History Department

History 300, methods and skills of history, is designed to give history students the necessary research and writing tools to advance into the upper levels of the history major. This page offers a collection of helpful links and resources to make navigating the UWSP library and online database research a lot easier and more efficient.

Article Databases by Subject

Select "History" as Subject area, then search each database individually, such as:

The Library of Congress subject heading is a great tool for finding resources with similar themes. When you are searching for materials, always write down the LOC subject headings (found at the bottom of the library catalog page), as it will help you find more materials listed on the same topic. The LOC heading contains all other materials that a library owns that fit under that heading. For example, a LOC heading can be either very broad, such as "United States, Maps" or very specific "War crime trials, Manila, 1946"

The UWSP Library has at its disposal a collection of primary source microfilm that would add greatly to a resarch paper. A microfilm is a film (like a movie reel) with hundreds of pages of photo-copied documents that have been shrunk so little a special machine in the library is required to read them. Microflim documents relevant to history are on the 6th floor of the UWSP library just outside the southeast stairwell. To use the machine, just ask the librarian in the 6th floor office for assistance. Below is a sample of the types of microfilm documents found. For a complete list, speak with your History 300 professor;

Wisconsin Territorial Papers, 1836-1848
History of US Forces in Korea
Malcolm X: FBI Servillence File
Letters sent by Army HQ, 1828-1903