LibGuides: Oklahoma Environmental History: Secondary Sources

Secondary Sources

Secondary sources are materials written by historians using primary sources (such as government reports, newspaper articles, memoirs, etc.) Examples of secondary sources include:

books
journal articles
encyclopedia articles

See the boxes below for resources to help you find different types of secondary sources.

TIP: Because historians cite their primary sources, look at the bibliographies in their books and articles to locate sources for your own paper!

Books and More

Library Catalog
Materials owned by the University of Oklahoma libraries.
Worldcat
Materials held by libraries around the world. You may borrow (interlibrary loan) materials through the Worldcat database. Interlibrary loan is free! But give yourself time for a book to come through the mail.
Dissertation Abstracts (aka ProQuest Dissertations & Theses)
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References to U.S. doctoral dissertations completed at accredited institutions since 1861 (abstracts since 1980) and dissertations and theses, most with abstracts, from the U.K. and Ireland since 1716. Many dissertations 1997 to 2010s, are full text.
PLEASE NOTE: Many universities have started archiving dissertations locally rather than through this database. Try a Google search on the topic or author to see if you can locate the dissertation.
Find most OU dissertations full text through summer 2013; after that date, find OU dissertations in SHAREOK.
Forest History Society Bibliography
Books, articles, and more.

Journal Articles

America: History and Life
Database covering the U.S. and Canada, prehistory to the present. Indexes the scholarly journal Great Plains Quarterly, which is only available in paper at the Western History Collections, call number F 591 .G762.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA)
Database covering Native North American history, life, and culture.
Chronicles of Oklahoma
Journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Volumes 1-40 (1923-1962) are available full-text online as PDFs and are searchable. Other volumes are only available in paper. See Bizzell Memorial Library, first floor, call number: F 691 .C55. To search the journal try this link and combine with your keywords.
Environmental History
A scholarly journal. Coverage is 1996-present.
Environmental History Review
A scholarly journal; the predecessor to Environmental History. 1990-1995
GreenFILE
Database to search for scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, related to the the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.
JSTOR
Database covering all subject areas. Includes the journal Environmental History to 2013.
Western Historical Quarterly
A scholarly journal. Coverage is 1970-present.

Encyclopedias

Do NOT use encyclopedias as your only source. DO use encyclopedias as a starting point for background information and sources for further reading.

Encyclopedia of American Environmental History
An encyclopedia only available in paper in Bizzell Memorial Library's reference collection at call number GE 150 .E53 2011. Edited by Professor Brosnan, this work includes more than 750 articles covering every significant issue, event, law, and figure in U.S. environmental history.
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society
Includes more than 1,000 entries on "key individuals, polices, problems, processes, and theoretical concepts that sit astride what has traditionally been known as 'society' and the 'environment.'” (-introduction)
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
From the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Oklahoma Environmental History

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Additional Information

Secondary Sources

Books and More

Journal Articles

Encyclopedias