National History Day Research Resources
Reference Services Department
Topic:
Sojourner Truth
Created 10/2013
Print Resources Available at Denver Public Library include:
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Sojourner Truth’s America by Margaret Washington, University of
Illinois Press, 2009.
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” Speech: A Primary Source
Investigation by Corona Brezina, New York: RosenCentral Primary
Source, 2005.
Sojourner Truth: A Voice for Freedom by Pat McKissack, Berkeley
Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2002.
Sojourner Truth: A Photo-Illustrated Biography by Margo McLoone,
Mankato, Minn: Bridgestone Press, 1997.
Prospector and Interlibrary Loan
Prospector: http://prospectorhome.coalliance.org/
Prospector is a unified catalog of academic, public and special libraries in
Colorado and Wyoming. For items not available at the Denver Public
Library, search here first. Items can take 1-2 weeks to arrive.
WorldCat: http://www.denverlibrary.org/content/didnt-find-it
Use this national and international catalog to search for items not available
at DPL or in Prospector. You must fill out a one-time Request It registration
to place Interlibrary Loan requests. These requests may take 2-3 weeks to
arrive.
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Databases/Digital Resources
To access the Denver Public Library databases:
www.denverlibrary.org
Click on the “Research” tab
Click on “Databases A-Z”
Database suggestions:
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Student Resources in Context - Reference essays, magazine, journal
and newspaper articles, and primary source documents.
New York Times Historical Backfile on ProQuest - Full-text and images
from the New York Times from 1851 to three years before current
year.
Gale Virtual Reference Library – Full-text encyclopedias and other
sources.
America: History and Life – Articles (some full text) covering the
history and pre-history of the United States and Canada.
History Reference Center - Full-text articles, historical documents,
biographies, maps and photos.
Keywords for Catalog and Database Searching
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Truth, Sojourner
Abolitionists – United States -- Biography
African-American Abolitionists -- Biography
Social reformers – United States – Biography
Primary Sources
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Student Resources in Context – Denver Public Library database that
includes, among other things, primary sources.
American Memory – Library of Congress online collection that includes
many documents relating to Sojourner Truth.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): “Ain't I A Woman?”
Speech delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Dictated by Sojourner Truth (ca.1797-1883); edited by Olive Gilbert;
Appendix by Theodore D. Weld. Boston: The Author, 1850.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html
Internet Resources
Some useful websites related to Sojourner Truth include:
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People of Faith: Sojourner Truth – biography and pictures included in
the PBS series, This Far by Faith.
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/sojourner_truth.html
Sojourner Truth Institute – biographical information, pictures, articles,
timeline and speeches.
http://www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Default.htm
Sojourner Truth: Online Resources – Library of Congress Web Guide
with links to text and image resources at the Library, as well as to
reputable external sources.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/truth/
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Annotated Bibliography
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
Google Searching
By adding [site:gov] or [site:edu] to a Google search, you will return only
government or academic webpages.
By adding [-.com] to a search, you will remove .com sites from your
returned results.
Put quotation marks around words "[any word]" to search for an exact
phrase in an exact order.
For more advanced Google searching tips, visit:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861
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