HISTORY: POP CULTURE - RESEARCH PROJECT (Vidmar)

Library Databases & eBooks

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Databases

Pop Culture Universe (ABC-CLIO)

The African-American Experience (ABC-CLIO)

Academic OneFile (Gale)

U.S. History in Context (Gale)

eBooks

African American Culture

American Blockbuster: Movies that Defined Their Generations

Geek Heroines: An Encyclopedia of Female Heroes in American Popular Culture

History of Trans Representation in American Television & Film Genres

Listen to Rap!

St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture

Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema

Scroll down to see Contents.
Includes chapters on women and African- Americans.

Queer Cinema in America

Women in Popular Culture

The 1960s Cultural Revolution

The 1960s Counterculture

Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies

Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties

Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties

Primary Sources

These are possible places to locate primary sources. The article you find here may or may not qualify as a primary source for your topic. You must make that determination.

Possible Primary Sources - Online:

Boston Globe (ProQuest)

(Coverage: 1980-present)

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Note: if using quotes around a term in BG, do not also put an asterisk in that term (as the search will not work correctly)
New York Times (Gale)

(Coverage: 1985-present)

U.S. History in Context (Gale) - After doing a search, look for a link to the Primary Sources Content Type. (If there are no primary sources for your search, the link will not be there)

Possible Primary Sources - on cart:

American Decades Primary Sources
The Times of the Sixties, Seventies, or Eighties

Library Catalogs (to find nonfiction books)

LS LIBRARY CATALOG

LS Book Catalog

PUBLIC LIBRARY CATALOGS

Minuteman Library Network Catalog

Boston Public Library Catalog

How do I get a public library card?

Library cards for Minuteman Library Network

Library Cards for Boston Public Library

Citation

Citation Basics:

Citation means crediting info from a source that you used. To cite, you provide identifying information about the source.

Citation has 2 aspects; you must do BOTH:

Rewrite ideas from the source (change words and sentence structure) OR provide a direct quotation.
Give credit to the source. You must do this even if you put the information in your own words.

Citation Generators:

For this project, use MLA 9 citation style with footnotes.

[NOTE: Library databases provide bibliographic citations; just export or copy/paste them.]

Footnotes:

Footnote examples

Keywords

As you search and skim, write down keywords that could help you find more information. Try those keywords in a search.

Using additional keywords in a search may help you narrow search results (so you have a more manageable number to skim and scan).

For example, if you were researching "Walt Disney," then you might find keywords such as:

Disneyland animation

Mickey Mouse legacy

Donald Duck criticism

Steamboat Willie (film)

The above keywords might help you find more information for the topic of "Walt Disney." They could also help narrow your topic to a more specific aspect of his work and how it was received.