WR150: Rhetoric of Freedom in America

Subject Headings.
Reference Works.
Indexes and Databases.
Additional Links.

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:

african americans in literature
american fiction african american authors
civil rights movements united states history
civil rights movements united states history 20th century
democracy united states history
hurston zora neale
jefferson thomas 1743-1826
philosophy american
political culture united states history
rhetoric political aspects united states
rhetoric political aspects united states history
speeches addresses etc american
wright richard 1908-1960

You can also search by author in the online catalog. For example:

king martin luther jr 1929-1968

REFERENCE WORKS.

The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement. 1993.: Mugar E185.61 G895 1993 Storage: Use Request Form.
The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. 1982.: Mugar Ref. X E457 N48

African-American Writers: A Dictionary. 2000.: Mugar Ref X PS153 N5 A3444 2000
American Eloquence: Studies in American Political History: in Making of Modern Law 1800-1926 (BU-px)
Britannica Online. (BU-px)

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. (BU-px)

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature. (BU-px)

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. 5 vols. 2005.: Mugar Ref. X PS153 N5 G73 2005
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004.: Mugar Ref. X PS21 E537 2004

INDEXES AND DATABASES.

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 1920 - . (ChRiv-px): The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - . (BU-px).: Provides author, subject and citation access to the literature inthe humanities. Includes book reviews.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (BU-px): Comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Book Review Digest. 1905 - .: Cites and provides excerpts of reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Mugar Ref. X Z1219 F06.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974.: Contains citations to reviews of books and periodicals in the humanities that have appeared in scholarly journals between 1802 and 1974. Mugar AI3 C652 Storage: Use Request Form.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974.: Contains citations to reviews of books and periodicals in the social sciences that have appeared in scholarly journals between 1886 and 1974. Mugar Ref. X AI3 C654 1979
Communication & Mass Media Complete. (BU-px): Database covering journals in communications, mass media, and related fields.

Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography. (BU-px): Contemporary Authors provides a comprehensive collection of biographies of currently active authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select provides excerpts from critical works on most major twentieth century writers, grouped by individual titles within an author's body of work. Dictionary of Literary Biography contains detailed literary biographies of authors from a wide variety of genres, nationalities, and literary forms.
Humanities Full Text. 1983 - . (ChRiv-px).: Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the humanities. Includes full text of articles from nearly 250 journals as far back as 1995. For retrospective searching (1907-1984) use Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, which indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as early as 1907.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) (BU-px).: Full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to a few years ago) of scholarly journals, many of them in literature. Includes book reviews.

MLA International Bibliography. 1926 - . (BU-px): International index to journals, series, monographs, working papers, bibliographies and dissertations on modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Project Muse. (ChRiv-px): Full-text articles from many humanities journals. Includes book reviews.

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

Bibliographies in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

Classical Rhetoric: Recommended Sources

Selected Bibliography on Classical Rhetoric(s)

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

WR150 Research Guide

J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)