IS AMERICA IN DECLINE?

This guide leads you to both print, which you will need to follow up in the library, and web resources, some of which may need authentication.
Reference Collection materials can be found on level 3 of the Barr Smith Library.

If you need more help please contact your Research Librarians for History and Politics:

Margaret Hosking ph 83033706 margaret.hosking@adelaide.edu.au
Peter Newnham, ph. 83131062 peter.newnham@adelaide.edu.au

CATALOGUE

REFERENCE WORKS

DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

WEB SITES

PRIMARY SOURCES

CATALOGUE

To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful subject headings.

Published collections of source documents can be found in the catalogue buy adding the term SOURCES to your subject heading search .

United States History......browse dates
United States Foreign relations ......browse names of other countries
United States Foreign relations ......browse dates
United States Politics and government......browse dates
Balance of power
Security, International
State, The
National State
World politics....browse dates
Democracy United States History
Globalization Economic aspects United States Hegemony United States
Liberty United States History
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
United States Economic policy
United States Foreign economic relations

Don't forget that your search results ann also be sorted by date so that you can find Cold War writings from the 1950's or World Politics books from the early1990's.

REFERENCE TOOLS

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

United States

American Heritage encyclopedia of American history, John Mack Faragher, 1997
Reference collection 973.003 F219a

Dictionary of American history, Thomas L. Purvis, 1995
Reference collection 973.03 P986d

Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history, Thomas Carson, 2 vols. 1999
Reference collection 330.973 C321ga

Oxford companion to American military history, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers, 1999
Reference collection 355.00973 C444o

Companion to American foreign relations, ed. Robert D. Schulzinger, 2003
Reference collection 327.73 S391c
This is a very good number to browse in the Reference collection

Encyclopedia of American foreign policy, ed. Alexander DeConde, 2nd ed., 3 vols, 2003
Reference collection 327.73003 D296e

Encyclopedia of U.S. foreign relations, ed. Bruce W. Jentleson , 4 vols, 1997-
Reference collection 327.73 J544e

US History timeline

International

International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences 2001
also in print at Reference collection 300.3 S638i
good for "big picture" concepts such as Hegemony, Cold War etc

Dictionary of twentieth-century world history. ed. J Palmowski. 2nd ed. 2003
Reference collection 909.8203 P171d.2

Routledge atlas of American history, Martin Gilbert, 2006
Reference colleciton 911.73 G465r

Historical atlas of the twentieth century

DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

DO NOT USE Historical Abstracts - does not include USA.
America: History and life may appear very soon!

Academic OneFile 1980-
Broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.

Academic Search Premier
This database includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals.

Scopus
Largest citation and abstract coverage of quality research literature with growing coverage of the social sciences and humanities.
Includes citation tracking for related articles.

JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago......so is NOT current

Project Muse Full text collection of journals from US university presses from the mid-1990s onwards.
Includes the Washington Quarterly until late 2008.

International Political Science Abstracts
Since 1951, the International Political Science Abstracts has provided non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals (and yearbooks) all over the world. The scope of the discipline is that of the major political science journals.
Full text available from SAGE Premier 2008: 01/02/2007 to present

Newspapers are also useful as sources of comment on events.

Factiva provides full text and indexing of hundreds of newspapers, mostly from the 1990's onwards, but the Washington Post is available full text from 1984 and the New York Times is available full text from June 1980 and abstracts from January 1, 1969.

New York times has an archive online, 1851-1980 and 1981-.
If free full text is not available, use the database to search and then the article can be found on New York Time Microfilm MF PER3.
The last 20 or so years are availalbe on Factiva.

The Times (London) digital archive is available at the State Library of South Australia.
Times index
Reference Collection 05 T58a 1864-

Journals 1945-1990
containing contemporary comment will be indexed by
Periodicals index online
If full text isn't available online, check the library catalogue for the journal title - it may be held in print.
Searchable full text for a smaller list of journals available in Periodicals archive online.

and you can limit a search in JSTOR to articles published at a specific time.

WEB SITES

General and gateway sites - explore these!

WWW-VL: HISTORY: UNITED STATES

Library of Congress - American memory. Fabulous site!
Browse collections by topic to locate digitised sources, images etc. or you can even search by keywords.

Richard Jensen's Scholars' guide to the WWW - especially the sections on
History: USA

Librarians' internet: index:
United States History

Best of history websites - U.S. History

US government

Specific sites:

US Congressional Record

Foreign relations of the United States from the US State Department.

United States National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books provide online access to critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and more.

CIA , especially their Publications

White House

Harvard Project on Cold War Studies

Brookings Institute

Internet Modern History Sourcebook:
Bipolar world
America as world leader: external power
America as world leader: internal change