The Pendle Hill Pamphlets provide concise presentations of many Quaker subjects, and helps to establish notable authors and major themes.
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History 240 : History and Principles of Quakerism
General Quaker Reference Resources:
Quaker Studies Subject Portal
Historical dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Explains common and confusing Quaker terminology and an excellent bibliogrpahy organized by subject, as well as biographies
The Dictionary of Quaker biography.
Publisher: Haverford, Pa. : Haverford College, Magill Library, Special Collections,
Presents quick and authoritative information about many Quakers, references included
Quaker necrology index.
Publisher: Haverford, Pa. : Haverford College, Magill Library, Special Collections.
Find obituaries of Quakers in Quaker journals since 1828
Quaker Reference Index
Provides subject access into 19th century Quaker journals - a card catalog by Special Collections' entrance
Quaker Novel Assignment:
FINDING NOVELS:
- Browse the Harvey Peace Room in Special Collections
- List of in-print Quaker Novels
BOOK REVIEWS:
Finding Book Reviews
Also:
- Browse recent Quaker journals up to a year or more after book publication
- Some reviews can be found through Tripod by searching on author or title in the Pamphlet Group Collection
- Publishers catalogs can provide unique information - ask the Special Collections Librarians
Bibliographic Essay Assignment:
BOOKS:
- Locate books on your topic in the Quaker Collection, Haverford, and Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore
- Use a keyword search to identify appropriate subject headings. Also try: "[Topic] - Religious aspects - Society of Friends" and "Society of Friends - [Topic]"
- Search by author(s) for those who write on your topic
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials world-wide.
DATABASES:
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
History - Primary Sources Subject Portal
Literature resource center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Biography and genealogy master index
Provides citations to reference sources and important retrospective works that cover individuals both living and deceased from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Biography resource center
Provides access to biographical sources on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
JOURNALS:
Historical abstracts
Provider: EBSCO
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
America, history and life
Provider: EBSCO
Provides abstracts of journals, reviews and dissertations on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers 1954-present.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
QUAKER JOURNALS:
Quaker history.
Publisher: [Haverford, Pa., etc.] Friends Historical Association.
Indexed in "Historical Abstracts" from 1960 to the present. Paper index available in Special Collections from 1906 to 1960. A good resource for scholarly articles and book reviews.
- You will find current and historical Quaker journals in the Quaker Collection. You can find scholarly articles, book reviews, and advertisements and determine what Friends were discussing at the time. Many are cataloged and on Tripod, but ask the Librarians to help you discover others.
SUBJECT PAMPHLET GROUPS AND EPHEMERA:
A great place to find elusive and ephermeral information, such as
pamphlets, newspaper clippings, reports, and promotional materials
pamphlets, newspaper clippings, reports, and promotional materials
Biographies, subjects and works by and about Quakers have been cataloged and will be found on Tripod via author, title or keyword searches