Contemporary Issues in American Politics - PS 3530 (Barbara Ferman section)

Sources for assignments and papers

Popular culture

Videos at Temple Libraries
Documentaries often incorporate popular culture of the time to dress up a topic. Try searching the event to see what Temple has - often streaming if not on dvd. Look at the credits for the sources.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides search for scholarly literature. It covers disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles,. Try this in addition to searching Google. Cartoons are the most common media analyzed by scholars for 19th century events.

Google Images
Search event name along with words like song or play or movie or cartoon. Add the word "archive" to narrow to more likely credible sources.

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
America: History & Life with Full Text contains bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada It includes historical, social sciences and humanities journals. Search the term "culture AND" with the name of the event.- for example: culture AND haymarket
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete provides full text scholarly publications and full text journals for academic areas of study.