Penn State University Libraries - ENGL 083S: History of Poverty in America

Poverty in the United States: an Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy. Call # HC110.P6P598 2004, Business Reference Collection, 3rd Floor Paterno

The Encyclopedia of American Social History. Call # HN57.E58 1993, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno

Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. HV12.E497 2005, Arts & Humanities Reference Collection, 2nd Floor Pattee

Rich and Poor in America: a Reference Handbook. HC110.I5G55 2008, Social Sciences Reference Collection, 2nd Floor Paterno

• Statistics Guide
• U. S. Census Bureau, Reports on Poverty

Image Databases (when a picture is worth a thousand words)

• Image Databases Guide
• American Social History Online (a large collection of audio, video, images and texts from libraries across the county)

Scholarly Article Databases

• America: History & Life (articles published since 1954 in history journals). Includes links to full-text journals in JSTOR and MUSE
• Literature Online Fulltext (use to find articles and essays on literature)
• HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
• IIBP (International Index to Black Periodicals) Full Text
• MLA International Bibliography (use to find what scholars have written on literary topics)
• Periodicals Index Online (good for early articles, goes back over 200 years!)
• Proquest (magazines and scholary sources from the 1980’s to present)
  
  It is NOT a replacement for searching library databases, but you can find "some" scholarly articles using Google Scholar.
  

20th Century News Sources

• LexisNexus Academic (full-text news sources, some back to the early 1980’s)
• American Periodicals Series (covers a few sources up to the 1930s)
• America’s Newspapers (U.S. newspapers going back to the 1980’s)
• Ethnic Newswatch (newspapers from ethnic communities, e.g. Hispanic-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc….)
• New York Times Historical (1851-2005) (Digital Archive)  (current years on Proquest)

18th & 19th Century News Sources

• American Periodicals Series, 1741-1900+ (1,000+ magazines up to around 1930)
• America’s Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
• British Newspapers, 1600-1900
• British Periodicals (17th to early 20th Century)
• New York Times Historical (1851-2005) (Digital Archive)  (current years on Proquest)