equence-based methods,

on the basis of molecular comparisons of evolutionarily conserved ribosomal genes, Carl Woese proposed the then-heretical notion that the bacteria actually made up two separate domains, the Bacteria and the Archaea,

Your pile on park wildlife is a bit anemic,

The Eighteenth Amendment did deliver on some of the movement’s promises. Researchers have found that in the early days of Prohibition, alcohol consumption fell to as little as 30 percent of its previous levels, before rebounding to around 60 to 70 percent in the following years. Hospitalizations, arrests, and deaths directly related to alcohol abuse similarly decreased.

Historically, he explains, such matters—including actions that don’t directly harm others, like consensual sexual activity and obscenity—were the province of colonial and local governments. When the union formed, states retained that authority; the Constitution established no overarching national system of criminal or civil law and laid out no moral prescriptions for citizens to follow.

, there were 200,000 saloons across America—“which is 23 saloons for every Starbucks franchise there is today,

is really unusual.”

making an argument both against prohibition and for a kind of diversity within their community that the people who are opposed to alcohol and supporting prohibition are coming after.”

The enemy is not just alcohol, but European immigrants, the

917 that Congress passed a resolution to submit a constitutional amendment for a ban

Remember, your notes on one source do not exist in their own universe. The physical tool you use should help you create links between your documents.

Sections To Include in a Journal

They also give us a clue about how David Nye positions his claim with respect to its range of application.

You may want to include ideas or claims that seem important to you on index cards and create one or more keywords for the idea so that you can draw connections among your notes. For example, you might create an index card for the fourth point with the keywords “technology resistance” to see if other like ideas surface throughout the book.

you’ll want to note the importance of a claim. Ask yourself whether it’s a main point, supporting point, or whether it’s a statement that may not actually be relevant to any main or supportin

Notice that we changed the boxes on the right from “full-text,” which would just be a keyword search throughout all the documents, to “article title.” Also notice that instead of putting down “wolf” or “wolves,” we have written “wolf#.” The reason for this is that in JSTOR, placing “#” after a word will search for all the words with the same stem, so it will search for “wolf” and “wolves.” If we put “goose#,” it would search for “goose,” “geese,” and even “gosling.” These search options have advantages over simple Web searches, and each database search engine uses a different system, so for examples of these ways to use detailed searches, go to the search engine’s help page and find the page for tips on searching – they are usually easy to understand.

Think of journals not only as sources of information, but as the venues for scholars to hold discussions about the topics that they are passionate about. This conversational aspect means that journals publish that which is at the forefront of its particular discipline.

Library shelves are designed to create luck

If you do not know the exact title of the book you are looking for, try searching for the book on Amazon.Amazon will give you the book’s exact title, which you can then use to search for the book in your library’s catalog.

online library catalogs cannot retrieve the records for relevant books if you spell a word incorrectly or include search terms that are not in the catalog record.

Library of Congress (“LC”) Classification System.

Malcolm X

So those of us whose political and economic and social philosophy is black nationalism have become involved in the civil rights struggle. We have injected ourselves into the civil rights struggle. And we intend to expand it from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights. As long as you fight it on the level of civil rights, you're under Uncle Sam's jurisdiction. You're going to his court expecting him to correct the problem. He created the problem. He's the criminal! You don't take your case to the criminal, you take your criminal to court. [applause]

questions and documents is flexible and reciprocal,

helps you to expand the realm of the possible and look for documents in places you wouldn’t normally consider.

Imagining Your Ideal Sources

Why then? Why there? H

research is an iterative process

One of the best ways to generate a topic from a general interest is to look up encyclopedia articles.

Blair, Bertha. Women in Arkansas Industries. Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1935.

Historical

“The parchment is hairy.”