Historical Research for ENG400: Reading the Cold War

Finding Books

For books at OU: use Voyager.

For books at other libraries: use WorldCat.

When you find and retrieve a book that suits your research needs, be sure to browse the titles of other books found near your book, as these may also be helpful.

Journal Article Databases

America: History and Life

A bibliography of articles, book reviews, and dissertations dealing with the history of the United States and Canada.

Historical Abstracts

Bibliography of historical literature of the world, except for the US and Canada.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Multidisciplinary database covering all of the humanities; especially good for cross-disciplinary work. Also allows to search cited works, e.g. all authors who have referred to Nevil Shute.

A database of hundreds of full-image journals in a variety of subject areas, including history and anthropology. Coverage of most journals extends back to the journal's first issue (sometimes in the 1800s) up to, but not including the last few years.

Project Muse

A database of over 100 full-text journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage extends back to the last few years.

Contact Information

Frank Lepkowski
238 Kresge Library
email: lepkowsk@oakland.edu
IM: AOL: frankjlepkowski
phone: (248) 370-2497

Primary Source Resources

New York Times Historical Collection (1851-2003)

Full-image, fully searchable, America's newspaper of record from its beginnings.

Other print and microfilm materials rich in primary source information include:

Times ( London) Index (1914-present) Ref. AI 21 .T46
Times of London (1906-present) Microfilm AN 3 .L6 T5 (recent issues in Current Journals Room)
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-1998) Ref. AI 3 .R4
Washington Post (1971-2004) Microfilm AN2 .W38
Washington Post Index (1971-1998) Ref. AI21 .W33 W361
Wall Street Journal (1950-2003) Microfilm HG 1 .W261
Detroit News Index (1976-2004) Ref. AI21.D4 D45
Detroit News (1890-current) Microfilm AN 2 .D47 D49

Print Reference Books

American Eras (8 vols.) Ref. E 169.1 .A471979 1997

Encyclopedia Americana Ref. AE 5 .E333 1999

Reader’s Companion to American History Ref. E 174.R43 1991

Dictionary of American History Ref. E 174 .D52 2003

Dictionary of American Biography Ref. E 176 .D56

American National Biography Ref. E 176 .A68 1999

Harvard Guide to American History Ref. E 175 .A1 H27

American Years: A Chronology of United Ref. E 174.5 .G753 1999

Annals of America Ref. E 173 .A793 (which contains hundreds of primary source documents)

Citation and Writing Guides

Quick Reference MLA Citation Guide

Citation help for commonly cited sources such as books, journal articles, and newspapers.

Kresge Library Links to Writing Resources

Find in-depth information about the mechanics of writing and grammar, writing MLA format, citations, avoiding plagiarism & more.