Political Parties Since 1896

Resources for completing the campaign assignment in Political Parties

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Keyword vs. Subject

Keywords--terms that can appear anywhere in a record--are the quick and easy way to search.
Using keywords, you can combine multiple ideas, or locate specific essays inside collective works.

Connectors: Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Examples:

  • populism and agrarian
  • populism or agrarian
  • populism and not agrarian

Wildcards: Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk or question mark:

  • * for any number of characters
  • ? to replace a single character anywhere within a word

Examples : slave*, wom?n

Adjacency: "And" is assumed between words. Place phrases in quotes. Example:

"gold standard"

Subject Headings--terms applied by catalogers or indexers--describe the content of the item. Often, subject headings are divided by geographic place, by time period, by ethnic group, or other aspects. Subject headings are searched as phrases.


Using subject headings will pull together related records with terminology you may have not considered in your keyword search.

Examples:

keywords / ideas
EXAMPLE subject headings
a particular election

presidents -- united states -- elections -- [year]
united states congress--elections--[year]

 

a particular party

whig party--us--history
democratic party--us--history--19th century
republican party--us-1854-history

 

politics of an era

united states--politics and government--18th century
united states--politics and government--19th century
united states--politics and government--1783-1809
united states--politics and government--1783-1865
united states--politics and government--1829-1837
united states--politics and government--1861-1865
united states--politics and government--1865-1933
united states--politics and government--1865-1900

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