IS 182, Spring 2002 Mary Kay Duggan

Assignment Today:

Find at least one article for your term paper. Suggestions:

1. Go to the UCB Library web site and click on "Electronic Indexes & Abstracts"

www.lib.berkeley.edu Click on the letter you desire. "A" for

America: History and Life

*Abstracts. Covers 2000 journals, 1964-

*Subject access. For example, Chinese Americans, Elementary Education

Also Keyword access. Chronological period.

Web of Science.

Includes SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) and A&HCI (Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 5300 journals, since 1975. No abstracts, no subject access, only title word.

California History

Browse the subject list. Chinese; Blacks, Negroes, African Americans

2. Go to the UCB Library web site and find one book for your term paper. Click on Pathfinder to search the UCB Library catalog.

You can limit by form, for example, "Pictures & Graphics".

Subject keyword, for example: Chinese San Francisco

Keyword or subject: mining, education, etc.

The Printed Image

Currier & Ives: "Publisher of Cheap and Popular Pictures", sold for 5 cents to $3

hand-colored lithographs, 7000 editions 1834-1907.

hand-colored by a dozen women, one color to a worker

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aopart5b.html "The First Colored Senator and Representatives", 1872

www.mcny.org, click on exhibits, "Currier & Ives" An exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York

Try "Arguing" and "The Story of..."

Edward Curtis: The North American Indian (2000 photographic images)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

Library of Congress exhibitions

I have listed several on the course website homepage: www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is182/s02/

Maps of the United States (over 3,000 zoomable maps)

http://davidrumsey.com/

Chinese in California (a sampling of some sites on the web found through google.com)

Timeline with figures on population: www.chssc.org/timeline.html

"A History of the Chinese in California" cprr.org/Museum/Chinese_Syllabus.html

"The Chinese in California" www.notfrisco.com/calmem/chinese

"Chinese History in the U.S.A." www.sandiego-online.com/forums/chinese/htmls/history.htm

"Locke: The Last Chinese Town in California" www.gluckman.com/Locke.html

History of the U.S. Postal Service www.usps.gov/history/his1.htm

The Evolution of Communication www.tli.unt.edu/library/evolofcomm/resource.html

Railroad History

Railroad Maps 1828-1900 memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html

Railroad History Database www.rrhistorical.com/rrdata

www.rrhistorical.com

Overland Monthly www.hti.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse/journals/over.html

Stereotypes in Advertising scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/

The Colonization of Liberia by African Americans www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html

Br'er Rabbit

www.clarkart.edu/museum_programs/content.cfm?ID=133&nav=2

Rob Atkinson. "Br'er Rabbit Professionalism: A Homily on Moral Heroes and Lawyerly Mores" www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/271/Atki.pdf

"Walking the Winds", a recent CD with a Br'erTiger and Sis Rabbit tale

www.cruncynotes.com/WtheW.htm

"Song of the South" film www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/movies/mv1391.php

Dime Novel www.columbia.edu/~mfs10/pulp_history.html

Free stuff, Buffalo Bill www.talewins.com/Browzer/novels.htm

Dime Novel Roundup a magazine devoted to the dime novel

members.tripod.com/ddj9999/girlser/dnru.html