ENGL 366: Course Material and Library Guide on the Thibodaux Massacre
BRANDY BURBANTE
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Dr. Michael S. Martin
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Department of English, Modern Languages, and Cultural Studies
Nicholls State University
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Thibodaux, La 70301
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Discovery Search Box
The databases below range from being local repositories to national ones. Some databases are thematic, while others are grouped according to a shared region or form of media. Try out as many databases as you can, and use the search engine guide (lefthand navigation) to help you with search terms. Note: These specific library electronic resources are accessible through Nicholls State only, though other university libraries may have access. Do check with local libraries for access, too.
Discovery Database
This library link is the equivalent to the "Google of the Library," in that the guide searches the most resources of all our databases. The Discovery Database is the best place to start your searching!
Databases
Other Databases
These last databases cover different ground and provide images, law information, and other materials about Louisiana History
- LOUISana Digital Library This link opens in a new windowThe LOUISiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of Louisiana institutions that provides over 144,000 digital materials. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from the Louisiana institution’s archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories in the state electronically accessible to Louisiana residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries. The LOUISiana Digital Library contains photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document history and culture.
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new windowThis HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Within this library is a section containing all modern law review articles on the subject. This library will continue to grow, not only from new scholarship but also from historical material that we continue to locate and add to the collection.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and the US Congressional Serial Set and more than 2,600 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase. This HeinOnline Academic database package includes, among other things, special collections on Criminal Justice, History, Foreign Relations, Religion and the Law and Women and the Law.
- Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index This link opens in a new windowThe Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index references obituaries and death notices published in New Orleans newspapers from 1804-1972 and biographical information published in older Louisiana collective biographies.
Louisiana State Documents Digital Archive
The primary goal of the Digital Archive is to provide the public with permanent access to digital publications that state agencies submit. Louisiana state documents, print and digital, are cataloged in the online catalog of the State Library and are available for use by all libraries regardless of depository status.
https://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p267101coll4
- Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new windowAn essential resource for ethnic and racial studies, this database includes abstracting for the top academic journals, books, periodicals and newspapers related to the field.
Databases
Databases with Scholarly Sources & More
Each of these databases has something to offer about the Thibodaux Massacre or other related historical events, people, and organizations in Louisiana during the late 1800s. And in each one you can find Scholarly or Peer-Reviewed Sources.
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowJSTOR’s Arts and Sciences Collections offer full-text access to hundred of titles in many disciplines of the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, business and education.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is your trusted source for the highest quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
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Newspaper Databases
Newspaper databases are great because they can give insight into primary texts and differing viewpoints from the day. Although not considered scholarly, Newspapers are irreplaceable sources of knowledge and perspective.
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new windowAfrican American Newspapers, 1827-1998, provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes papers from more than 35 states, features many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles.
- Bayou State Periodical Index This link opens in a new windowBayou State Periodical Index: An index to Louisiana popular periodicals
- Black Life in America, Series 1: 1704 - 1877 & Series 2: 1878 - 1975 This link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage of the African American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 19,000 American and global newspapers from 1704 to 1975, including over 400 African American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in African American History. Updated daily.
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowThe electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers–all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowA full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
- Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis Nexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni contains over 15,000 sources useful for General News, Business, and Law research. It provides access to legal publications, including cases, statues, law reviews and legal journals.