Finding books
Reference Books
Background country information
- CountryWatch This link opens in a new windowProvides country-specific intelligence and data on all countries, including daily news coverage, intelligence briefings, and up-to-date articles from regional news wire services across the globe.
- Political Handbook of the World REFERENCE JF37 .P6
- Statesman's Yearbook REFERENCE JA51 .S7
Search Terms
- Refugees (Definitions by The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science)
- Immigration/Immigrant (Definitions by The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science)
- Diaspora (Definitions by The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science)
- Migration (Definitions by Encyclopedia of Identity)
Article Databases
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- Since results may contain articles that are not peer reviewed, search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journal's peer-reviewed status.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window All journal titles in Project MUSE are peer reviewed, scholarly titles. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowContains more than 150 million pages and 160,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.
Note: AND, OR, NOT must be entered in all uppercase.
- Ebsco search for HIST2128Search across the following databases:
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Click on the Full-Text@Emmanuel at the right of articles or the more option below the item record.
- Search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journals peer-reviewed status.
Emmanuel Library Contact
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Selected Web Sites
- Homeland Security Digital Library “The nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.” The Public Collection contains over 75,000 items.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 "Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression." Harvard University.
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Explore the Voyages Database, Assessing the Slave Trade interactive estimates page, and the African Names Database. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Harvard University), and Emory University.