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Using Secondary Sources to find Primary Sources
- Secondary sources will:
- Provide an overview of your topic
- Outline the basic historical context
- Help identify significant participants, dates and publications
- Use the UW Libraries Catalog to find secondary sources, such as the following, that will help you to identify primary sources for your topic:
- Encyclopedias
- Bibliographies
- Chronologies
- Biographical Dictionaries
- Books
- Journal and Newspaper Articles
- Examples of secondary sources for the history of labor in the Pacific Northwest
- An Historical bibliography of Washington state labor and laboring classes
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations pamphlets, 1889-1955 : a bibliography and subject index to the pamphlets held in the AFL-CIO Library
- American women and the labor movement, 1825-1974 : an annotated bibliography
- Biographical dictionary of American labor leaders
- Labor papers on microfilm; a combined list
- Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room - Unsettling Events
- Labor pains, gains
- Strike! Labor unites for rights
Finding Newspaper Articles
- Microform & Newspaper Collections
- The UW Libraries Catalog provides access to many, but not all of the items held in Micnews. The Collections' card catalog contains unique finding aids for newspapers, including a chronological list and a place of publication file, as well as main entries for some of the materials held here.
- Newspapers that might contain articles about labor history in the Pacific Northwest
- East Side Journal
- Industrial Worker
- New York Times
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Seattle Times
- Seattle Union Record
- Tacoma Daily Ledger
- Newspaper Indexes
- To see if the UW Libraries has an index to a particular newspaper, use the Searchable Guide to Newspaper Indexes.
- 20th Century Kirkland From Shingle Mills to Suburbia : Index of the East Side Journal 1918 - 1975
Eastside Journal Index- Historical Index to the New York Times 1851 - 1923
- New York Times Print Index September 1851+
- Library Association of Portland Newspaper Index 1851 - 1984
- Oregonian Print Index
- Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper Periodical Index
- Websites
- Seattle General Strike Project
- STRIKES! Labor and Labor History in the Puget Sound
- Industrial Workers of the World - The Everett Massacre at Western Washington University Bibliography and Related Sources
- Pacific Northwest Ethnic & Special Audience Newspapers
Finding Journal Articles
- Journal Indexes
- Index to Early American Periodicals 1700 - 1935
- Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
- Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index
- Websites
- Industrial Workers of the World - The Everett Massacre at Western Washington University Bibliography and Related Sources
Finding Films and Audio Recordings
- Films
- Magill's American Film Guide - Lists in alphabetical order brief analyses of 1000 major American films.
- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
- Internet Movie Database
- All Movie Guide
- Labor and Labor History Videography
Example: Good Work, Sister: Women Shipyard Workers of World War II, An Oral History.
Women tell of their personal experiences in the shipyards at Portland, Or. and Vancouver, Wash., and the difficulties confronting them when they took over jobs during World War II which had traditionally been considered men's work in addition to their continuing responsibility for child-raising and housework. 20 min.- Labor-Related Films in the Library of Congress Collection
- Audio Recordings
- American Memory American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918 - 1920
Subject: Labor movement -- 1914 -- United States- Industrial Workers of the World International Radio Network
- The Mudcat Cafe : A magazine dedicated to the blues and folk music
Example:Thirty Cents a Day!- Kingwood College Library : A Chronological Subject Guide to American Popular Music 1900 to 1950
Primary Sources on the Web
- Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections - The American Radicalism Collection
- Ad* Access Project
- American Cultural History - The Twentieth Century
- American Memory Project
- American Studies Web
- UW Libraries Gateway Subject Pages (look for Communications, Cinema Studies, History and other subject pages)
Conclusions
- The information presented in mass media provides a narration of events that have happened. While we must be careful not to assume that all of the information that we find in mass media primary sources is authoritative, we can interpret the life and interests of communities, of nations, of time periods, as these are revealed through the words, columns and pages of popular media.
- Media content is a culture's literature.
The media content offers insight into a culture's view of itself.- Media content depicts cultural values.
Reading stories from the past offers insight into a culture's values of patriotism, racism, sexism, freedom, love and much more.- Meaning is often created while reading stories of the past.
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Last Updated 4 July 2000
