LibGuides: COM 425: Rhetoric and Public Memory (VanderHaagen)

Mob Museum Article

How the Mob (Museum) Was Won: Building a History of Organized Crime in the U.S.

Communication/Rhetoric Databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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1900-
Journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies .
Update frequency: weekly
Communication & Mass Media Complete contains journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies. It merges CommSearch (formerly produced by the NCA, National Communication Association) and the Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides current issues and backfiles of in the fields of communication and mass media.
Communication and Media Studies This link opens in a new window
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1950-
Full text of 16 communications journals published by Sage.
This communication collection includes the full text of journals published by Sage and participating societies. It covers such subjects as journalism, public opinion, political communication, mass communication, interpersonal communication, cultural studies, intercultural communication, television & film studies, media studies, business communication, organizational & management communication, written communication, rhetoric, and literacy studies.

UNLV Libraries Quick Search
Articles, newspapers, ebooks, books, videos, and more.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.
Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
ComAbstracts This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field.
The ComAbstracts database index contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field. Produced by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship. Use the link labeled "Check your library for full text access" to retrieve complete articles when available online.

History

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles and books about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
Scope: U.S. and Canada only
Languages: Abstracts of articles in 40 different languages
This index includes almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Books, media reviews, and dissertations are also covered, and approximately 16,000 entries are added each year. The Get Text button links to online full text when available and offers access to UNLV print collections and document delivery options for books and articles not available online.
U.S. History (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
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1760-
Primary documents, encyclopedia entries, and journal articles about U.S. history.
A collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. It combines more than 1,000 primary documents with coverage found in more than a dozen reference sources, including Scribner's Dictionary of American History and the Dictionary of American Biography.
Women and Social Movements in the United States This link opens in a new window
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1600-2000
Books, images, historical documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies which document reform activities by and affecting women.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
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1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.
Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
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1950-1975
Primary sources documenting music and popular culture in the US and Britain, 1950-1975, including manuscripts, video, photos, underground magazines and more.
Part of Americana combined search portal
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
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1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.
Godey's Lady's Book This link opens in a new window
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1830-1880
American magazine with firsthand information on social, historical and cultural aspects of the 19th century.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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1890-1982
Index to articles in popular magazines before 1983.
Citations to articles in U. S. general-interest magazines, providing coverage of events prior to 1983. Covers nonfiction, fiction, poems, short stories, and reviews of books, dance, motion pictures, musicals, operas and operettas, radio and television programs, and theater.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Hathi Trust This link opens in a new window
Access to nearly any public domain (pre-1924) book owned and scanned by a library. UNLV users can login with their ACE accounts and download entire "full view" books/documents.

Speeches & Speechmakers

American Rhetoric
Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
Speeches & Speechmarkers Portal-University of Iowa
Vital Speeches of the Day
A monthly magazine that presents speeches and addresses in full (1934-present).
American Leaders, 1918-1920 (Library of Congress)
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
History Channel: Famous Speeches & Audio
Cornell University--The Making of America
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Historical Speeches
Contains transcripts of speeches on a wide array of political issues from former social activists.
Voices of Democracy
The Voices of Democracy project is designed to promote the study of great speeches & public debates.

Historic & Current Newspaper Databases

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new window
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1827-1902
African-American newspapers including The Colored American, all of Frederick Douglass’ newspapers, The Freedmen’s Record, and more.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
1789-1924
Historical newspapers from the Library of Congress, including Nevada newspapers.
Civil War 1860-1865: A Newspaper Perspective This link opens in a new window
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1860-1865
Newspaper reports of major events of the Civil War covered by both Union and Confederate sources.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Regional newspapers and broadcast television transcripts.
Newspaper Source provides full text coverage for 40 national and international newspapers including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. Selected full text is offered from more than 330 regional newspapers including The Buffalo News, Orange County Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Full text transcripts are available from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio, and more.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1800-1900
American newspapers including the New York Herald, Lynchburg Virginian, The Hawaiian Gazette, Rocky Mountain News, Southern Illustrated News (VA), Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), the Milwaukee Sentinel, and many more.

Complete List/Links of UNLV LIbraries Newspaper Databases & Resources

Public Memory Online Resources

American Memory--Library of Congress
American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials.
American Memory--Library of Congress--Updated/Migrated List of Links
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.
In the First Person
Search within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. Returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
Presidential Rhetoric at the American Presidency Project
An impressive collection of presidential rhetoric including: inaugural addresses, weekly Saturday radio addresses (from 1988 on), transcripts of news conferences; nomination acceptance speeches; transcripts of Presidential debates back, and more.

Art, Artifacts & More

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.

Flickr: Creative Commons

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Access is limited to 4-5 simultaneous users.
Art encyclopedia
Use this resource for information of the visual arts world, from prehistory to the present day. Full text articles, images and charts, and links to web material
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Art publications index with selected full text from 1997. Limited to 12 simultaneous users.
Art, architecture, photography, graphic design, landscape architecture, interior design, film, museology are all covered. Possible to limit searches to full text items only or peer-reviewed items only. Works of art found reproduced in periodicals are also indexed. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage of selected articles begins in 1997.
Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 This link opens in a new window
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Citations to articles and books on archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, landscape architecture, film, fine arts, folk arts, graphic arts, industrial design, and photography.
National Gallery of Art images This link opens in a new window
Images from the National Gallery of Art

American Broadsides and Ephemera This link opens in a new window
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1749-1900
Printed menus, advertisements, cards, playbills, poems and other printed items never intended to last.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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The basic index for architecture articles.
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, urban planning and historic preservation.

Examples of Memorials, Monuments, etc.

Some National Park Service (NPS) Resources

National Park Histories
List of online publications from the National Park Service with histories of each national park.
NPS index, 2009-2011
Summary of all national parks in one convenient PDF
National Park Service e-library
Historical publications from the National Park Service, available online
The National Parks. Part 1, The Scripture of Nature (1851-1890)
Part 2, The Last Refuge (1890-1915)
Part 3, The Empire of Grandeur (1915-1919)
Part 4, Going Home (1920-1933)
Part 5, Great Nature (1933-1945)
Part 6, The Morning of Creation (1946-1980)
National Record of Historic Places
NPS Focus
Searchable database of all listings on the National Register of Historic Places.

Nevada-Related Resources

Urban Affairs Librarian

Susie Skarl, Urban Affairs Librarian

Email Me

Contact:

UNLV Libraries
Lied Library
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Box 457014
Las Vegas, NV 89154-7014
susie.skarl@unlv.edu

702-895-2141

Subjects: Communication Studies, Couple & Family Therapy, Criminal Justice, Crisis & Emergency Management, Government Information, Journalism & Media Studies, Public Administration, Social Work, Urban Studies

Museums

ArchiveGrid
Finding aids/collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
OAIster
Searches digital collections mounted on university and museum web sites that may not be indexed by traditional search engines.
Smithsonian Institution Museum Studies Resources
American Alliance of Museums
Museumstuff.com
Worldwide guide to museums online.
American Association for State & Local History (AASLH).
The most comprehensive national organization dedicated to state and local history, and in that regard representing hundreds of small to large museums nation-wide. Site includes information on obtaining hundreds of technical leaflets and reports, workshop information, job postings, and more.
Finding Aids and Directories--UCSD Resource Guide
Museums USA
More than 15,000 museum listings & events.

Chicago Manual of Style Resources

Need Help Creating Videos?

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UNLV Libraries Multimedia Design Lab
The Lab features specialized hardware and software for all current UNLV students, faculty, and staff to use on their multimedia projects and presentations.
Lynda.com
As a member of the UNLV community, you have free and unlimited access to the vast Lynda.com training library. Includes information/training on creating videos & other projects.

COM 425: Rhetoric and Public Memory (VanderHaagen)