History 426: Pennsylvania's Indians
Your assignment is to complete a 30 page research paper on a topic related to the Indians who have been historically linked to Pennsylvania. This paper will combine research in primary and secondary sources, and should resemble an article that is worthy of inclusion in a scholarly historical journal.
Primary Source Databases
Use these databases to identify primary source documents that relate to your topic. For additional resources, visit the Primary Sources Research Guide.
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Provides full-text sources related to Native Americans and their cultures and environment, and their encounters with Europeans from 1601-2003. Includes over 100,000 pages of material and 1,482 authors. - Evans Digital Edition Provides full-text access to documents about life in 17th and 18th century America.
- American Periodical Series (APS) Provides full-text articles on American social and political development from periodicals published in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes periodicals that commenced publication between 1740-1900.
- Accessible Archives Provides full-text articles from 18th and 19th century American newspapers, periodicals and Pennsylvania county histories (covers material from 1728-1900). The "Pennsylvania Gazette" will be of particular interest.
- America's Historical Newspapers Provides full-text images of over 1,000 early American newspapers published between 1690-1922, including titles from all 50 states.
- Library of Congress: American Memory Freely accessible web site of sources from the Library of Congress special collections that consist of primary source and archival materials relating to US history and culture.
Secondary Source Databases
Use these databases to identify secondary source material related to your topic.
- America: History & Life Provides citations to articles on American and Canadian history. This extensive database covers over 1,700 journals published worldwide from 1964-present.
- JSTOR Provides full-text articles from selected journals, including about 100 history journals. Article dates vary by journal, but please not that recent years are NOT included in JSTOR.
Organizing Your Resources
RefWorks is an awesome tool that allows you to gather all of your citations in one place, create a bibliography in seconds, AND create in-text citations in the citation style of your choosing!
Interested? Click on the RefWorks icon to enter the database now. Or click on the guide below for step-by-step instructions on how to get started.
How To Reach Me
Meggan Smith
Contact info:
Musselman Library - Main Floor 102
Reference & Instruction Librarian
717-337-7009
mdsmith@gettysburg.edu
Finding Books
Don't forget that you can use MUSCAT and WorldCat to find books with primary source material.
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This guide was created for Professor Shannon's HIST 426, Pennsylvania's Indians, Fall 2009, by Meggan Smith.
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