Public History Practicum

Biographical Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  Federal Judicial Center
  See entry on John Cadwalader.
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
  2nd ed.
  Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more.
• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
  2nd ed.
• Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court
  2nd ed.
• Supreme Court and Individual Rights
  5th ed.
• Dictionary of American History
  3rd ed.

Legal Research

• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  Provides full-text access to a wide range of legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also includes the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules.
  
  Go to Look up a Legal Case, By Citation to search for reported cases.
  -  Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3
  -  Newcomer, 11 Phila. 519
  
  
  
  Use the Shepardize link from a case to see where that case is cited in other cases or in articles.
  
  Open the menu on the left side of the screen by clicking on U.S. Legal and select Federal & State Cases. Search for cases by keywords and phrases in the decision.
  Example:
  
  
• HeinOnline
  This legal database provides fully-searchable text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the Federal Register (1936-1994).
  
  U.S. Statutes at Large
  Browse for 18 Stat. 335 (text of the Civil Rights Act of 1875)
  
  
  
  Law Journal Library
  Search for articles on the Civil Rights Act of 1875 or Newcomer or any other keywords.
  Find the Law Library Journal and pull up 74 Law Lib. J. 543, Checklist of Legal Newspapers in the United States. This article lists the Legal Intelligencer that first published the Newcomer case. Use the list to identify other legal newspapers.
  
  Explore other libraries in HeinOnline such as Legal Classics or Bar Journals.
• Legal Intelligencer
  The Law Library has the years 1843 (volume1) - 2006 on microfilm.
  The microfilm is stored in the microfilm area on the lower level of the Law Library in cabinet 25.
  Ask at the Law Library Reference Desk for assistance with the microform reader and for the key to make copies from the microfilm.

Thanks go to Amy Spare, reference librarian at Villanova University Law School, for her assistance.

Contemporary Newspapers & Magazines

• Historical New York Times
  Complete digital archive of the New York Times back to 1851.
• America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
  A digital collection of early American newspapers from 1690 to 1922. It includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-1920.  Searches can be limited by town, state, and time period.
  

  Example:
  "Civil Rights." Philadelphia Inquirer, February 26, 1876, 3.

• American Periodicals Series Online
  Search a selection of periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
  Suggested keywords: "Fields Cook" - "Civil Rights" - Philadelphia - "Southern Question"
  

  Example:
  Chickering, J.W.  "Civil Rights." New York Observer and Chronicle, March 30, 1876, 101.

• The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  Contains full-text of the Charleston Mercury, the New York Herald, and the Richmond Enquirer published between 1860 and 1865. Contains news articles, eye-witness and official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies and images of battlefield maps and illustrations.
• Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspaper Collection
  A collection of newspapers from the civil war era dated from February 23,1831 to February 14,1877. Includes full text of articles, photographs and advertisements.
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  Includes the complete text of major 19th century African-American newspapers. Also included are early biographies, essays and editorials and vital statistics in 8 works such as Freedman's Journal (1827-1830), The North Star (1847-1851) and Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859).
• OpinionArchives
  Includes the complete archives of Harper's Magazine (1850-) and The Nation (1865-).

Literature Review

• Library Catalog

  Try these subjects:
  subject search: Civil Rights - United States - History
  subject search: Civil Rights - United States - History - Sources
  subject search: Equality before the law - United States - History
  subject search: Constitutional Amendments - United States - History
  

• WorldCat
  A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holding s and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
• EZ-Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is usually faster than interlibrary loan, since the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently checked out by somebody else.
• America: History & Life
  The standard index to scholarly journals in the field of American history. Scholarly journal articles may include primary sources and often reference them in footnotes or bibliographies. Includes book reviews and dissertations.
• Dissertations & Theses Full Text
  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.
  The often extensive bibliographies in dissertations can be invaluable.
  

  Example:
  Williams. R. Owen. Unequal justice under law: The Supreme Court and America's first civil rights movement, 1857-1883. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 2009.

Citing Your Sources

• The Chicago Manual of Style
  Available online and in print.
  Use the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide for easy reference.
  6th edition online only.
  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
  Information desk copy:  Z253.U69 2003
• RefWorks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.