LibGuides: History & Political Science: Getting Started

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Research 101 - Getting Started in Library Research

Try the steps outlined in this guide for a simple and effective search strategy to find information for your research paper, project or presentation.

Both the CRAAP Detector and the RADCAB method are good ways to test your information source for reliability.

U.S. History In Context
An overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, people and issues in a comprehensive, contextual, media-rich online collection of historical information. Combines reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, scholarly analysis, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. Can cross-search with World History in Context.

World History (Gale in Context)
Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. This database merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Audience: Middle School & Above
Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
GIC offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Topic and country portals bring together relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each gateway page includes an overview, "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information plus multimedia including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.

OxResearch
Created by Oxford Analytica, “a first draft of history” providing succinct articles analyzing world and regional economic and political developments of major significance, and evaluates issues and events within a coherent political, social, and economic framework. The objective, multidisciplinary articles are compiled by an international network of faculty members at Oxford and other leading universities, as well as think-tanks and other institutions of international standing and include economists, international relations specialists, and political/social analysts.
CQ Researcher
Original, in-depth, authoritative analysis on a range of political and social-policy issues. Reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Each report includes an overview, historical background, chronology, bibliography and a debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
Opposing Viewpoints
This database covers timely issues, from capital punishment to drug legalization.