LibGuides: HIST0253 Religion, Politics, and Culture in America, 1865 to Present: Secondary Works

Abstracts and Indexes

America: History and Life
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1954-present; article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
1949-present; the ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Links are provided to 100,000 full text articles in ATLASerials, from more than fifty journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text resources from the Religion and Philosophy Collection are also linked within this database.

Electronic Monographs

Under public health restrictions imposed to control COVID19, libraries are difficult access and you may have trouble finding books . Below are some resources that may be especially helpful for identifying digital copy of books you are seeking for assignments pertaining to this class. Please know that while access to the stacks is restricted, physical books owned by the Brown University Library that would normally circulate can still be ordered using the "Request Item" link in the BruKnow record and, once requested, will be made available for curbside pickup at the Rockefeller Library. Please contact the Library staff for help in finding books.

HathiTrust
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In response to the COVID19 pandemic, HathiTrust is making available to Brown users, under an Emergency Temporary Access license, electronic copy of print books Brown holds that would otherwise be unavailable in HathiTrust due to copyright restrictions. To access titles that HathiTrust is providing under the ETA, you must first click the yellow LOGIN button and select Brown University from the drop down menu. You will then be asked to login through Brown's Shibboleth template.

Internet Archive
"A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more." The Internet Archives has many books, old and new, that are not otherwise available anywhere in electronic format. Books under copyright circulate via controlled digital lending when you sign up for a free account.
ACLS Humanities E-book Project
A collection of full text scholarly works in history, archaeology, area studies and related fields, published between 1880 and the present. Some titles are available in XML and some can be Print-On-Demand for a fee.

EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription Collection
EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription Collection is a growing ebook subscription package containing a large selection of multidisciplinary ebook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. It contains more than 113,000 titles; all titles are available with unlimited user access. Subject coverage includes art, business & economics, education, language arts & discipline, literary criticism, medicine, performing arts, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, social science, and technology & engineering.
ProQuest Ebook Central
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Ebook Central is an ebook platform that integrates the strengths of ebrary and EBL, plus adds new functionality. At the core of Ebook Central is an exhaustive selection of authoritative, scholarly content 790,000 titles and 1,350 imprints from more than 650 publishers on one platform. An average of 100,000 newly published titles will be added each year.

E-journals

JSTOR
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Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

If you are experiencing printing problems from JSTOR while using a Macintosh computer, please download the most recent version of Adobe Reader. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
If you need assistance, please contact the CIS Help Desk or eresources@brown.edu.
Project Muse
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Project Muse is a searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. As of 6/2004, includes links to JSTOR.
Academic Search Premier
Current; multidisciplinary full text database, designed for the academic community. Includes full text coverage for just under 4,700 journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

Statistics

Historical Statistics of the United States
A compendium of historical data on the United States, largely drawn from the U. S. Census. Allows the user to download, create and graph tables.

Instructor Contact Information

Linford Fisher

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

OFFICE: Sharpe House 312
HOURS: Monday & Wednesday, 1 to 3 p.m. (sign up; meetings via Zoom)

Phone: 401- 863-6208 (office)

Email: Linford_Fisher@Brown.edu