HUM132_Intro_Humanities_Tenhula

toc =HUM 132: Introduction to Humanities=
 * Professor:** Tenhula



This guide is designed to help you research **Humanities** topics. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
 * [|RCC Library Home Page]: Most materials found in this research guide are available at the library's home page.
 * William Hoag: Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this guide or research.

=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. [|Tutorial for searching catalog and ordering books from Metro Boston Library Network (includes Boston Public Library)]

Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase

 * Renaissance Period, 1400-1600- Terms **
 * Renaissance
 * Renaissance art, music, literature, thought etc.
 * 16th century art, music, literature, thought etc.
 * Individual persons or ideas, example: " Leonardo da Vinci"


 * Baroque Period, 1600-1750- Terms **
 * Baroque
 * Baroque art, music, literature, thought etc.
 * 17th century art, music, literature, thought etc.
 * Individual persons or ideas, example: " Annibale Carracci"
 * Classical Period, 1750-1800- Terms**
 * Classical Era (music)
 * Enlightenment
 * Enlightenment art, music, literature, thought etc
 * 18th century art, music, literature, thought etc.
 * Individual persons or ideas, example: "Voltaire"


 * Romantic Period, 1800-1890- Terms**
 * Romanticism
 * Romanticism art, music, literature, thought etc
 * 19th century art, music, literature, thought etc.
 * Individual persons or ideas, example: "William Blake"

Books
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">//Humanism and the Renaissance// : CB361 .H846 2002

<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">//Renaissance//: D203 .J64 2000

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Janson's basic history of western //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">//art//: N5300 .J29 2009

Reference Books
//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Classical //<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">//music//: Ref. MT6 .C564 2005 <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">//Lives and works in the arts : from the Renaissance to the 20th century//: Ref. NX449.5 .L58 1997 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">//Understanding art : a reference guide to painting, sculpture, and architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods//: Ref. N5940 .A7813 2000

<span class="book_title">The Bloomsbury Guide to Art (Credo reference) [|Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance] (ebrary) <span class="book_title">The Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance (Credo Reference)
 * Reference ebooks**

Electronic Books
[|Ebrary] The library has recently added 20,000 online books from the vendor Ebrary. This is the “community college” collection, of interest to students and faculty at 2-year colleges. All books are simultaneously available to all RCC users.

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodicals section for articles about [insert topic]
 * //ArtNews//
 * //National Geographic//

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

World History in Context
Comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history.

Modern World History Online
Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present. Includes timelines, biographies, primary sources and audio/video files.

Credo Reference
Through the Credo Reference database, RCC students can gain access to any of a possible 2,977,685 entries, from 284 titles and 57 publishers.

ARTstor
The ARTstor Digital Library offers more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including Humanities.

=Streaming Videos= Full length and segment videos from Films On Demand. An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance ( 29:00 minutes) The lively discussion between Master Vasari and his apprentice reveals the innovations of Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, Uccello, Masaccio, della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raffaello, and Michelangelo. Images of selected masterpieces illustrate the Roman influence on Renaissance art and reinforce the concepts of perspective, balance, //chiaroscuro,// composition, and realism.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism (25:00 minutes) The life, personality, and thought of the 18th-century political philosopher and essayist are examined in this outstanding program. Emphasis is on Rousseau’s critique of the inequities and shallowness of French society, and the new values system he developed which promoted individual rights and a return to nature.

=Web sites= There are many good Humanities web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Lesley University]has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Altavista]
 * [|Google]

Web sites

 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Renaissance Period, 1400-1600 **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">EuroDocs: History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Heilbrunn Timeline of Art: European Art in the Renaissance <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The Online Medieval & Classical Library <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Voices of the Shuttle: Renaissance & 17th Century

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Baroque Music <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Heilbrunn Timeline of Art: European Art in the 17th & 18th Centuries
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Baroque Period, 1600-1750 **

Eighteenth-Century Resources Enlightenment- Fordham University
 * Classical Period, 1750-1800**


 * Romantic Period, 1800-1890**

Romantic Circles <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Voices of the Shuttle: Romantics

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

__[|APA Style Tutorial]__[|Duke Library Guide to Assembling a List of Works Cited][|Laguardia Community College Library MLA and APA citation style][|The Owl at Purdue: APA Formatting and Style Guide][|The Owl at Purdue: MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide]

=Basic Research Help= Please click the Ask a Librarian icon if you have any questions concerning these guides, need help finding material for your research or any general questions you might have.
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 * Looking for articles? Search our [|Databases].
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Research guide prepared on 11/07/11 by Wiliam Hoag: whoag@rcc.mass.edu