HIS 538:Fin-de-siecle Europe – Library

Research (10/17/07)Chella Vaidyanathan

History, Political Science, U.S. Govt. &International Docs Librarian

University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL

Subject Term SearchesExamples of subject term searches for your course related topics are:

England – Popular Culture – History – 19th CenturySex Role – England – History – 19th CenturyNationalism and Art – Europe – History – 19th CenturyFrance – Social Life and Customs – 19th CenturyAustria – Politics and Government 1867-1918Vienna (Austria) – Intellectual LifeProstitution – France – History – 19th Century

DatabasesDatabases can be searched by using keywords that pertain to your topic of research. They can also be searched using “subject” termsSome of the databases that you should use for your research are:

The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) Historical Abstracts (1450-present)JSTORProject MuseARTstorGrove Dictionary of Art Online

Digital Resources/Collections

Some collections would be of use are:Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham University) – http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.htmlVictorian Women Writers Project – http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_PageFashion Plate Collection (Univ. of Washington) http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html

Digital Resources/Collections (continued)

Foreign Relations of the United States (University of Wisconsin Digital Collections) – http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/Volumes 1861-1958/1960 – http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/Browse.htmlVolumes To begin search, click on http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=browse&scope=FRUS.FRUS1 Then, scroll down and choose the volume that you would like to search.German History in Documents and Images – http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/home.cfm

Digital Resources/Collections (continued) The European Library –

http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.htmlA digital library of 18th and 19th Century Journals – http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/Paris: Capital of the 19th Century – http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris/A Treasury of World’s Fair Art & Architecture: A Digital Archive (1856-1986) – http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/worldsfairs/The Word on the Street: Ordinary Scots in Bygone Days – http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html