TMU Library Catalogue searches for books, e-books, dvds, and other resources. It is a good place to look for known books, or when using the keyword search to find some relevant titles for an assignment. When you find a good title, open the catalogue record in order to identify the assigned Library of Congress subject headings that can be used to identify similar works.
Some useful general subject headings:
Boycotts
Civil disobedience
Civil rights movements
Democratization
Gay liberation movement--United States--History
Government, Resistance to
Passive resistance--India
Protest movements
Revolutions
Slave insurrections--Haiti
Social justice--United States
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--History
[Name of a country or geographic region] -- History -- [may have subdivisions for time period, type of content etc.]
China--History--Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Personal narratives
Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804
South Africa--History--1909-1961
[Name of country or geographic region] -- Politics and government
China--Politics and government--1976-2002
Germany (East)--Politics and government
South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1961
The Name of a person, or, Name of an organization, or, Name of a building searched as a subject
Bastille
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
United Farm Workers
Name of a topic or event as a subject -- [subdivision for state/country--city]
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969
Keyword search for name of a person (may add another keyword)
gandhi salt
rosa parks boycott
Keyword search for topic
delano grape
defiance south africa
montgomery bus boycott
pro-democracy
storming bastille
tiananmen
saint-domingue [this was the early name of Haiti]
TMU Library Search Everything This search engine searches for books and audio-visual materials that are also listed in the library's catalogue, as well as journal articles (chiefly those that are available electronically), theses and dissertations, newspaper coverage from some recent and a selection of archival newspapers, and digitized content such as out-of-copyright books and journals that are available from sources such as The Internet Archive and The Hathi Trust.
Refine your search by content type or other criteria including listing in the library catalogue.
remain useful sources of quick information. In addition to free sources such as Wikipedia, consider some of our licensed electronic content from publishers such as Oxford University Press, as well as printed items.
Try keyword searches in the main catalogue using subject or topical terms and either dictionaries, or, encyclopedias
Example keyword searches:
Consider these resources:
Try Library of Congress subject headings such as:
The David Rumsey Map Collection makes accessible historic maps of North and South America
Europa World Yeark Book (print, latest held 2016)
EIU Economist Intelligence Unit (online)
OECD Library (online)
Statesman's Yearbook (print, latest held 2019)
World Almanac and Book of Facts (print, latest held 2018)
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (2001; more recent eds. at Toronto Public Library)
The CIA World Factbook - brief information on the history, government, economy, military of 267 countries
New York Public Library-Digital Collections - includes images, postcards, printed ephemera, books
Over 19,000 items (especially books and maps) about 193 countries spanning 8000 BCE to 2000 CE. Includes content from the Daily Sketch, a British tabloid newspaper established in Manchester in 1909 and later moved to London.
The Toronto Public Library (TPL) has ongoing subscriptions to many biographical resources as well other dictionaries and encyclopedias that are not available at TMU. Many of the resources are located at the Toronto Reference Library situated just north of Bloor Street on Yonge Street.