Honors Seminar - Dr. Elizabeth Furdell
Past Imperfect

Table of Contents

Dr. Furdell's Webpage

Basic Sources

Citing Sources

Film Review Information

Books in the Reference Collection (2nd floor)

Electronic Books

More Research Guides

Basic Sources

• UNF Library Catalog - find books, videos, government documents, etc. in the UNF library.
• netLibrary -- digital copies of over 45,000 print books - many history books - FAQs | sign-up information.
• History research databases -- Find articles in journals and magazines -- login to access from off campus. More login information.

Citing Sources

• Use RefWorks to automatically format your bibliography for you. Here are a couple of guides. UNF RefWorks Import Table. The RefWorks tutorial is excellent and fun.

A copy of the Chicago Manual of Style is kept at the Reference Desk at all times, as well as other style manuals.

Film Reviews

Here is a guide to help you find film reviews.

Here is a list of subject headings (for the online catalog) you can use to find books in the UNF Library (or any library using the Library of Congress Classification). (Public libraries typically use the Dewey Decimal System)

• Historical films
• Great Britain
• Great Britain--history
• Great Britain--biography
• Motion pictures--Great Britain

Books in the Reference Collection (2nd floor).

British History

• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England -- DA152 .B58 1999
• Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714 - 1837 -- DA480 .B75 1997
• Encyclopedia of Britain -- DA1 .E52 1999
• Dictionary of National Biography -- DA28 .D46
• Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World -- DA357 .W34 1999
• Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689 -- DA375 .H57 1996
• Medieval England: An Encyclopedia -- DA129 .M43 1998
• Oxford Companion to Military History -- D25 .A2 094 2001
• New Arthurian Encyclopedia -- DA152.5 .A7 N48 1996
• Plantagenet Encyclopedia -- DA225 .P54 1990
• Tudor England: An Encyclopedia -- DA315 .T753 2001
• Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia -- DA550 .V53 1988

Film Resources

• Biography Book: A Reader's Guide to Nonfiction, Fictional, and Film Biographies of More Than 500 of the Most Fascinating Individuals of All Time -- CT104 .B87 2001
• Encyclopedia of Novels into Film -- PN1997.85 .T54 1998
• Epic Films: Cast, Credits, and Commentary on Over 250 Historical Spectacle Movies -- PN1995.9 .H5 S55 1991
• Film Encyclopedia -- PN1997.8 A76 2001
• Great War Films: From The Birth of a Nation to Today -- PN1995.9 .W3 Q57 1994
• The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Asian Films about Medieval Europe -- PN1995.9 .M52 H37 1999
• Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey -- PN1998.2 .W48 1996
• Oxford Companion to British History -- DA34 .O93 1997

Electronic Books

• netLibrary
• FAQs
• Signup information

Research Databases -- Articles in newspapers, magazines and journals

• History Databases
• General Databases

Internet Links

• History Resources -- UNF guide
• Librarians' Index to the Internet -- History--Great Britain
• Internet Movie Database - film information and reviews
• Rotten Tomatoes.com -- reviews
• Evaluating Internet Resources
• Guide to Search Engines

Research Guides

• Evaluating Electronic Resources.
• Evaluating Internet Resources.
• Finding Primary Sources in the UNF Library using the online catalog.
• History Research Links.
• History Internet Resources. -- Internet primary source links
• How to Find Book Reviews.
• How to Find Both Sides of the Story.
• How to Find Movie Reviews.
• What is a Refereed/peer-reviewed Article?
• What is an Academic/Scholarly Journal?

Problems? Frustrated? Need help? My number is 620-2616 or 620-1532.
Email btuck@unf.edu