Liberal Arts Blog

Two new Web pages were created for History this spring: Sport and American Society and Gender and Sexuality in the North American Borderlands, 1492-1850. Find recommended reference resources, suggestions of terms to search in library databases (including the library catalog), and find links to relevant material found on the free Web. Don't forget to check out some of the ongoing History Web pages! United States of America (History) and Environmental History are two. See the History page for a list of all of the topical pages.

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There is a new Web page for History at the Libraries: Antarctica. Find recommended reference books, terms to search in the library catalog, journals, and Web pages. Web pages are arranged by: Bibliographies, Timelines, General, Antarctica Treaties & More, Maps, and Photographs. Even if you aren't doing research on Antarctica, you'll probably enjoy looking at the stunningly beautiful photographs!

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The Gilded Age ran from roughly 1865-1902, the latter part of the Victorian era. A new-to-CSU database The Gilded Age covers topics that include "[i]mmigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment." The collection contains "40,000 pages of full text, photographs, songs for listening online, and other primary materials, along with video interviews and twenty-five critical documentary essays. Each documentary essay poses an interpretive question and then illuminates it with dozens of annotated primary documents, introductions, and essays." Items in this database range from primary sources that were created in 1865 to contemporary (as in 2007) scholarship. The time period is the era just before World War I, so the resources in this new collection will be worth studying for possible hints of things to come. (See Web page on World War I http://lib.colostate.edu/research/history/wwi.html for resources on or about the War itself.) The Gilded Age database can be found under "G" on the "Research Databases" CSU Library Web page. Remote access is limited to CSU affiliates.

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The Iter Bibliography is useful for scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). It contains "more than 1,000,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews. This material has been collected from 8,707 publications, including 1,707 journals." Right now the "check for full text" is your FindIt@CSU button.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online "provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1962 and 2008." There are currently "more than 114,231 records in this version." Use advanced search to look for words in title, etc.

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Brought to you by the generosity of the Irene Bostrom Endowment in the College of Liberal Arts, Evans contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. It contains more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages. These are primary source advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

The online collection may be searched by subject and browsed by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place of publication and language. Topics covered include agriculture, astronomy, child rearing, commerce, constitution, education, foreign affairs, medicine, military operations, operas, religious thought, revolutionary war, slavery, suffrage, work, and much more.

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The largest dictionary of the English language is now available 24/7 to CSU affiliates. Look up the meaning of words, find their etymologies (history of the word), search for words by keywords in their definitions, search for words that beginning with a particular suffix, and much more. From their about page:
"The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books."
Take a look! If you cannot think of a word to look up OED will select one (get an entry) for you.

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A brand new blog at the library has been created. It is under construction right now, so please do not expect a lot of news for the time being. Once it is ready for prime time it will be promoted.

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