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. They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.
Search the OhioLINK CATALOG for items held by OhioLINK Libraries. You can request books held in other OhioLINK libraries directly through the OhioLINK system. They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.
History materials are found in the following areas of the library:
Woo Reference
Woo Main
Woo Oversize
Woo Periodicals
History materials will be in the C (Auxilary Sciences of History), D (World History), E & F (History of the Americas) classification areas. Follow the link to see a detailed outline.
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Key Words
•Use AND between key words to narrow your topics
Example: Searching just VIETNAM will bring up all entries that contain VIETNAM.
Searching VIETNAM and WAR will bring up only those entries on VIETNAM that deal with WAR.
If you search , VIETNAM and WAR and PROTEST the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--VIETNAM, WAR, PROTEST.
•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.
Example:
Example: MEMOR* will bring up MEMORIAL, MEMORIALS, MEMORY
By FORMAT, LANGUAGE, LOCATION, DATE OF PUBLICATION
•In CONSORT you can go to the top tool bar to MODIFY SEARCH
•if you are only want INTERNET RESOURCES, click on that option in the COMPUTER FILE box OR you can limit your search to WOO ONLINE in the LOCATION box
•look at other option boxes, to further refine your results by language or year of publication.
There are many e-book resources available. Titles that you might want to look at are:
Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-First Century Perspectives
Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements int he 1960s
Posters for Peace
Presidents and Protesters: Political Rhetoric in the 1960s
Protest in the Vietnam War Era
Radicals, Rhetoric, and the War
Some keywords to consider for this course:
•Vietnam and collective memory
•Vietnam and oral history
•Vietnam and personal narrative
•Vietnam and protest
•Vietnam and propaganda
•Vietnam and rhetoric
•Vietnam and war
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:
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 DRAFT RESISTERS
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 HISTORY SOURCES
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 JOURNALISTS
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 MASS MEDIA AND THE WAR
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 MONUMENTS
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 MUSIC AND THE WAR
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 PERSONAL NARRATIVES
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 POETRY
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 PICTORIAL WORKS
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 PRESS COVERAGE
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 PROPAGANDA
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 PROTEST MOVEMENTS
•VIETNAM WAR 1961-1975 SOCIAL ASPECTS