian Data Center, Arizona collection among others.
Primary Sources
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe.
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
Documenting the American South
Includes first person narratives of the south, North American slave narratives and a library of the American South.
General Biographies
American National Biography online
The American National Biography offers full text portraits of more than 17,500 [deceased] men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the nation. Includes about 7000 biographies not found in the earlier Dictionary of American Biography [which was also published under auspices of the ACLS]. Searchable by name, gender, occupation, birth date, birthplace, death date, contributor's name and/or words/phrases in the full text. Approximately 125 new biographies added each quarter. (Available only to UA Campus.)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography provides signed biographies of 50,000 men and women who have shaped all aspects of British history from the earliest times up to the present. It is searchable by name, full text, references, contributors, images, and may also be browsed alphabetically by name, or by themes. For British authors.
The Biography in Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than a half million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. (Available only to UA Campus.)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
An index to hundreds of sources with biographical information on people worldwide and from all time periods. You will need to consult the SABIO catalog to find the call number for each information source. (Available only to UA Campus.)
Indexes To Secondary Literature
Some of these indexes do not include full text. Check in the catalog to find the call number of the book or journal. Digitized copies of articles will be provided by document delivery.
History of the United States and Canada, all time periods.
World history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present
Greco-Roman antiquity, 1969-to present. May be useful for topics from antiquity, such as mercenaries).
Humanities International Complete
A database index of the humanities literature, with abstracts and some full-text of articles in archaeology, art, classical studies, folklore, history, journalism, language and literature, linguistics, performing arts, political criticism, philosophy, and religion. The coverage includes 1,900 journal titles, some as far back as 1925 to-present.
IBZ-Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
Index to articles in world history as covered in European publications. On the Web from 1984 on.
Fully searchable and full image of complete runs of the major periodicals in history, economics, sociology, Asian, African and Latin American studies. Will not include the most recent few years of a journal, but in a few cases links to Project Muse.
Fully searchable and full image of more current issues of major scholarly journals. In some cases links to older issues in JSTOR.
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
(586 - present)
An online bibliography which provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation exist.
19th Century Masterfile (Poole's Plus)
Index to American and British publications (1802-1906), the New York Times (1863-1905), New York Daily Tribune (1875-1906), and government publications (1774-1881).
Periodicals Archive Online contains over 400 journals, published between 1802 and the 1990s, representing over 1.2 million articles. Periodicals Archive Online continues to add new titles, to give undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and libraries access to a growing collection of the most historically respected journals in the humanities and social sciences
Specialized Indexes
Broad coverage of over 300 arts journals. Includes coverage of museum bulletins, yearbooks, exhibition listings, competitions and awards. Coverage is from 1984 to date. The print equivalent is 1929 to date. (Main Reference NX 20.A77)
Click on it in SABIO's periodicals indexes list! Begun in 1969, this extensive index includes citations and abstracts of articles appearing in international art, photography, design, and architecture journals. It indexes various museum catalogs as well.
Bibliography of the History of Art (includes RILA & RAA)
Indexing approximately 2500 American and European art journals, this data base also surveys conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition catalogs and much more. Coverage is from 1973 to the present. The BHA was formed by the merger in 1991 of RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archaeologie). BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessors.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
Index to literature of all traditions, with special strength in Judaism and Christianity. Coverage: 1949 to present. Includes some full text. This is also a source for information about related people.
Ethnic Newswatch and ENW: A History
Full text coverage from ethnic & minority newspapers and magazines. Citations now cover journal articles as well and go back to 1960. Full text is available after 1989.
International Medieval Bibliography
Guide
European and North African Middle Ages. Includes indexed bibliographic information about journal articles, books, conference publications, and chapters in books published since 1984.
Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Index to articles, books, and book chapters published since 1990.
Good for information about Arizona.
Full Text Historic Newspapers
Historical Atlanta Constitution
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of the Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1942.
Full text and full image of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902.
The full text backfile of the influential black newspaper. The Chadwyck version combines several resources for research in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of the Chicago Tribune, 1849-1986.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
Guide
A digitized collection: early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690 - 1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758 - 1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829 - 1922). .
Ethnic Newswatch and ENW: A History
Full text. American ethnic and minority groups newspapers, most beginning in early 1990s with a few going back to the 1980s.
Historical New York Times (ProQuest)
Guide
Full Text images of almost all pages of the New York Times, 1851-3 years ago.
Full text, and full image of the LA Times, 1881-1986.
Full text of all of the entire Times. Covers 1785-1984. One can view the entire page or specific article. The contents of this newspaper are completely searchable.
Mostly full text · News, business, law, health, biography · Newspapers and news magazines. May find some information on contemporary people.
Arizona Newspapers... Not Full Text
Arizona Newspapers in the UA Library
A list by city of Arziona Newspapers available in either paper or microfilm.
Full text, but not full image of the Arizona Daily Star, 1991- present. Index to earlier years, 1953-1989 at AI 21 A72 Information Commons. All years of the Arizona Daily Star (1879-present) are available on Microfilm at UA.
Full text, but not full image of the Arizona Republic, 1999-present. All years of the Arizona Republic (1890-present) are available on microfilm at UA.
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