Research Guides: HIST 4399: Asian American History: Other Useful Tools

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Helpful Websites

Immigrant Profiles & Demographics
This website is meant to help you learn more about the role immigration plays in society today.
Asian Americans - Pew Research Center
Fact Sheets and other publications concerning Asian Americans.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
A link discussing the AANHPI's growth in the South and other publications.

Online Archives, Websites, and Resources

This box contains links to LibGuides from other libraries. They direct you to digital archives, primary sources, and repositories. However, you will not be able to access everything from these guides. There will be a number of resources unavailable to you because they are specific to the respective university. You will be able to use resources from these guides that are free on the internet or that the university has made accessible to the public. You can also use ILL (Interlibrary Loan) to request an item that you find in the guides, but do not have access to. We can work to provide access through other avenues.

Click on the different tabs available within the guides to explore what may be useful for your research.

Digital Archives & Oral History Collections: Primary Sources
This guide from the University of California Berkley Library has multiple links to websites with primary sources and secondary sources.
Primary Sources - Asian American Studies
This guide with Michigan State University Library lists resources including Primary source materials that can aid research and can be found online or possibly even searched for in our library or requested through our library ILL department.
Repositories - Asian American Studies
This guide from Princeton University Library has links to multiple societies, museums, and other websites concerning Asian Americans.

Film: "Pilgrimage"

Useful Tools

Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window Provides online access to both the 16th and 15th editions of the Chicago Manual of Style, plus Style Q&A, a quick-guide of Chicago citation examples, and a variety of helpful citing tools.

SHSU Writing Center Handouts
Many handouts on structuring your essays, editing your writing, and citing your sources.

EndNote Web This link opens in a new window
Web-based tool for keeping track of all your sources (export them from many databases). Create formatted citations and bibliographies in just a few clicks.
Introduction / instructions for SHSU users.
Create an account off-campus with PC.
EndNote Web is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. EndNote Web is a free version of EndNote.

3 Tip in 3 Minutes: History Research Video Series
These short video tutorials, created by the SHSU History Librarian, will teach you tricks to become more efficient and effective in your History research.
Careers, Grad Studies, and Opportunities in History
Are you planning graduate work or a career in History? Take a look at this guide for information on grad schools, awards, job listings, and MORE!

HIST 4399: Asian American History

Contact Your Librarian

Helpful Websites

Online Archives, Websites, and Resources

Film: "Pilgrimage"

Useful Tools

Film: "Chinatown Files"

Film: "The Chinese Exclusion Act"