Putting history at your students’ fingertips Sources in US History Online Slavery in America.

Putting history at your students’ fingertips

Sources in US History Online Slavery in America

What are Primary Sources & why are they important to Community Colleges?

What are primary sources? Published/Created contemporary with event Books/Monographs, Newspapers, Government Reports, Unpublished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 under represented 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 Increases access to rare, restricted materials in user friendly package Ideal for Homework/Curriculum development

– Increased requirement for “research paper”

Sources in U.S. History Online

Available Now!

Slavery in America

Civil War in America

American Revolution

Coming Soon!

Women’s Fight for the VoteDec 08

Immigration in America Dec 08

These “History Topics” are current now!

What is Sources in U.S. History Online?

A new approach to serving students’ high interest areas:

Topically focused, digital primary source collections Designed for public library patrons, Students and faculty in high school, community college, and university For subject matter ‘experts” without access to scholarly resources

Devoted to topics in American Studies History, Religion, Literature, Patriotism, Battles, Civil Rights, Family/Place

Affordable, user-friendly, visually attractive Makes Gale’s most prestigious assets accessible to broader audience Enhances value of library’s reference and periodical investments

Each contains approx 75,000-100,000 pages from 500+ works

Adapted to make research easy for non-researchers: Thematic outlines Contextual Essays Subject Indexing Pre-Configured Searches

Full power – but right-sized for your library

Full text Search Basic Search Advanced Search Proximity Search Fuzzy Search

Browse Authors Titles Subjects

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

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

Screen split into 3 ‘activity focused’ areas

Task Pane

Navigation Pane

Document Pane

Photographs promote ‘instant interest’

Enhanced Context: Spotlight Essays

From visual… …to essay

….to sample searches

Helps teach the research process

Enhanced Context

Table of contents

Created by leading scholars

Links to essays

Essays link to specific documents in collection

Context enhances:

patrons’ understanding

documents relevance

Usage and usefulness

.

Improved Navigation

Subject indexing helps suggest & build ‘automatic’ searches

Visual Navigation bar brings subject to life

The Civil War

More than 500 documents for 90,000 pages

Sources come from Sabin and other Gale Digital archives

Editor: Professor Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School

The Most researched and written-about topic in US History

Monuments and Battlefields in almost every state

Subject of many recent bestsellers & literary classics: Bruce Catton Stephen Hyslop Steven Ambrose Shelby Foote Stephen Crane

Outlines and Essays—Civil War

I Armies and CombatantsConscription

Law

Battles

Armies

Soldiers

Black Troops

Navy and Naval Operations

II Art of WarfareTactics and Military Training

Military Technology

III LeadershipAbraham 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)

Thomas ‘Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863)

IV-Beyond the BattlefieldPrisoners and Jailed Civilians

Medical

Spies

Sanitary Commission

Religion

Soldiers’ Obituaries

V – Government and Foreign PolicyLaw

Foreign Relations

British View of the War

Secession

Emancipation

V - Home FrontElection of 1860

Election of 1864

Civilian Life

Sermons of the War

VII - Literary GenresHistories and Chronologies

Reminiscences Post 1880

Children’s Histories and Biographies

Types of Works—Civil War

Personal narratives and memoirs

Pamphlets and political speeches

Sermons and songs

Regimental histories and photograph albums

Legal treatises and children's books.

Sample Searches—Civil 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

2) Diplomatic crisis: The Trent Affair

Search: Trent affair = 18 results

3) Leadership: Confederate field commander Stonewall Jackson

Search "Stownwall Jackson" = 77 results;

Search Stonewall Jackson + Manassas = 51 results

Search Stonewall Jackson + Chancellorsville = 33 results