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Gary L. Austin

Nelson Poynter Memorial Library
USF St. Petersburg Campus
mailto:glaustin@usf.edu

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History [Subject Guide]

HIS 3308 - War and Society: St Petersburg (Hauser)

Books, Ebooks, Videos

Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Home Page
Click on the 'Books' tab then try searching for the name of a person or event with the keywords 'personal narrative.'
WorldCat
Worldwide catalog that allows you to identify resources not available at USF, discover where they are located, and request a copy for use at USF.

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. The mission of HathiTrust is to contribute to research, scholarship, and the common good by collaboratively collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge. There are more than 120 partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide. -- Some books require a partner login for full access or whole book download. Login with your USF NetID, after selecting USF as your partner institution.

Journal Articles

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
An index to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide (over 90% in the English-language) and 6,000 citations of book and media reviews and abstracts of dissertations.

Primary Sources

The Veterans History Project
A project of the American Folklife center of the American Library of Congress to collect, preserve, and make accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans.
Digital Collections - War & Military (Library of Congress
Includes digitized materials from the revolution to the Gulf War, including papers, photographs, maps, musical scores, and more.
See full list of Primary Source Databases

Searching the Web for Primary Sources

Try searching the internet for digital collections at state historical societies, archives, museums, and universities. many of the sites have been digitizing historical materials and making them available online.

Try searching your topic and the keyword 'archives,' 'digital', or other term.

If you know of a site, you can try using Google's 'site search' capability to search for items within that site. For example, typing this search into Google will give you a list of materials in the USF Digital collection concerning Tampa's Fort Brooke.

site:digitalcommons.usf.edu "fort brooke"

You can also use the 'filetype' search to find specific types of documents

memoir "fort brooke' filetype:pdf

map "fort brooke' filetype:jpeg

Oral Histories

If you would like to search for transcripts of oral histories, try searching a search engine using keywords such as 'military', 'oral history', and 'transcript.' You can also try searching for a particular service branch or conflict. Try using the 'filetype:pdf' to limit to pdf files.

Service Branch History Organizations

U.S. Army Center for Military History
Provides research materials covering the history of the Army and Army Air Force.
Naval history and Heritage Command
Materials concerning the history of the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Air Force History and Museums
Materials concerning Air Force History
National Museum of the Marine Corps
U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office