HIST 302 Environmental History in the Modern US -- Professor Kleiman: Library Session February 9th, 2021

Use Worldcat and SUNY Search to find one primary and one secondary source on any of the following topics. (Remember, these might be useful search words when looking for primary sources: narratives, memoirs, diaries, interviews, oral histories, sources, documents, autobiographies.)

• Agent Orange
• San Francisco's water supply problems (late 19th and early 20th century)
• 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill
• Agri-business/factory farming
• Protests against nuclear energy and weapons
• Three Mile Island accident
• Fracking
• Labeling of organic foods

Use this GoogleDoc to record what you find today.

Use the linked tools to find articles on the same topic that you looked for in WorldCat.

• Use Google Newspaper Archive to find articles published in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s about Agent Orange.
• Use the 19th Century US Newspapers Digital Archive to find articles about San Francisco's problems with water supply.
• Using the New York Times Article Archive, find articles from 1969 and early 1970s about the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill.
• Using Readers' Guide Retrospective, find magazine articles published in the early 20^th century about the rise of agri-business/factory farming.
• Use Alternative Press Index Archive to find articles from the 1970s on the protests against the use and testing of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.
• Using Readers' Guide Retrospective, find magazine articles published in the late 19^th and early 20^th century about national parks.
• Use Google Newspaper Archive to find articles about the Three Mile Island power plant accident.
• Use Academic Search Complete to find articles from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s about the relationship between fracking and earthquakes.
• Using the New York Times Article Archive, find articles from the 1970s about the labeling of organic foods.

Use the same GoogleDoc you used earlier to record the articles you find.

Zotero is citation management software that is free online, although you will have limited storage with the free version. It can do the following:

• Create citations and bibliographies for you
• Organize your sources and tag them for easy searching
• Share sources between people in groups for easier group work

Citation mangers are useful for major papers and projects where you will be dealing with a lot of sources, and can streamline your workflow once you learn to use them.