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Welcome to the guide for finding books and book reviews on modern American History for Dr. Croce's HIST 152.

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"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce:

Seminar Preparation: browse for topics in all the course books and/or in Web Resources (Bd), and consider your own interests, majors, and career paths

Learning Outcomes and Seminar Goals: identifying academic and public intellectual history books on American culture, widely conceived, from the 1860s to the present, finding these kinds of books, book reviews about them, and articles and more related to the books’ topics.

Finding Books on Modern American History

We have several options for finding books, including searching through OneSearch and locating both physical books and eBooks.

Discovery (How to use OneSearch)
Instructions on searching for books (and other items) using our main discovery tool, OneSearch.
Finding Items in the duPont-Ball Library
A guide with helpful tips for finding physical items in the library.

You may also go directly to the databases for eBooks. Here are links to these eBook collections as well as how to download them:

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A searchable, full-text database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.

Databases for locating book reviews

Many of our article databases have a way to limit your search to book reviews, even if they are not listed below.

Start your search for book reviews in the databases. Use the title of the book as your search term. Look for a search option that lets you limit the results to book reviews.

ProQuest Complete This link opens in a new window
Searching most of the ProQuest databases at once, including ProQuest Research, ABI/Inform, GenderWatch, Hoovers Company Records, ProQuest Biology, Science, and Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Newspapers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of scholarly journals. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The most recent 3-5 years of journals are generally not available. JSTOR has a number of other collections to which we do not subscribe. Provided through a cooperative agreement with Stetson's College of Law Library.
EBSCO Research Databases This link opens in a new window
A search interface to multiple databases on the EBSCO platform. (Academic Search Premier, MLA, PsycInfo, and more)
Choice Book Reviews This link opens in a new window
Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is one of the standard sources for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Choice publishes more than 7,000 concise, authoritative reviews annually. Reviews are for books reviewed from 1988 to date. Limited to ONE simultaneous user. Please LOGOUT when done.

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American History Books and Book Reviews