HS 293 - Sophomore Colloquium: Home

How to use this Research Guide [READ THIS FIRST]:

To better serve you and your research needs during this time, primary resources, books, and articles are made centrally available here. Materials are organized into three boxes:

• Internet Resources (Single or multi topic specific repositories, digital libraries, and other online collections)
• eBooks (Library eBook collections).
• Library Databases

There is a second page available on the blue tab above this box for:

• Virtual Treasure Room Visit

Your Librarians:

Jacob Gordon: gordonj@juniata.edu

Sara Kern: kerns@juniata.edu

Christine Elliott: elliotc@juniata.edu

• The Alfarata (Yearbook)
  • Available to check out from the library.
• College Newspapers
  • Juniatian 1940 - 2016 available online
  • The Juniata Echo 1890 - 1924 available online
  • The Advance 1883 - 1890 available online
• The Juniata Magazine
  • For the most recent issues of the Juniata Magazine visit the official Juniata Magazine webpage.
  • For the Spring/Summer 2008 to Spring 2020 issues visit Juniata College's Issuu.
  • Issues from Fall 1999 to Winter 2007-08 available throguh the Archives.
• Student Handbooks
  • Hand Book for Men and Women Students Volume 1 1924 - 1925
  • The Scout 1937-1938
  • The Scout 1943-1944
  • The Scout 1953-1954
  • The Scout 1956-1957

For other resources or research assistance contact Jacob Gordon: gordonj@juniata.edu

Digital Libraries

• Archive.org
  • "a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."

• Library of Congress Digital Collections
  • Includes
    • Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers
      • "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."
    • Civil War Collection
    • Historic American Buildings Survey
    • Stereograph Cards
• The British Library Digital Collections
• Harry Ransom Center At the University of Texas at Austin
  • "Advances the study of the arts and humanities by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible original cultural materials. With extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, photography, film, art, and the performing arts."
• Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project
  • "An open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials. "
• Harvard University Library Open Collections
  • OCP has created seven subject-specific web-accessible collections that can support teaching and learning around the world. Today, OCP collections account for over 2.3 million digitized pages, including more than 225,000 manuscript pages.
    • Harvard in the 17th and 18th Centuries
    • Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History
    • Islamic Heritage Project
    • Expeditions and Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age
    • Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
    • Immigration to the United States, 1789–1930
    • Women Working, 1800–1930

Special Topic Resources

• Avalon Project - American Historical Documents
  • Yale Law School's project to  "mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." Documents from 4000 BCE to 2000
• Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade
  • "Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade."
• Eyewitness to History
  • Primary sources from the Ancient World to the Twentith Century.
• Freedom Narratives
  • The digital repository "Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced."
• Women's History Archive
  • "published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present." See their list of Research Guides for topic ranges.
• National Library of Medicine Digital Collections
  • "Digital Collections is the National Library of Medicine's free online repository of biomedical resources including books, manuscripts, still images, videos, and maps. The content in Digital Collections is freely available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. Digital Collections provides unique access to NLM's rich historical resources, as well as select modern resources."