CNX 247: Cross-Examining the Witness
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- Procuring witness accounts
Procure witness accounts: collected and published in books
On the Library web site, search DISCOVER for BOOKS:
- Select the BOOKS tab
- Type in your search statement
- Example: "arab spring" AND (interview OR testimon* OR "personal narrative" OR diar* OR letter OR correspondence OR memoir OR autobiography OR "oral history" OR witness OR "first-person")
- Example: "arab spring" AND (interview OR testimon* OR "personal narrative" OR diar* OR letter OR correspondence OR memoir OR autobiography OR "oral history" OR witness OR "first-person")
- Search!
- When you find a book in which you are interested, click on the title of the book to open the full description of it.
- Note the Library of Congress Subject Headings -- if one of the subjects looks interesting, click on the link to perform a search for just that subject!
- Note the Library of Congress Subject Headings -- if one of the subjects looks interesting, click on the link to perform a search for just that subject!
- If you are not satisfied with your results at any moment in the process, consider using some of the filters available -- for instance:
- Library: Libraries Worldwide -- this really does expand the search to a global cooperative of libraries!
- Format: Print book
- Limit to print so that you could ask the library to borrow a copy for you from another library via EZ-Borrow or Interlibrary Loan/ILL!
- Another option: use Interlibrary Loan/ILL to request PDFs of chapters from books, if you do not need the entire book.
- Library: Libraries Worldwide -- this really does expand the search to a global cooperative of libraries!
Procure witness accounts: as reported in newspapers & magazines
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758-1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829-1922).
- Eight Centuries This link opens in a new windowAn "index of indexes" to periodicals, newspapers, books, United Stated and United Kingdom government documents, other documents, artwork, and images published from the 12th Century through 1930.
- History Reference Center This link opens in a new windowAccess full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowProvides full access to the New York Times (1851-2015), Chicago Tribune (1849-1996), Los Angeles Times (1881-1995), Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-2001), and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1786-2003). (Also features recent access to the New York Times (2008- two months ago) and Wall Street Journal (2008- two months ago).
- Readers' Guide Full Text Mega This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 200 popular U.S. general interest periodicals. Covers 1983 to the present.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new windowComprehensive indexing of 500 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890 through 1982.
- U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new windowProvides access to: The New York Times (1980- present), The Wall Street Journal (1984- present), The Washington Post (1987- present), The Los Angeles Times (1985- present), and The Chicago Tribune (1985- present).
Primary source words
- interview
- testimon*
- "personal narrative"
- diar*
- letter
- correspondence
- memoir
- autobiography
- "oral history"
- witness
- "first-person"
Call Number Locations and Maps
E-Z Borrow: Books
To request print books to which we do not have immediate access, use E-ZBorrow 
Interlibrary Loan/ILL: Articles and Books
To request articles or books/book chapters or other materials not available at F&M, use Interlibrary Loan/ILL 