Sources in US History Online

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Sources in US History Online
History at your Students Fingertips!
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What are Primary Sources why are they
important to Community College Libraries?

• What are primary sources?
• Books/Monographs, Newspapers, Government Reports,
  Unpublished Manuscripts Private papers of key
  individuals
• Sermons, speeches and public proclamations
• Provides the evidence to history and culture
• History in the First Person as viewed by those
  who lived it
• Illuminates underrepresented populations, themes
  and events
• Captures period, place, community and mindset
• The un-interpreted past history the official
  record, left out
• A private view of history tells how people
  feel, shows multiple points of view
• Primary Sources Perfect for Community Colleges
• Creates a genuine primary source document
  environment
• Encourages students to develop their own ideas
  and opinions about history
• Brings history to life in a way textbooks cannot
• Perfect for introductory history courses
• Increased requirement for research paper,
  furthers creativity and originality
• Allows teachers to use other kinds of resources
  for teaching

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Sources in U.S. History Online

• Available Now!
• Slavery in America
• Civil War in America
• American Revolution

These History Topics are current now!
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What is Sources in U.S. History Online?

• A new approach to serving students and teachers
  interest areas
• Topically focused, digital primary source
  collections
• Designed for students and teachers in community
  colleges
• Devoted to topics in American Studies
• History, African Americans, Religion, Literature,
  Patriotism, Battles, Civil Rights, Family
• Affordable, user-friendly, visually attractive
• Makes Gales most prestigious assets accessible
  to broader audience
• Enhances value of librarys reference and
  periodical investments
• Each contains approx 75,000-95,000 pages from
  500 works
• Adapted to make research easy for
  non-researchers
• Thematic outlines
• Contextual Essays
• Subject Indexing
• Pre-Configured Searches

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Full power but right-sized for your library

• Core features
• Hit-Term highlighting
• Scale pages
• Bookmarks
• E Table of Contents
• Print Email
• Usage Report
• Help Screens

• Full text Search
• Basic Search
• Advanced Search
• Proximity Search
• Fuzzy Search
• Browse
• Authors
• Titles
• Subjects

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Improved User Interface

• Less like work, more like play! feels like a web
  site vs. database
• Easy navigation between documents and the
  information related to that document
• Several ways to access documents through the key
  subjects, through browse, or through traditional
  searches
• Excellent feedback from high school and
  undergraduate instructors students

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Screen split into 3 activity focused areas
Document Pane
Task Pane
Photographs promote instant interest
Navigation Pane
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Enhanced Context Spotlight Essays
Helps teach the research process
From visual to essay .to sample searches
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Enhanced Context

• Table of contents
• Created by leading scholars
• Links to essays
• Essays link to specific documents in collection
• Context enhances
• students understanding
• documents relevance
• Usage and usefulness

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Improved Navigation

• Subject indexing helps suggest build
  automatic searches
• Visual Navigation bar brings subject to life

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Slavery - the defining issue in American history

• Highly regional
• From slave states in south
• To industrial north
• To abolition centers
• Highly personal
• 4 million slaves in 1860 are the family history
  of 36 million African Americans today
• Highly current
• Over 28 million people in slavery today
• Race relations at the heart of current debates
• Essential to curriculum in U.S. History

US Census Report National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center
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Outline and EssaysSlavery in America

• Introduction Vernon Burton (U of Illinois)
• I The Transatlantic Slave Trade
• The Slave Trade
• Slavery in the Caribbean
• II Antebellum
• Plantation Life
• Free Blacks
• Legal Aspects
• Other Manifestations of Slavery
• Slave Narratives
• Frederick Douglas
• Insurrections

• III Build up to War
• Abolition
• Colonization
• Proslavery Arguments
• Antislavery Arguments
• Slaverys Expansion
• Fugitive Slaves
• The Opening Violence
• IV War
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Civil War
• Emancipation
• Black Soldiers
• V Slavery in Arts and Literature
• Uncle Toms Cabin
• Other Fiction
• Poems, Songs and Plays

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Types of works

• More than 500 documents for 75,000 pages
• Sources come from Sabin American and the
  Anti-Slavery collection at Oberlin College

• Document types
• Personal narratives
• Pamphlets
• Political Addresses speeches
• Monographs
• Sermons
• Plays, songs, poetic and fictional works
  published between the 17th and late 19th
  centuries.

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Sample Searches

• Search Missouri Compromise 81 results
• Search Wilmot Proviso 32 results
• Search Fugitive Slave Laws 113 results
• Search Underground Railroads 39 results
• Search Dred Scott 50 results
• Not overwhelming for the average user and
  student- perfect for assignments. Brings
  students out of the spoon-fed environment,
  enabling them to form their own ideas and
  opinions.
• Titles hand selected by scholars for relevance.

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The Civil War

• More than 400 documents for 80,000 pages
• Sources come from Sabin Americana and other Gale
  Digital Collections
• Editor Professor Paul Finkelman, Albany Law
  School
• The Most researched and written-about topic in US
  History
• Monuments and Battlefields in almost every state

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Outline and EssaysCivil War

• IV Beyond the Battlefield
• Prisoners and Jailed Civilians
• Medical
• Spies
• Sanitary Commission
• Religion
• Soldiers Obituaries
• V Government and Foreign Policy
• Law
• Foreign Relations
• British View of the War
• Secession
• Emancipation
• VI Home Front
• Election of 1860
• Election of 1864
• Civilian Life
• Sermons of the War

• I Armies and Combatants
• Conscription
• Law
• Battles
• Armies
• Soldiers
• Black Troops
• Navy and Naval Operations
• II Art of Warfare
• Tactics and Military Training
• Military Technology
• III Leadership
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
• George B. McClellan (1826-1885)
• Philip Sheridan (1831-1888)
• George B. McClellan (1826-1885)
• William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891
• Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)

VII Literary Genres Histories and
Chronologies Reminiscences Post 1880 Childrens
Histories and Biographies
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Sample SearchesCivil War

• Experience of soldiers at the Battle of
  Gettysburg (1-3 July1863)
• Standard searches
• Search Gettysburg 119 results
• Search killed at Gettysburg 14 results
• Search killed n7 Gettysburg 17 results
• Diplomatic crisis The Trent Affair
• Search Trent affair 18 results
• Leadership Confederate field commander Stonewall
  Jackson
• Search "Stonewall Jackson" 77 results
• Search Stonewall Jackson Manassas 51 results
• Search Stonewall Jackson Chancellorsville 33
  results

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The American Revolution

• Nearly 500 documents or 93,000 pages
• Sources come from Sabin Americana and other Gale
  Digital Collections
• Editor Professor Katherine A. Hermés at Central
  Connecticut State University.

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Outline and EssaysAmerican Revolution

• V Society and Culture
• Economy
• Religion
• Slavery and Race
• Indian Relations
• Women
• Arts and Ideas
• VI Histories and Reference Works
• Legislative Documents and Journals
• Collected Writings of Major Figures
• Contemporary Reference Works
• History
• Biography
• VII Letters and Memoirs
• Military Memoirs and Narratives
• Civilian Memoirs and Narratives
• Personal and Official Correspondences

• I Leadership
• British Military Leaders
• American Military Leaders
• British Politicians
• American Politicians
• II Military Affairs
• Land Campaigns and Battles
• Naval Campaigns and Battles
• Soldiers
• III Political Debate
• Taxation
• Empire
• The Right to Rebel
• Loyalism
• Seeking Peace
• IV Government
• Colonial Policy
• The Continental Congress
• State Governments

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Sample SearchesAmerican Revolution
Search Yorktown 80 results Search Loyalist
48 results Search Bunker Hill 99
results Search Patriot 183 results

• Search George Washington 71 results
• Search militia 245 results
• Search Boston Massacre 15 results
• Search taxation 204 results