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HIST 495: Madison and Hamilton

Scholarly Articles

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Includes a large collection of scholarly journals by historians. You can also try limiting by "Historical Period." For world history, try Historical Abstracts. Also includes book reviews.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 450 journals in history. You can narrow by date and you can also scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history. After searching, you can limit by subject, year, and more.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles in many disciplines. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles. You can limit by Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals.

Library Search
Search across many library databases to find scholarly articles, magazines, books and more. After searching, try the limits at the left hand side. This is also a good place to look for items found in a bibliography.
Google Scholar
Full text searching of articles and books. If you find a journal article of interest, try the "cited by" link.
E-Journal Finder (New)
If you want to search a specific journal (or periodical or newspaper), such as American Historical Review, search for the journal title in Ejournal Finder to find the full text.

Books

The Helmke Library Catalog is the first place to look for books. You can use Purdue Borrow to access collections at other Pufdue campuses using the catalog as well. If you do not find what you need via our catalog, try FristSearch for a more expansive worldwide collection of books that you can order via Document Delivery.

Helmke Library Catalog
Find books, e-books and more available at Helmke Library.
Purdue Borrow
Instructions on using Helmke Library Catalog to request books from Purdue West Lafayette and Purdue Northwest.

FirstSearch: WorldCat Advanced Search (See also WorldCat Advanced Search: FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
Access WorldCat with the FirstSearch interface. Use the FindIt link to request books and other materials from over 7,000 libraries.
Proquest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Search and view the full text of ebooks.

Primary Sources: Library & Web Sources

Founders Online
An extensive digitized collection of the correspondence and writings of Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison. From the National Archives.
Helmke Library Catalog
Here are a few examples of the types of primary texts you might find in Helmke Library Catalog (for additional options, see: Books)

The Federalist papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
FYI, see also the versions from: Congress.gov and HathiTrust.
Thomas Jefferson [author]

Primary Documents in American History
Selected documents with brief descriptions and links to web versions. From the Library of Congress.
American History as Seen in Congressional Documents, 1774-1873
Identifies major sources of official Congressional documents, from the Library of Congress' Century of Lawmaking Collection.
HathiTrust
A large-scale online archive with digitized books, journals, documents and more. Especially useful for finding materials in the public domain. For example:

Burr-Hamilton duel : with correspondence preceding same, etc. : compiled from files of the New York Herald of ...

Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Fulltext searching of digitized books published in Great Britain and North America in the eighteenth century, from Gale.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
A collection of U.S. newspapers from the 19th century. From Gale. For example:

On the Subject of the Distressing Event of General Hamilton's Death

Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Digitized collection of 19th century books, manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals. From Gale.
C19, The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
This resource is a comprehensive source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. C19 Index provides integrated access to 13 bibliographic indexes.
American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Includes selected magazines and journals from the late 1700s and onward, such as Niles' Weekly Register (1814-1837) and Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine (1790-1792).
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Includes selected magazines and journals from the late 1700s and onward, such as The Gentleman's Magazine ... and Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal.
NewsVault This link opens in a new window
An extensive collection of historical British newspapers and periodicals, with some U.S. content. You can search the whole database or scroll down to choose a specific collection.
Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new window
Access to over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records covering colonial history from 1574 to 1757, including the American colonies, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Covers early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.

Citation Guides

Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
Consult the options at the left hand side of the screen for info. on creating a bibliography. From the OWL Purdue Writing Lab.
Chicago/Turabian Documentation Style
From the University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center
Turabian Footnote/Endnote Style
From the Georgetown University Library

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla A Pocket Guide to Writing in History is a brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-use guide to the writing and research skills needed for undergraduate history courses. Its concise yet comprehensive coverage of every step of the research and writing process—including detailed advice on documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism—have made A Pocket Guide to Writing in History the trusted choice in history.
ISBN: 9781457690884
Publication Date: 2015-01-16