Background Research
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Britannica Academic provides access to over 10,000 encyclopedia entries from the Encyclopedia Britannica, magazines and journals, and Britannica videos.
- World Book Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
World Book Encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly; it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, and medical subjects. This encyclopedia contains encyclopedia articles for early learners through adults.
Academic Definitions
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. The OER is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Scholarly Literature
For your topic, we recommend searching in our EBSCO databases. Start in Academic Search Ultimate. Once in the database, select "Choose Databases by Subject" and add all.
First search box terms:
- "Christian Nationalism" - This will yield results were the two words are together as one phrase.
- Christian* n2 Nationalism* - This will yield results where the words Christian and Nationalism are within 2 words of each other.
Second search box term:
- Use your second term, such as race or immigration, in the second search box to refine based on your subtopics.
- For example: "Christian Nationalism" AND race
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
This database is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. It includes peer-reviewed journals, full-text, and abstract-only works from numerous publications.
Points of View Resources
- Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Points of View Reference Center contains many topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). For each topic, this database also offers a Guide to Critical Analysis, which helps the reader evaluate the controversial topics.