FYWB 1119: Crossing Borders: The Americas

Welcome! This page highlights key resources for the  FYW Crossing Borders: Americas research project, including the following:

• Slides and handouts for the library workshop
• Reference sources to find background and contextual information on your topics and the approaches you might be bringing to your research
• Places to search for books in print and online
• Databases for locating articles, including scholarly and peer-reviewed articles
• Resources for citing your sources and writing
• Tips to to help keep textbook costs down

If you would like assistance identifying additional resources, search terms or strategies, please schedule a research consultation with your personal librarian.

Zora Neale Hurston at Federal Writer's Project booth at New York Times Book Fair. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library (1937), via NYPL Digital Collections

Database exploration exercise

Workshop slides