HIST 301: Historian's Craft (Benes, Spring 2025)

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

• Propaganda in Britain aimed to increase enlistment.
  • Propaganda
  • Britain
  • Enlistment
    • Propaganda AND (Britain OR "united kingdom") AND enlistment
      • AND "World War I" in databases, or AND "world war" AND 1918 in the catalog
• Impact of the war in Germany on Education.
  • "world war I" AND germany AND education
    • probably all as subjects
• Diplomacy between Britain and France during the first year of the war.
  • Diplomacy, Britain, France
    • for books: (Diplomacy OR "foreign relations") AND France AND (britain OR "united kingdom") AND "World war" AND 1918
    • for articles, (Diplomacy OR "foreign relations") AND France AND (britain OR "united kingdom") AND "World war" AND 1918
      • or (Diplomacy OR "foreign relations") AND France AND (britain OR "united kingdom")  [ use filter to 1914-1915 ]
• Impact of the war on Art
  • would need to narrow to a country, style, artist, genre.
    • "world war I" AND "Social aspects" AND art
    • If I'm not sure how to narrow, I'd try subject search for Art and "World War I" and use the subject filter to narrow from the results
• Rise of Salafism in WWI Egypt
  • (salafism OR "salafi movement") AND egypt* AND "world war I" 
  • (salafism OR "salafi movement") AND egypt* AND ("world war" AND 1918)
• Frontline music in WWI
  • music AND (frontline* OR "front line" OR "Western front" OR "eastern front") AND "world war I" 
  •  music AND (frontline* OR "front line" OR "Western front" OR "eastern front") AND ("world war" AND 1918)
• US Espionage Act of 1917
  • "espionage act of 1917" 
  • espionage AND "united states" AND "world war I" 
  • espionage AND "united states" AND ("world war" AND 1918)
• Dogs on the frontlines
  • dogs AND (frontline* OR "front line" OR "Western front" OR "eastern front") AND "world war I" 
  • AND (frontline* OR "front line" OR "Western front" OR "eastern front") AND ("world war" AND 1918)
• Prohibition and organized crime in US
  • Prohibition AND "organized crime" AND "united states"
• Creel Commission
  • ("Creel Commission" OR "Committee on Public Information")