CC115 Research Seminar Help Page: CC115: Tocqueville's Democracy in America; Spring 2008

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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature Ref. AI3 .P7 1938 (1802 - 1881) in print

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Works about Tocqueville (as opposed to as an author) should be searched as "subject" as follows: Tocqueville Alexis De.

On Reserve for your class:
Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community
CLR Reserves-Circ Desk-2nd FL-- HN65 .P878 2000

Cambridge companion to Tocqueville
CLR Reserves-Circ Desk-2nd FL -- JC229.T8 C36 2006

Tocqueville between two worlds : the making of a political and theoretical life
CLR Reserves-Circ Desk-2nd FL -- JC229.T8 W65 2001

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Key Resource: Microbook Library of American Civilization
Print index: Ref. Z1236 .L5 1971 or http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1849.xml

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Key Resources:
Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century Ref. E169.1 .E626 2001
Encyclopedia of the American studies Ref. E169.1 .E625 2001
Encyclopedia of American history Ref. E174 .E53 2003
The Antebellum era : primary documents on events from 1820 to 1860 Ref. E301 .D43 2003
Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life Ref. GT31 .G74 2004; v. 5, 19th century

America national biography Ref. CT213 .A68 1999
National cyclopedia of American biography Ref. CT213 .N27
Dictionary of American biography Ref. E176 .D56

New dictionary of the history of ideas Ref. CB9 .N49 2005
Encyclopedia of the American religious experience Ref. BL2525 .E53 1988
Encyclopedia of American religious history Ref. BL2525 .Q44 1996
Encyclopedia of American political history Ref. E183 .E48
Encyclopedia of American cultural & intellectual history Ref. E169.1 .E624 2001
James Madison and the American nation, 1751-1836: an encyclopedia Ref. E342 .J36 1994

Encyclopedia of American economic history Ref. HC103 .E52
Encyclopedia of American social history Ref. HN57 .E58 1993
Encyclopedia of the American presidency Ref. JK511 .E53 1994

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Alexis DeTocqueville
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html

In Search of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
http://www.tocqueville.org/

Democracy in the 21st Century: Teaching with Tocqueville
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/tocqueville/

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: 19th Century Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htm

INTUTE: History: Browse by Time Period
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/history/

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
   --found in Reference, Reserve, and on 3rd floor LB2369 .G53 2003

Citing Resources: MLA style: http://www.valpo.edu/library/citing.html

VU Writing Center: http://www.valpo.edu/writingcenter/

Craft of research 4th floor Q180.55.M4 B66 2003

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