Survey
of Journals and Bibliography Building
The purpose of this project is fivefold:
1] To provide you with the exciting experience of
searching through those dusty old copies of journals or using the JSTOR
database (http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/databases/index.htm).
2] To give you a chance to see how the historical
profession, though its journals, deals with recent history.
3] To give you some idea of materials available in
journal sources.
4] To give me a chance to see that you do, indeed,
know how to prepare a bibliography according to the rules set forth in
Turabian.
5] To present information to the rest of the class
in the form of an oral report.
First, you are to select one of the journals listed
below (or some other journal if approved by me), and search through it for
material on our general topic. This may
take the form of articles, reviews, or even, in some cases, published
documents. From the sources you find in
the journal, you are to build a bibliography, which includes:
[1]
at least ten articles.
[2]
at least ten books gleaned from the reviews [You are not to cite the
book reviews; I
want you to
cite the books--complete publication information should be available in the
reviews.]
[3]
any other miscellaneous material you find.
Once you have collected the material, consult
Turabian for the proper form in which to present the various citations.
Your bibliography should be accompanied by a brief essay (one page should
do it), in which you discuss the historical journal's coverage of recent U.S. history.
Even though some of the journals below have been
published for decades, I would like you to look at a sampling of issues over the whole span of publication. Consult with me about ways to make your task
easier. You should be able to discuss
your assigned journal in class, and to include in your discussion a suggestion
of topics one might find in the publication.
Also, discuss the journal's limitations for our purposes in this class
(for example, note if it does not emphasize recent history).
American
Heritage
American
Historical Review
American
Quarterly
American
Studies
Diplomatic
History
Historian
History
of Education Quarterly
Journal
of American Culture
Journal
of American History
Journal
of Negro History
Journal
of Popular Culture
Journal
of Social History
Journal
of Southern History
Journal
of the History of Ideas
Journal
of the West
Journal
of Women's History
Labor
History
Western
Historical Quarterly