History 431--College Life: Universities and Society in Modern America

Spring 2001

Clarence L. Mohr

Professor and Chair Department of History
University of South Alabama

Syllabus

 

Important Web Sites:

The Duke University Archives -- http://www.duke.edu/web/Archives/

The History of UVa in the 20th Century -- http://gwis.virginia.edu/~pub_hist/courses/hius330/

University Newspapers on the Internet--http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/internet/univ.htm

Higher Education Consortium Home Pages (and similar or related)--http://www.necop.org/pages.html

College and University Home Pages - Alphabetical Listing --http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html

Association of American Universities--http://www.tulane.edu/~aau/

National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges--http://www.nasulgc.org/

Council of Graduate Schools--http://www.cgsnet.org/

Standards for Success--http://www.s4s.org/test/

American Council on Education--http://www.acenet.edu/

Educause--http://www.educause.edu/

College is Possible--http://www.CollegeIsPossible.org/

Academic Excellence and Cost Management-- http://www.acenet.edu/About/programs/Programs&Analysis/policy&analysis/cost-awards/home.cfm

Council for Higher Education Accreditation--http://www.chea.org/About/index.html#whatImportant Reference Book

http://gopher.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

http://higher-ed.org/resources/inaugural_kerr.html

http://higher-ed.org/history.htm

http://www.ucrhistory.ucr.edu/index.html

http://www.straw.com/fsm-a/draper/draper_ch1-10.html

http://www.history.uiuc.edu/mlove/eps199e/suppleme.htm

http://www.wesleyan.edu/acad-forum/Essays/plawson.htm

http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/

http://www.narhist.ewu.edu/ar/berkeley/berkeley.html

Catalog Search

Keyword Searches:
universities OR colleges AND "united states"
education AND higher AND history

Subject Searches:
College teaching--United States--History
Private universities and colleges--United States
Education, higher --United States
women--education (higher)

A Few Reference Books

Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. REF LC 1752.H57 1998

Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegregation: The American Experience. REF LC 212.52 .R34 1998

Encyclopedia of American Education. REF LB17. U54 1996

Encyclopedia of American Social History. Bookshelves HN 57 .E58 1993

Online Style Guide:

Citing Internet Sources http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~amrel/cit.html

Periodical Indexes:

InfoTrac's Expanded Academic Index. Some full-text. Includes book reviews. Available on campus and remotely through the University Library homepage.

Ebsco's Academic Search Elite. Some full-text. Includes book reviews. Available on campus and remotely through the University Library homepage.

Proquest's PA Research II. Some full-text. Available only on campus through University Library homepage.

America: History and Life. Excellent abstracts, but no full-text. Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes book reviews. Available on campus and remotely through the University Library homepage Electronic Indexes button.

Dissertation Abstracts. USA theses submitted in pdf format available at no charge. Available on campus only through the University Library homepage.

Article First. No full-text. Through FirstSearch on the homepage.

JSTOR --This is a collection of full-text journals which are usually at least 3 to 5 years old, but often extend back many years. The journals may be searched separately or as a group. Some relevant journals in JSTOR are:

Journal of Higher Education, Vols. 1-66, 1930-1995 (Moving Wall of 5 years)
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Issues 1-14, 1993-1996 Moving Wall: 3 years
Journal of Negro Education Vols. 1-63, 1932-1994 (Moving Wall: 5 years)
Sociology of Education. Vols. 37-68, 1963-1995 (Moving Wall of 5 years).
Continues Journal of Educational Sociology, Vols 1-36, 1927-1963
Journal of Black Studies
American Quarterly
Journal of Negro History
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Modern History
Journal of American History
American Journal of Sociology
American Historical Review
Annual Review of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Callalloo
Social Psychology Quarterly
William and Mary Quarterly
Reviews in American History
Journal of Southern History

Library Resource Guides:

History

A thorough list of resources used for research in history and available in our library. Selected by Kathy Jones, Reference Librarian. http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/guides/history.htm

 

 

Clarence L. Mohr Professor and Chair Department of History,
University of South Alabama Mobile, Alabama, 36688
TELEPHONE (334) 460-6210
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last modified Jan. 3, 2001