World War II (His 445)

• Background Information and Bibliographies

• Finding Books

• Finding Articles

• Finding Primary Sources

• Internet Resources

• Evaluating Internet Resources

• Citing Sources

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• Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries.

• Sample Library of Congress Subject Headings: 

 
Great Britain--History
Italy--History
Women--History
World War, 1939-1945 
Germany--History



• Ordering books from other libraries ~ Illinet Online allows you to request books held by 45 academic libraries in Illinois. 

• Humanities Abstracts

• JSTOR  is an online library currently containing more than 100 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals but is an electronic archive of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. All full text.

• Project Muse is an online library of 45 journals from Johns Hopkins University Press, with the full text of articles from 1996 to the present. Journals in this collection cover primarily the humanities and the social sciences.

• Social Sciences Abstracts

How do I find out if the Elmhurst College Library has the journal I need?

 
• Search for the journal title in Illinet Online.
• For example, search for the title Journal of African History.
• If you don't find the journal you need, take a look at the list,Full Text Periodicals Available Online. You can also call or email the reference department to inquire about a specific title or ask a question.

 

Finding Primary Sources

Books

• Use Illinet Online to find primary sources held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries.

• The best way to find primary sources is to do a keyword search using terms that describe your topic plus one of the following words:

 
sources
diaries 
correspondence
speeches

• Sample Keyword Searches


• england history sources
• nazi germany sources
• world war correspondence
• hitler speeches
• europe history sources
• russia history sources

Also look at More Internet Resources.

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• American and British History Resources on the Internet (Rutgers)
• Academic Info: Modern European History
• Genocide and Holocaust Resources at Elmhurst College
• Hatewatch ~ Monitors hate on the Internet.
• History Guide at the State and University Library at Goettingen, Germany 
• H-Net ~ Humanities and Social Sciences Online, "H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web."
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook ~ World War II
• Library of Congress ~ American Memory primary sources
• Military History ~ World War Two from About.com
• WWW-VL History (University of Kansas)

• "The Historian, the Internet, and the Web: A Reassessment" (February 1998) by Andrew McMichael, writing in Perspectives Online, a publication of the American Historical Association.

• How to Evaluate the Sources You Find

• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools

• Dissing the King

• Citing Sources

• A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities 

• Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th edition. 1996.
A.C. Buehler Library, Reference R808.042 T929 m6 1997.
• Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 4th edition.

1995.
A.C. Buehler Library, Reference R808.042 M685 1995.