Introduction + Featured Reference Works
Use this guide to complete your research for Dr. Paces. For additional sources and search tips, see the History libguide. Schedule a research consultation with me (librarian) by clicking the Schedule Research Consultation button below.
A good place to begin any research project is with a reference book (see a few examples below). Use reference books to track down background information; choose and/or refine your research topic; identify disciplinary terms, an important consideration in "keyword" searches of databases such as JSTOR; and quickly locate autobiographies and other forms of life writing as well as high-impact secondary histories.
Bio-bibliography:
Great Stories of World War II: An Annotated Bibliography of Eyewitness War-Related Books Written and Published Between 1940 and 1946 by Call Number: D811.A2 C59 2007ISBN: 9780810850491Publication Date: 2007-03-01"These eyewitness accounts - written by war correspondents, service men and women, homefront civilians, and defense workers - were a welcome change to the stark military dispatches printed in the daily press."
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Call Number: DA28 .O95 2004ISBN: 019861411XPublication Date: 2004-09-23Standard work for British biography. Find female life writers including those who wrote about conflict and war.
Women Writers of the First World War: an Annotated Bibliography by Call Number: Internet Archive E-BOOKISBN: 1134946015Publication Date: 2002-01-22English authors only (e.g., Vera Brittain)
Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography by Call Number: HQ1185 .E63 2005ISBN: 0313327378Publication Date: 2005-08-30
Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present by Call Number: U24 .W69 2006ISBN: 1851097708Publication Date: 2006-05-19
Handbooks:
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9783110279818Publication Date: 2019-01-29
The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781138784291Publication Date: 2016-11-02
Methodology, Study and teaching:
Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9780429288432Publication Date: 2019-06-03
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Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 1350237612Publication Date: 2023-10-05
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