DCE History Day Research @ UWSP

Making a connection to the UWSP Library

Hi - my name is Terri Muraski and I'm a librarian at UWSP.  I've teamed up with your teachers to establish a connection to the UWSP library to help you with research on your National History Day topics, focusing on this years theme Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange in History. 

The first step is to get you acquainted with a few of our search tools, most importantly, our catalog.  The catalog is our gateway to nearly everything in our building, and many online resources especially from the US government. 

I've put together a NHD research guide for you that should help you get started.  There's a link to our catalog on the page - but before you start searching, it might help to go through the powerpoint presentation that I've provided on the guide and in the next post.  If you want to just dive in, you can always come back to the presentation if you have trouble.  In addition, the guide includes links to many other NHD resources and to many important history websites.

Contacting me via the blog

If you having trouble with your searching, or if your topic is one that your teachers believe will probably be a little hard to find, feel free to contact me for help.  We have a large reference collection that can be great for information on many topics.  We also have many history databases that are not available on Badgerlink.  I can do some searching and send you information that I find. 

Just be sure to provide your email and a detailed description of your topic.  You can just respond to this post or email me directly at tmuraski@uwsp.edu

Badgerlink!

Don't forget about Badgerlink!  You can find it on the DCE IMC page and on my NHD Research Guide.

The address is easy to remember http://www.badgerlink.net/

Be sure to check out the History Reference Center. It includes:

Content includes:

• Nearly 57,000 historical documents
• More than 79,000 biographies of historical figures
• More than 1,990 full-text reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books
• More than 37,000 historical photos & maps
• More than 80 hours of historical video

A few highlights

Three highlights of our resources that are often great for NHD projects:

• New York Times - we have access to the paper back to 1858.  Remember that the newspaper articles covering an event at the time of the event are primary resources!
• US Documents - this might be especially important for this year's theme, since our large collection of US publications will contain many documents that demonstrate the result of diplomatic negotiations.  Find these in the library catalog.
• Archives and Area Research Center program - Wisconsin has a unique research program that permits lending archival material (even from the Wisconsin Historical Society) between libraries.  So, if you find materials in Madison or at one of the other archives around the state, contact our archivist and ask her about having them shipped to our library at UWSP. 

History Websites

Be sure to check out the History websites on the Library Guide.  My personal favorite is American Memory from the Library of Congress.

Just click on the Websites tab at the top of the UWSP History Day Library Guide

Black Power/Nonviolence & CIvil Rights (Anklam & Solomon)

A few websites that might be of interest:

http://crdl.usg.edu/?Welcome&Welcome  Civil RIghts digital library

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/ (check out the interviews)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/resources/index.html (image gallery, newspaper sources)

Black Power/Nonviolence & CIvil Rights (Anklam & Solomon)

Holly and Lauren,
I am so sorry that I didn't get back to you sooner.  Somehow the resources that I printed for you got mixed up with other papers on my desk.  I have a few articles that I will send to school tomorrow as well as a list of books.

There is a special issue of the OAH Magazine of History (July, 2008) on this topic.  Try this link
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&bquery=(JN+%22OAH+Magazine+of+History%22+AND+DT+20080701)&type=1&site=ehost-live

If that doesn't work:   Go to Badgerlink.  Select the database Academic Search Premier, Click on the PUblications tab at the top of the page.  IN the search box type in OAH, then select the OAH Magazine of History.  Select 2008, then July, 2008.

I've printed a few of the articles from this issue, so wait and see what I send. But, there are some nice pictures that you might be able to use in your documentary.
Let me know if you need anything else - there's lots of info on this topic.

Women's liberation (Worzalla)

I will send a list of general books to DCE.  Here is a website to check out - I will look for more tomorrow and add to this post
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

UW Oshkosh student strike (Scott)

Alyssa,
I assume you have this website - but wanted to make sure.

http://www.blackthursday.uwosh.edu/blackthurs.html

I will send some articles from the New York Times to DCE. I will also look for some article from WIsconsin newspapers if you do not have any.

School desegregation and Little Rock 9 (Spoehr)

Hi Kira,

I am so sorry that my first list of links did not work.  I've corrected the ones that only sent you to my email and added some more.  There are many court cases that are referenced on these sites and in the articles.  You can find the primary documents on the court cases by visiting http://www.oyez.org/- that provides all the Supreme Court decisions.

http://crdl.usg.edu/events/little_rock_integration/?Welcome&Welcome

http://aam.govst.edu/projects/mwysocki/primary_sources.htm

http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/civil_rights.html - Oral history recordings on civil rights including many on desegregation

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/digital_documents/LittleRock/littlerockdocuments.html - Eisenhower archives

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sepbutequal.htm

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/ - Brown at 50 from the LIbrary of Congress

http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-25-spring-2004/brown-v-board-american-legacy

I will also send a couple of articles to DCE tomorrow. 

Red Scare (Schuessler and Prell)

Here are a few websites that you might take a look at.  The one from the Wis historical society has many links and pictures on Mccarthy.  Is there anything specific you’re focusing on?  I’ll check at the library for other materials we have in print when I return there on Tuesday.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75524 Truman’s executive order 9835

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/typewr.html (Alger Hiss case, typewriter, link to pumpkin papers)

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/mccarthy/timeline.asp McCarthy info from Wis Historical Society

http://www.myhistorymuseum.org/mccarthy/

Censorship and music/media (Ravindra/Bryan)

I have a list of afew books and copies of articles that I will send to DCE tomorrow.  It would help me to know a little more - are you looking at any specific time period?  any specific type of music (rock/rap) ?  lyrics?  ratings?  violence?
If you haven't narrowed it down, read through some of the articles and let me know if you'd like more info on any subtopics. 

Feminist movement (Tice and Hagenbucher)

I will send a list of books that you might pick up here at the library.  We also have a documentary entitled "I was a teenage feminist a documentary about redefiningt he F word" that I included in the list.

In addition, here a few websites with primary resources
http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/steinem-living-the-revolution-speech-text/ (Steinem speech)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/aims/ (steinem speech)
http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/primarysource/viewdetails.aspx?PrimarySourceId=1159
http://www.nhd.org/website/17024/annotated_bibliography.html

Women's fashion in the 1920's (Rodriguez & Thao)

I'll send a few articles to DCE.  If you want pictures you might try the picture collection at the New York Public Library.  http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/index.cfm.

I also found a website that had pictures and articles from the 20's at
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/women-fashion-articles-1920.php
These would all be primary sources.

I'll keep looking, but hopefully these resources will get you started.

Atomic Bomb in WWII

I have multiple requests for this topic and found some websites that have amazing amounts of information.
Take a look at:

National Security Archive site with links to primary documents: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm

  

Info from the Truman Library:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/index.php

Yale's Avalon Document Collection:

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mpmenu.asp

Manhatten Project Interactive History from the US Dept of Energy:

http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/

Nuclear Files Documents

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/index.htm

I will also pass a list of books on to Mr. Aleckson.  We do have a large collection of resources on this topic - both in the regular collection and in government documents.

Civil War Draft Riot in Port Washington

I did some searching and found some articles in journals from our collection.  I'll send copies to DCE.  I didn't find much in our book collection.  Actually, I found a lot of information on the Wisconsin Historical Society website.  There is an article in the online Wisconsin Magazine of History, March 1919, p. 334 that you might want to look at.