J300: Presidential Elections
Welcome to the library class page for J300: Modern Presidential Elections: Substance and Image in Political Campaigns. This page is designed to help you with your online museum exhibition assignment.
Library Catalog: IUCAT
Subject Terms - try using these in the Subject box in Advanced Keyword Search, or combine them with your own keywords:
presidents united states election history
presidential candidates united states history
political campaigns united states history
political culture united states history 20th century
communication in politics
mass media political aspects
Atlantic
Collier's
Esquire
Harper's
Life
Look
Newsweek
Saturday Evening Post
Time
ALF = Auxiliary Library Facility
ALF-R = Auxiliary Library Facility restricted.
B-Lilly = The Lilly Library
GIMSS = Government Information, Microforms, and Statistical Services, East Tower 2nd floor of the Wells Library
RCSEC = Wells Library Secure Area. Also Wells Library Secure Area Oversized. Ask Circulation for assistance.
RCSECJOU = Wells Library Secure Area Journals. Ask Circulation for assistance.
RCSTACKS = East Tower of the Wells Library. Check the posters near the elevators for the correct floor.
*Most periodicals cannot be checked out. Some restricted or secure materials may have to be read in a reading room, which are located at GIMSS or the Lilly.
Magazine Databases
- Periodicals Archive Online - offers digital back files of over 400 humanities and social sciences journals.
- Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - index to popular American magazines. Use this database to locate citations to relevant articles.
Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), Los Angeles Times (1881-1985), New York Times (1851-2003), Washington Post (1877-1990)
- Check IUCAT for more recent holdings.
Digital Collections
- American Memory: Presidential Inaugurations - digitized materials from the Library of Congress.
- America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library
- Presidential Campaigns: A Cartoon History, 1789-1796 - selection of political cartoons by the Indiana University Libraries
- Presidential Libraries - links to the presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Archives
- Politics and Presidents - an October celebration of IUB archives and special collections. You could even win $100!
Secondary Sources: Finding Articles
- America: History & Life - index of history articles, books, dissertations, etc. If your article is not in full text, click the IULINK icon to check for availability.
- JSTOR - full text access to scholarly journal articles of a variety subjects.
- Project Muse - full text access to scholarly journal articles of a variety subjects.
- Academic Search (EBSCO) - online access to scholarly and popular journal and magazine articles of all subjects.
Looking for a scanner? Need scanner help?
Scanners in the Wells Library are located on the first floor of the East Tower within the mix of regular computer terminals. Additional scanners are available in the Information Commons. Also, the Government Information, Microforms & Statistical Services (GIMSS) Department (2nd Floor, East Tower) has one public scanner. There are directions on how to scan images at each terminal. You can also ask our helpful librarians or UITS staff for assistance.
Copyright and Fair Use
Feel free to contact me, your visiting librarian for history Malia Willey: mewilley@indiana.edu, if you have any questions.
