Library
Chicago Mayor Thompson standing behind his desk at City Hall, talking with railway employees
[DN-0064828, Chicago Daily News negatives collection,
Chicago Historical Society]
Government 215: Urban Politics
Professor: John Bauman
Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft
Fall 2007
Secondary Sources
Library Catalogs for Books
Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Access to Bowdoin Library's holdings of books, videos, government documents, etc.
MaineCat
Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. Books arrive from Colby and Bates in two days.
NExpress
Permits searching the combined collections of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Northeastern and Wellesley for both books and articles.
WorldCat
Allows for searching the catalogs of many large libraries worldwide.
Indexes/Databases for Articles
Academic Search Premier
Journals in the social sciences, humanities and science. Many full text.
America History and Life
Premier index for history scholarship on the United States and Canada.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Index of the scholarly literature of political science.
PAIS International 1972-present
PAIS International Archive 1915-1976
Index of policy publications—journals, government documents, specialized reports
Primary Sources
American Periodicals Series Online
Digitized images of whole pages from American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.
America’s Historical Newspapers
Cover-to-cover reproductions of many U.S. newspapers from 1690 to 1922.
Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature (print index in Periodicals area)
Use this index to identify 19th century articles in Bowdoin Library’s print periodicals collection.
Individual Newspapers
Boston Globe
- Current (1979 - present)
- Historical (1872-1924)
New York Times
- Current (1980 - present)
- Historical (1851 - 2004)
Washington Post
- Current (1987 - present)
- Historical (1851 -2004)
Los Angeles Times
- Current (1985 - present)
Chicago Tribune
- Current (1985 - present)
Wall Street Journal
- Current (1985 - present)
- Historical (1889 - 1990)
Government Documents
Historical Statistics
Database of statistics from colonial times to the
present.
Catalog of Government Publications
Index of federal government publications from 1976 to the present.
LexisNexis Congressional
Index of congressional hearings, reports and documents from 1789 to 1969.