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Recommended Reading
Reference Books
Databases & Articles
Audiovisual Library
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Subject Librarian:
Philip Abela
[Silent film actress, Theda Bara, standing outside the Blackstone Theater]. Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0003451. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. Available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html (12 July 2007) |
Recommended Reading 
Books in the Short Loan Collection and electronic readings for this course are available by searching Readings & Exams.
Recommended Texts
- Mintz, Steven and Randy Roberts, eds, Hollywood’s America: United States History Through its Films, New York, 1995. Library copies
- Rollins, Peter C., ed., Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context, rev. edn, Lexington, 1998. Library copies
Reference Books
Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.
- Kutler, Stanley I., ed., Dictionary of American History, 3rd edn, New York, 2003. Library copies
This is a comprehensive 10-volume dictionary and is an excellent introduction to many topics in American history.
- Boyer, Paul S., ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford, 2001.
- Chambers, John Whiteclay, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Military History, New York, 1999. Library copies
- Purvis, Thomas L., A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass, 1997. Library copies
Databases & Articles
To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes journal articles.
- America: History & Life
This is an indexing database with abstracts of articles, but not always the full text.
- JSTOR
This is a full-text database. The complete articles are available online. JSTOR is an archival database; it has every issue of a journal going back to the very first issue, but it doesn't always have the most recent few years.
- Project Muse
Project Muse is a full-text collection of recent journals, in some cases continuing the online coverage of journals from JSTOR.
There are more databases on the History and Film Studies webpages.
Audiovisual Library
Required Viewing
All films which are required viewing for this course are on Short Loan at the Audiovisual Library. Ask for the title of the film at the Desk. For all other films you must provide AV Library Desk Staff with a callnumber which can be found in the Library catalogue.
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