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HIST 101 - American Social Reform Baumgartner (2015): Finding Books

CONSORT

Search the CONSORT CATALOG for items held by CONSORT Libraries. Consort is a shared catalog for the following schools: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. You can request books held in other CONSORT libraries directly through the CONSORT system. These items take an average or 2-4 working days to be delivered to our library. You will receive a message on your @wooster.edu account to let you know when items have arrived. They will be placed on hold for you at the Gault Reserves Desk.

OhioLINK

Search the OhioLINK CATALOG for items held by OhioLINK Libraries. You can request books held in other OhioLINK libraries directly through the OhioLINK system. These items take an average or 2-4 working days to be delivered to our library. You will receive a message on your @wooster.edu account to let you know when items have arrived. They will be placed on hold for you at the Gault Reserves Desk.

EXAMPLE--BOOK RESOURCE

There are many print resources available in WOO MAIN that will be useful for researching topics in this course.  One title that you may want to look at is Moralists and modernizers : America's pre-Civil War reformers by Steven Mintz.  If you look at the link to the record, you will see that it is available in as a print source in several CONSORT libraries.  If you can go to the WOO Main shelf to find the book under the CALL NUMBER WOO MAIN HN 57.M56 1995, other books on the same topic will be shelved in the same area.  

Also, you can follow the SUBJECT LINK United States--Social Conditions--To 1865 within the record to find out what other titles have been assigned this subject link.

Keywords

Some keywords to consider for this course:

ABOLITION and SLAVERY

AMERICA and REFORM

AMERICA and SOCIAL CONDITIONS

FEMINISM and UNITED STATES

PROHIBITION and UNITED STATES

SOCIAL REFORM and UNITED STATES

TEMPERANCE and UNITED STATES

WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION

WOMEN'S RIGHTS and UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES and REFORM

UNITED STATES and SOCIAL CONDITIONS

 

LC Subject Headings

Books in the CONSORT and OhioLINK catalogs are assigned Library of Congress (LC)

Subject Headings. Here are some subject headings to consider for this course:

FEMINISM--UNITED STATES--HISTORY

PROHIBITION--UNITED STATES--HISTORY

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS--UNITED STATES--HISTORY

SOCIAL PROBLEMS--UNITED STATES--HISTORY

SOCIAL REFORMERS--UNITED STATES--HISTORY

TEMPERANCE--UNITED STATES--HISTORY

WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION

UNITED STATES--ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

UNITED STATES--SOCIAL CONDITIONS

 

 

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