Rutgers University Libraries Media and American War Experience, 1898-

The Basics

Restricted Access

Many of the resources listed in the sections below are marked Restricted Access. You should have no problem connecting to these from any networked computer on campus. However, in order to use these from off-campus, you must log in with your Rutgers NetID. For instructions see the Libraries' Remote Access to Library Resources.

Off-Campus Links

Once you have gone to a Rutgers Libraries page and logged in with your NetID [your pegasus username and password] you can use the "Off-Campus Link" provided for each Rutgers-restricted resource below to connect to that database or article. Use the link embedded in the citation to access these resources on campus.

E-Reserves

To get to readings that your instructor may have placed on Reserve in the Library, click here. Once you get to the Lookup box, the easiest way to get to the right list is to search by the Instructor's name.

IRIS: Find Books

IRIS is the online catalog for all the Rutgers University Libraries except the Newark and Camden Law Libraries. Use IRIS to find out if the Rutgers Libraries have the specific books or journals that you need, or to locate books on topics that you're researching. Show Me How

Getting Books From Other Rutgers Libraries

If a book that you need is not available (not owned/checked out) at the Dana Library, but is available from another Rutgers Library, you can request delivery of that book to Dana by bringing up the record for the book in IRIS and clicking on tbe Deliver/Recall button. Show Me

Book Not Available/Not Owned by the Rutgers Libraries?

The fastest way to get a copy of a book that is not owned or not available (checked out/on Reserve/missing etc.) at the Rutgers Libraries is to request it through E-Z Borrow. E-Z Borrow books are normally received within about five working days. Tell Me More

If a book is not owned by the Rutgers Libraries and is not available via E-Z Borrow, you can place an Interlibrary Loan request. Tell Me More

Becoming an 'Expert' User

Want to maximize your use of Library resources? Check out Searchpath, the Libraries' interactive tutorial.

Citing Your Sources

You will most likely be using Chicago/Turabian style when citing the sources that you use in your research papers. The Chicago Manual of Style and Turabian's Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations are both available at the Dana Library Reference Desk. The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison also has a nice introduction to Chicago/Turabian Documentation that will give you the basic information you need to create bibliographic citations.

The above site does not, however, cover citing online resources. The Library of Congress has a guide on How to Cite Electronic Sources that show Turabian-style examples; the Bedford/St. Martin's site also offers useful information on Using Chicago Style to Cite and Document Sources

You can also import references from IRIS and many of the electronic databases into RefWorks, a web-based bibliography and database manager. RefWorks will build your bibliography for you based on whatever style sheet you specify (MLA, Chicago, etc.). For information on setting up your (free) RefWorks account see the RefWorks FAQ.

Not sure when you need to cite something? Check out the Plagiarism Guide

Remember that plagerism is a violation of the Rutgers University Policy on Academic Integrity for Undergraduate and Graduate Students and could result in your dismissal from the University!

Finding Books: Library Catalogs

IRIS
The online catalog for the Rutgers University Libraries.
Newark Law
Camden Law
Rutgers Law library materials are not listed in IRIS. Use the same subject headings to find relevant publications in the law collections.
The Center for Research Libraries
CRL is consortium of North American university and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, foreign dissertations, archives, and other expensive or hard to find materials. As Rutgers is a CRL member, these materials are considered part of Rutgers' collections and can be borrowed via Interlibrary Loan. The collection includes over 10,000 newspaper titles.

Finding Scholarly Articles

Communication Indexes

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Full-text coverage of more than 280 titles plus citation coverage for many more. Many major journals searchable back to early 1900s.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

History Indexes

America: History and Life
1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.
Periodicals Index Online/Archive Online
Multidisciplinary index to over 5000 journals. Scope ranges from 1770 to 1995.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
1975- Index to over 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields.
Off-Campus Link Rutgers-restricted Access
Public Affairs Information Service
1915- Index to books, reports, government documents, and journals dealing with political, social, and public policy issues.
Off-Campus Link Rutgers-restricted Access

Military Affairs

Index to Military Periodicals
1988- Index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

Can't resist the urge to Google?
Google Scholar
Use the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports.

Finding Newspaper Articles

For links to many newspaper sites with online searchable archives, as well as to physical collections of newspapers see the Newspapers Research Guide.

Historical Accounts
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
The full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations etc., from American popular and literary magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900. Search by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
Historical New York Times
Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851. The two+ most recent years are not included, use Access World News.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.
Historical Washington Post
Search and display the full image of articles published in the Washington Post between 1877 and 1993.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Full-text database of 500 newspapers published between 1800 and 1900.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922.
Stars and Stripes Newspaper Archive
Searchable (keyword and date) database of editions of Stars and Stripes "The Independent News Source for the U.S. Military Community." from 1948 through 1999. Not a free database, but you can subscribe for a month for $7.95. The collection is also available on microfilm in the Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library.

Contemporary Accounts
Access World News
Access to the full text of over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
Stars and Stripes
The daily online edition of "The Independent News Source for the U.S. Military Community."

Ethnic Newspapers

Ethnic newspapers are a valuable source of information on the lives and concerns of immigrant and ethnic groups. You can search for ethnic newspapers held by the Rutgers Libraries in IRIS, our online catalog. As your search terms, use the name of the group in which you are interested followed by the word "newspapers;" search this as a SUBJECT Keyword.

      For Example: germans newspapers OR east indians newspapers

Ethnic NewsWatch
A full-text collection of over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic (including Arab and Middle Eastern, Asian-American, European, and Jewish), minority, and native press. Complete articles dating back to 1960, in English and Spanish.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

The Popular Press
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective. 1900- .
Index to the major general interest and popular periodicals from the late 19th century to 1982.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
Readers' Guide Full Text
Index to the major general interest and popular periodicals from 1983 to the presnet.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

Television and Radio
TV-NewsSearch: The Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Index to material in the collection of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.The database includes nightly news programs broadcast by the national television networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and a daily news program from CNN.Abstracts of each story within a regular news program are fully searchable. Regular programs in the collection include:

  • ABC Evening News: August 5, 1968 - Present
  • CBS Evening News: August 5, 1968 - Present
  • NBC Evening News: August 5, 1968 - Present
  • CNN WorldView: October 2, 1995 - November 3, 2000
  • CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports: February 1, 2001 - December 31, 2001
  • CNN NewsNight: November 5, 2001 - Present
  • ABC Nightline: March 24, 1980 - September 12, 1988 Occasional Coverage
  • ABC Nightline: September 12, 1988 - present: Comprehensive Coverage

The Archive's collection also includes news coverage of significant events broadcast outside the scope of the regular evening news programs. Some of the major items in the collection of Special Reports include:

  • Coverage of the American hostage crisis in Iran
  • Coverage of the Persian Gulf War
  • Coverage of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001
  • Coverage of the War in Afghanistan
  • Coverage of the War in Iraq

For a fee, the Archive will make copies and lend individuals DVDs of specific broadcasts. You can place an Interlibrary Loan Request for a program. However the Rutgers Libraries will only pay for the first $20 of the fee; the requestor would be responsible for the remaining amount.

Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
Paley Center for Media Database
The Paley Center (New York City) houses a media collection of nearly 150,000 television and radio programs and advertisements. The database includes synopsis of programs. The Edward John Noble Scholars Room has carrels equipped with an audio/visual monitor for viewing and listening to the Paley Center's collection of programs and computers that access the library's database. Use of the Scholars Room is available to students and others affiliated with educational organizations at a rate of $15 per day; The Scholar's Room is open: Wednesdays to Sundays 12:00 to 6:00 pm, and 12:00 to 8:00 pm on Thursdays.

Using Films?
MLA International Bibliography
1926- . The most comprehensive index to journal articles, books, dissertations, and other materials relating to literature, folkore, and film studes. Indexes more than 4400 journals.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
Film Literature Index
Index to scholarly and popular film and television periodicals worldwide from 1976 to 2001. Search or browse citations.

Finding Early Film Reviews
  • Film Review Index. 2 vols
    • Patricia King Hanson & Stephen L. Hanson, editors. Phoenix, Ariz., Oryx Press, 1986-
    Dana Call Number: Ref. PN1995 .F513 1986

    One of the best sources for finding early film reviews, the Film Review Index cites reviews to over 7000 feature films released between 1914 and 1985. Vol. 1: 1882-1949; Vol. 2: 1950-1985. In addition to popular magazines, the index also lists reviews in trade publications, newspapers, anthologies, and selected books.

    Once you have the list of sources in which a specific film was reviewed, you will need to go to IRIS, the Rutgers Libraries online catalog, to find out if that source is available at Rutgers. Select Periodical Title Begins with when searching with the journal name or Title Begins with when searching for a book.
  • Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective. 1900- .
    • Index to the major general interest and popular periodicals from the late 19th century to 1982.
    An excellent source for finding film reviews.

    Finding Films

    Want to know if the Rutgers Libraries own a particular film?

    Select Advanced Search in IRIS, the Libraries' online catalog. Enter the title into the "TITLE" search box, and select Visual Materials from the format pull-down menu.
    Videos/DVDs owned by the Dana Library are available for viewing in the Media Center on the 4th floor of Dana Library.
    Videos that are only available from the Media Center in New Brunswick must be booked BY FACULTY for class viewing. All other users must view materials on-site at the Media Center on the Livingston Campus. Advance reservations for viewing rooms are recommended. Undergraduate students may make reservations no earlier than 24 hours in advance. To make a reservation, call 445-4980 (x155).

    Photos, Ads and Other Images
    The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
    "This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role."
    Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War: Headline Gallery
    Headlines from New York newspapers. From the PBS presentation.
    Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War: Cartoon Gallery
    Cartoons from the Spanish-American War era. From the PBS presentation
    Photos of the Great War: World War I Image Archive
    Pictures of World War II
    Selection of photographs from the holdings of the Still Picture Branch (NNSP) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
    War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945.
    Almost 7000 photographs from the agency created to assume jurisdiction over the Japanese and Japanese Americans evacuated from California, Oregon, and Washington. Part of the Online Archive of California.
    Ad*Access
    Search or browse over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covers five main subject areas, one of them being World War II. A project of the Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
    Korean War Photo-Documentary
    The Korean War-Photographs
    Primarily photographs shot by U.S. Army photographers. Frpm the collections of the Truman Library.
    The Vietnam War
    Primarily photographs by British photographer Tim Page, who covered the war in the 1960s.
    Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
    Over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the U.S. From collections in the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University. Site also includes an advertising history timeline

    World War 1
    Stars and Stripes
    Paris, France edition. February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919.
    Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures
    "The collection includes an illustrated history of World War I selected from newspaper rotogravure sections that graphically documents the people, places, and events important to the war." From the Library of Congress American Memory project.

    World War II
    Hamilton, Alice. "Sound and Fury in Germany," Survey Graphic November 1933.
    Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
    Online exhibit from the National Archives
    World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music & Art
    Very useful collection of links.
    Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry
    Washington, D.C., Office of War Information. Bureau of Motion Pictures, 1942.
    Days of Infamy December 7 and 9/11: Getting the News
    Audio of reactions and reports made immediately after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and after the September 11th attacks.
    Popular Newspapers During World War II
    Microfilm edition of five British newspapers reproduced in their entirety for the period 1939 to 1945. Covers: Daily Express (London); Daily Mirror (London); News of the World (London); People (London); and the Sunday Express (London). Chronological arrangement; (ALEXANDER M/Film 2717)Guide(ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF PN 5118 .P66 guide)
    Soldiers of the Press
    A war drama "created in New York and syndicated by World Broadcasting System...Each episode is 15 minutes long and retold a recent news story from action during World War II. The series was narrated by United Press correspondents including Walter Cronkike, Harrison Salisbury, and many lesser knowns such as Ralph Teasdale and Ann Stringer. The show was broadcast on WOR from 28 Feb 1943 until 5 Aug 1945 on Sundays at 12:30pm."

    Korean War
    Kenneth Banghart and the News
    Radio scripts for the NBC radio broadcast from September 3, 1951 to February 29, 1952.

    Vietnam

     Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:
    Walter Cronkite: Changing Attitudes Toward War in Vietnam
    In an August 7, 2002 NPR broadcast, Cronkite recalls the gradual change in journalistic approach, and the public attitude, toward the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
    David Halberstam's Reporting from Vietnam
    Selected New York Times articles. David Halberstam shared the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his coverage of the Vietnam War.
    Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975
    New York, Library of America, 2000.
    Dana Call Number: DS559.46.R46 2000
    Vietnam on Television
    David Hallin. Overview with bibliography. From the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
    Media and the Vietnam War: A Bibliography.
    From the Sixties Project.
    Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History
    Spencer C. Tucker, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-CLIO, 1998.
    More than 900 signed entries, most with brief bibliographies. Considers all aspects of the war in historical context, including Vietnam-related literature and film. Extensive collection of historical documents (1920-1995).
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
    Martin Luther King Jr.: "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam"
    Speech delivered at New York City's Riverside Church on April 4th 1967.

    Vietnam in Literature and the Arts

    Wittman, Sandra M. Writing about Vietnam : A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict Boston, MA : G.K. Hall, 1989.
    Annotated list of literary works (novels, personnal narratives, anthologies, poetry, short stories), as well as criticism and other secondary sources, relating to the Vietnam War.
    Dana Call Number: Ref. DS557.7 .W58 1989

    REMF Bibliography: A Bibliography of Vietnam War Literature.
    Compiled by David A. Willson, with Nancy Kendall. Extensive listing of everything from comics and children's literature to screenplays to pornography.

    September 11 and the War on Terror

    Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:

    September 11 Web Archive
    Results of a project to archive daily nearly 30,000 web sites beginning only hours after the attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001 and continuing until December 1, 2001. An attempt to preserve the Web expressions of individual people, groups, the press and institutions from around the world in the aftermath of the attacks. About 2500 of these sites have now been cataloged and are available. A fascinating site. A joint project of the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and WebArchivist.org.
    Strategic Communications and the Battle o9f Ideas: Winning the Hearts and Minds in the Global War Against Terrorists
    Hearing Before the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services. U.S. House of Representatives. July 11, 2007.
    The Role of the American Media
    Hearing before the Select Committee on Homeland Security. U.S. House of Representative. September 15, 2004.
    Days of Infamy December 7 and 9/11: Getting the News
    Audio of reactions and reports made immediately after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and after the September 11th attacks.

    Finding Archival Collections
    ArchiveGrid
    Index to archival collection descriptions and finding aids.
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
    Corrections?
    Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
    John Cotton Dana Library
    February 1, 2010