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HIST 4006: Race and Ethnicity in American Sport History

Using Library Search to Find Books

Use the Library Search Advanced Search feature to find books on your paper topic.  You can find both primary documents and secondary sources through the catalog.  Just follow the suggestions in the search tips.

When looking for books by topic, enter your keyword(s) into the search boxes. Break up your topic using different keywords, putting them on separate lines.

Search Tips:

  • If you are using a phrase in your search, be sure and put it in quotation marks, e.g., "african americans"
  • Use the asterisk  *  as a wild card to pick up variant endings of words, e.g., ethnic* will retrieve ethnic, ethnicity, ethnicities, etc.
  • To find primary documents, use one of the boxes in the Advanced Library Search to include keywords such as: sources OR letters OR diaries OR "personal narratives" OR "oral history" OR correspondence OR speeches.
  • Be sure and do an author search in Advanced Library Search to see if the person/people that are prominent in the topic you are researching authored any materials.  Books written by people who participated in an event are considered primary documents.

Key Books

Sports in Chicago

Encyclopedia of Chicago

If you are interested in sports in the Chicago area, be sure to take a look at the Encyclopedia of Chicago, accessible on its website or a print copy available in Waldo Library.

Explore the World of Information Beyond WMU

Use MelCat and WorldCat to identify pertinent resources "out there" that are not owned by the WMU Libraries.  You can request items directly through MelCat and through Interlibrary Loan from WorldCat. We will borrow the book(s) from another library and the service is FREE to you.