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This guide is designed to help you research information about human rights. 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!
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=Books=

Books
The online 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

 * "Human Rights"
 * "Genocide"
 * "Human Rights" and war
 * "Torture"

Hay, Jeff, ed. //Genocide and Persecution: Cambodia//. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Print.
 * Call Number: DS554.8 .C355 2013**

Berlatsky, Noah, ed. //Genocide and Persecution: The Kurds//. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Print.
 * Call Number: DS70.8.K8 K855 2013**

Circulating Books
Moyn, Samuel. //The Last Utopia: Human rights in history.// Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Print.
 * Call Number: JC571.M88 2010**

Lauri S. Friedman, ed. //Human Rights//. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Print.
 * Call Number: JC571.H76845 2010**

Hunt, Lynn. //Inventing Human Rights: A history//. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: JC585 .H89 2007**

Ignatieff, Michael, ed. //American Exceptionalism and Human Rights//. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Print.
 * Call Number: JC599.U5 A494 2005**

Lauren, Paul Gordon. //The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen//. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Print.
 * Call Number: JC571.L285 2003**

Shattuck, John. //Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's First Response//. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. Print.
 * Call Number: JC599.U5.S49 2005**

Darfur
Prunier, Gerard. //Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide//. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: DT159.6.D27P78 2007x**

Steidle, Brian and Gretchen Steidle Wallace. //The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur//. New York: Public Affairs, 2007. Print.
 * Call Number: DT159.6.D27 S74 2007**

The Holocaust
Poliakov, Leon. //Harvest of Hate: The Nazi Program for the Destruction of the Jews in Europe//. Westport: Greenhaven Press, 1971. Print.
 * Call Number: D810.J4.P614813**

Niewyk, Donald L., ed. //The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation//. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. Print.
 * Call Number: D804.3.H648 2003**

Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. //Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.// New York: Vintage Books, 1997. Print.
 * Call Number: D804.3.G648 1997**

Friedman, Saul S.. //A History of the Holocaust//. Portland: Valentine Mitchell, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: D804.3.F755 2004**

Rwanda
Barnett, Michael. //Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda//. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Print.
 * Call Number: DT450.435.B38 2003**

Rusesabagina, Paul. //An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography.// New York: Viking, 2006. Print.
 * Call Number: DT450.443.R87.A3 2006**

Reference Books
Cartwright, Rita Cantos. //Human Rights in the United States: A dictionary and documents.// Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Print.
 * Call Number: REF KF4747.5 .C37 2000**

Lawson, Edward, ed. //Encyclopedia of Human Rights//. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1996. Print.
 * Call Number: REF JC571 .E67 1996**

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's periodicals section for articles about human rights.


 * //Newsweek//
 * //Time//

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including over 21,000 articles mentioning "human rights", 3,200 articles mentioning genocide, 2,700 mentioning torture and 900 using "human rights" and war. [|Tutorial]
 * ==[|Academic Search Premier]==

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
 * ==[|Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center]==

From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. This database has over 17,000 full text articles mentioning "human rights", 2,500 mentioning genocide, 2,500 mentioning torture and 1,300 using "human rights" and war. [|Tutorial]
 * ==[|Expanded Academic ASAP]==

=Web sites= There are many good [insert topic] 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, [|Cornell University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Google]
 * [|Bing]

General Human Rights:

 * [|Amnesty International]
 * [|Human Rights First]
 * [|Human Rights Watch]
 * [|United Nations Human Rights]
 * [|U.S. Department of State- Human Rights]

Arab Spring
Artists and Liars Creative Responses to the Egyptian Revolution/ Dr. Heather Brown, Northeastern University
 * [[file:Egyptian_Revolution.pptx]]

Darfur:

 * [|Darfur: a genocide we can stop]
 * [|Sudan Consortium]
 * [|Darfur Information Center]
 * [|OCHA Sudan]
 * [|Darfur in Flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan]

Holocaust:

 * [|Holocaust: crimes, heroes and villains]
 * [|Remember.org]
 * [|Simon Wiesenthal Center]
 * [|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

Rwanda:

 * [|Amnesty International- Rwanda]
 * [|Frontline: triumph of evil]
 * [|Human Rights Watch- Rwanda]
 * [|Never Again]

Open Access journals

 * [|Harvard Human Rights Journal]
 * [|Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights]

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

__[|APA Style Tutorial]__

[|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]

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Updated on 03/29/14 by Joy Singletary.