IDS 101 Standing at the Crossroads of the Mississippi Delta
Karen Holman, Professor

1. General and Specialized Databases

Oxford Reference Online: 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. Includes The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, Dictionary of Political Biography, etc.

Academic Search Premier: Provides full text for more than 3,600 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.

LexisNexis Academic: Provides access to full-text information from newspapers, journals, magazines and reference sources with strengths in the areas of current news, business, law, and politics.

America History and Life: Provides access to scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present

The Music Index: Indexes over 640 international music periodicals offering a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data. Includes links to full-text articles in JSTOR database.

Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. (Full-text)

Grove Music : New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is a monumental work of 29 volumes and the definitive music reference source. The online version is GROVE MUSIC.

2. Internet Resources

FLOOD OF 1927 & Hurricane Katrina:

American Experience: Fatal Flood
Mississippi River Flood of 1927
(Includes Short silent film of the Mississippi flood of 1927)
LOUISiana Digital Library
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Hurricane Katrina Base Map

New York Times Map "Draining New Orleans"
When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts

BLUES:

The Blues Archive
The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
The Year of the Blues

The Robert Johnson Notebooks at the University of Virginia
The Blues Highway


3. Willamette Resources and Local Events

Mark O. Hatfield Library Homepage

Willamette University Libraries Catalog

How to Evaluate Resources

ArtStor
: Provides a broad and deep general collection of images.

The Ty Curtis Band
September, 30 2007, 5 pm. at Leftys
1230 State Street, Salem, Oregon

Cascade Blues Association

Image of Creole Style Home on the Swamp Tour by Carolyn Keeney of Pics4Learning
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