Welcome
This guide is selective and intended as a point of departure for your research in HIST E-1710: More Than Just a Meal: American Food, a Global History.
For general historical sources see Library Research Guide for History.
Please feel free to email us with questions. We can make an appointment for you to come in, and we can talk at length about your project.
Mary Frances Angelini (angelini@fas.harvard.edu) Research Librarian for the Extension School
Fred Burchsted, (burchst@fas.harvard.edu) Research Librarian and Liaison to the Department of History, Widener Library
Notebooks
You will want to keep track of where you have searched. Also, of particular importance in historical work, list personal names, organizations, and terminology (which has changed over the years) which you can then use for searching in full text primary source databases.
Short and Very Helpful Videos
Searching HathiTrust full text search (Hathi is super useful but just as picky about how you search)
Harvard Library Bookmark (2:06)
Getting Digital Access to Items in HOLLIS (2:33)
How to Find Online Archival Materials at Harvard (1:06)
How to Access Digital Archival Material from HOLLIS (2:15)
Finding Secondary Sources (6:05)
Google NGram Viewer (2:37)
How to install the Harvard Library Bookmark (2:10)
Accessing Articles in Bon Appetit (2:50)
Finding Full Text Cookbooks in HOLLIS and Internet Archive (3:52)