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This Guide is intended to help you find library materials on a "Defender of Justice" who works for racial justice in America. If you need further assistance please ask a reference librarian.
Find a book
Use Maxwell Library's Online Catalog to search for a book by, or about, a person. If you search by author or subject enter the person's last name first (e.g. Mapplethorpe, Robert). You can also search by Keyword (All fields). Word order does not matter in this case. Also try searching "Photographers - Biography" as a subject to find books that have a collection of biographies.
Find Videos and FIlms
Use the Library Catalog to find videos and DVDs that are available at the Maxwell Library. You may also wish to search the databases Films on Demand
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowIncludes approximately 26,000 video titles and more than 250,000 video segments covering a broad range of subject areas including humanities, social sciences, business, economics, science, mathematics, health, and medicine.
Additional Information
Online Databases
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowFull text articles from more than 250 periodicals covering many topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, film and architecture. Indexing and abstracts for more than 680 periodicals and more than 14,000 at dissertations. Indexing of more than 220,000 art reproductions.
*** Limited to 1 user at a time. - ARTstor This link opens in a new windowOver one million digital images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and social sciences for use in research and teaching. Includes contributions from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Included with each image is descriptive information such as title, creator, date, size, and current location.
- Biography in Context This link opens in a new windowMore than 650,000 biographical articles of international figures from every time period and area of study. Content is searchable across more than 170 titles, videos, audio selections, images, and articles.
- Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new windowMore than 430,000 full-text biographies and more than 9,000 biographies from American National Biography. Complete collections of Biography Today and Biography.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowIncludes approximately 26,000 video titles and more than 250,000 video segments covering a broad range of subject areas including humanities, social sciences, business, economics, science, mathematics, health, and medicine.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowFull text for more than 540 journals and 140 books, indexing of historical articles from more than 2,300 journals in over 40 languages, and searchable cited references for more than 500 journals. Coverage dates back to 1953, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century. Subjects include world history, military history, women’s history, history of education and more.
- Historical New York Times (ProQuest News & Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowProvides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time, covering 1851-2013.
- Journals/Newspapers A-ZUse this database to find out if Maxwell Library subscribes to a particular journal.
Google Scholar
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowA freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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