HIST 491: History and Memory in America and Europe (Spring, 2024)

1) Write out your topic

2) Identify key words

3) Identify synonyms

4) write out the search using Boolean

5) After your first search, revise terms

• the layout of DC as a reflection of national narrative/memory
  • ("District of columbia" OR "washington DC") AND (design OR "urban planning" OR layout)
• the way the Crusades have been taken up into extreme right wing memory
  • (crusades OR crusaders) AND ("right wing" OR "far right" OR "political extremists" OR "white supremacists" OR "white supremacism")
  • ibid, but in PRIMO
• depictions of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and how that has been treated differently in the US and in Japan
  • bomb* AND hiroshima AND (depiction* OR memor* OR remember*) in ahl
  • bomb* AND hiroshima AND (depiction* OR memor* OR remember*) in ha 
• four films reflecting a child's-eye view of war
  • Depending on the films and wars
• meanings of the Vendee uprisings in the French Revolution
  • vendee AND "French revolution"
• the Polish 'Ministry of Memory'
  • (Polish OR poland) AND ("ministry of Memory" OR "Institute of National Remembrance")
• Irelands 'industrial schools' run by the Catholic church
  • (irish OR ireland) AND cathol* AND ("Industrial School" OR "industrial schools")
  • broader search to catch full-text article in other databases

my topic on  "one room schoolhouse" OR "little red schoolhouse"

I'd try (memory OR remembrance) AND (school* OR education) AND 19th

• ex:  (ireland OR irish) AND "industrial schools"
• ex. (Polish OR poland) AND ("Ministry of Memory" OR "Institute of National Remembrance") 
• ex. Vendee AND "French Revolution"
• ex. (Depictions OR memory) AND hiroshima AND (japan OR "united states")
• ex. (perspective* OR memory) AND children AND war AND (film OR cinema)
• ex. ("right wing" OR extremists) AND Crusade*
• ex  "united states" AND "District of columbia" and "urban planning" AND history
  • Sometimes searches will miss important books, so try several different variations