History Resource Center U.S.

Using History Resource Center U.S.

History Resource Center is a great resource for information on introductory concepts in American History. Full text essays are articles are reproduced from printed reference works. The essays are broken down into easy-to-read sections and all contain notes with a bibliography for further study.

To begin using History Resource Center, first go to www.nypl.org:

From nypl.org, click on “Articles and Databases” found under Books & Materials, this will take you the main Database page:

From the Database page, click-on “History and Social Sciences” found under Databases by Subject. This will list all the Databases related to History. We want to scroll down to H for History Resource Center U.S:

If you click on this link and your are not in a NYPL branch, you will need to enter your valid NYPL Barcode # and your PIN #. If you do not have library card, or you do not know your PIN #, you can visit any NYPL branch. We should now see the introductory page for History Resource Center. Now we can type any of our terms into the Basic Search box:

To search History Resource Center, hink of historical figures (James Madison, Huey P. Newton, Susan B. Anthony), historical events (Civil Rights, Palmer Raids, Reconstruction) or issues/controversies (abortion, censorship, slavery). Here is a search for the union activist “Joe Hill”:

Searching for Union activist “Joe Hill” yields the following articles:

Clicking on anyone of these titles will produce the full text of that document.

Sometimes the articles may not completely focus on your subject. For that reason, it’s best to review the titles carefully. The first article looks like a good choice. Clicking on it we can read this entry:

This entry offers a nice overview of our subject, in addition, at the bottom of our entry we find FURTHER READINGS:

• Gibbs M. Smith, Joe Hill (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1969);
• Wallace Stegner, Joe Hill, A Biographical Novel (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950).

If we would like additional information, we can look for these titles in the LEO Circulating catalog at www.nypl.org. The above titles link to their records in the LEO Catalog.

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