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Getting Started
As a Vanderbilt student you can:
- get help with your research assignments by using Ask a Librarian.
- borrow books and other items from any of the campus libraries (except Special Collections).
- return most items you check out to any library.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new windowLong-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars. Both foundational and cutting-edge topics are covered in order to develop, over time, an anchoring knowledge base for major areas of research.
Access to selected content only. Some articles may not be available. - Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowLiterary guide to significant sources on a variety of subjects. Works as an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
- American National Biography Online This link opens in a new windowBiographical essays profiling people from all periods of American history and culture. Bibliographic information, some illustrations, and online resources are included.
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new windowArticles primary source documents, images, maps, charts, tables, and government documents from five Oxford University Press encyclopedias and reference sources. Also includes The African American National Biography.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Guide (Miller Center, UVA)Under "Administration" link list all Cabinet members with brief biographical informatoin.
Franklin Delano RooseveltCall Number: Central Library Stacks; E807 .M37 2002ISBN: 1568027028Collection of FDR speeches and list of cabinet members and other notable figures in FDR administration.
Life and Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: An Annotated BibliographyCall Number: Central Library Stacks; E807 .H46 20053 volume set
The Presidency A to ZIncludes FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt biographies, and history of Presidential Cabinets.
A New Deal for Blacks: the emergence of civil rights as a national issueCall Number: Central Library Stacks E185.61 .S546
Great Exception: THE NEW DEAL & THE LIMITS OF AMERICAN POLITICSCall Number: Central Library Stacks and 418A E806 .C68 2017EBOOK AVAILABLE- Grapes of WrathCall Number: Central Library Stacks; PZ3 .S8195 Gr
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Journal articles, book titles, book reviews, and dissertations.
- Gale Literature: Book Review Index This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive guide to book reviews: cites or links to full-text reviews.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index of academic historical journals on the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, etc.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowLarge and important archive for academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Many journals do not have current issues.
- ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Search all ProQuest databases simultaneously. Includes arts, humanities, social sciences, news, and science and technology.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
Index of articles from magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Christian Century, Commonweal, Foreign Affairs, Fortnightly Review (London), Good Housekeeping, Harper's, Ladies Home Journal, Literary Digest, The Nation, New Republic, Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Review, Scribner's, and Women's Home Companion.
Central Library Floor Plans
- Central Library Floor PlansLink gives floor plan to Central Library building, which includes the Divinity Library and Special Collections. Books by call number, study rooms, and other library services and noted.
