Course Texts Available in the Library
Transgender History, Second Edition
Available as a physical book and an eBook.
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
On course reserve.
(Available to be checked out for 3 hours for in-library use.)
A Dream of a Woman
On course reserve.
(Available to be checked out for 3 hours for in-library use.)
Start your research
OneSearch is a great place to start with if you aren't sure exactly what you are looking for and want to see what is out there for information!
In OneSearch you can find print and eBooks, journal articles, news, streaming video, images, primary sources and more.
Remember! Library databases do not function the same way as Google or other search engines. If you put an entire question into the search box, you will get results, but often they may not be relevant to your topic. Follow the steps below to break your question into keywords for better searches!
1. Take your topic or research question and break it into keywords or phrases.
Example) How do the distinct challenges and societal perceptions faced by climate refugees in the United States impact immigration policies?
2. Think of synonyms or related terms to come up with additional keywords you could use.
Example)
| Keyword 1: climate refugees | Keyword 2: United States | Keyword 3: immigration policies |
|---|---|---|
| environmental refugees | United States of America | migration policies |
| forced migration | America | emigration |
| environmental migration | U.S. | government policies |
| climate migration | U.S.A. | public policy |
Hint! Use a thesaurus and the Internet to help you come up with additional keywords.
Search Strings
Combine keywords and phrases to form a "search string."
Example) "climate refugees" AND immigration policies AND "United States"
or... ("climate refugees" OR "climate change") AND immigration AND "United States" AND policies
AND tells the database you are looking for ALL of the listed terms and will narrow your results
OR tells the database you want EITHER of the listed terms and will help expand your results if you're not finding what you're looking for
You can also use NOT to tell the database you do NOT want to see sources with the specified term(s).
Quotes
Notice how key phrases are grouped together with quotation marks.
Ex.) "climate refugees" / "United States"
Using quotes tells the database to search for the words together as a phrase instead of searching for each word independently. Note that while this can be a very helpful tool, especially when you are looking for a very specific phrase, sometimes you might want to try searching for the terms without quotes. It's a good idea to try searches using quotes around key phrases and without to see which results in better results.
Filters
Filters are a useful tool in narrowing your search results to the specific type of source you are looking for. The most common filters you will likely use are:
- Publication Date - typically you will look for sources published within the past 5-10 years, but depending on your research question or topic that range could change.
- Material Type - this filter is helpful when you are looking specifically for books, articles, or another type of resource. Be sure to consider which resource type will best fit your needs before applying this filter.
- Peer Reviewed - if you are looking for academic articles, you will most likely want to use the "Peer Reviewed" filter as these articles are often considered the "gold standard" of scholarly articles.
Although these are the most common types of filters people use when searching for resources, do not limit yourself to these and feel free to explore and use other available filters as you feel are useful and appropriate for your research.
Expand your Research
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of past issues of scholarly journals from all areas of study. Includes full runs of covered journals, excluding content from the past 2-5 years. Also includes eBooks and book chapters.
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
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GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowFocuses on the evolution of the women's movement, LGBTQIA community, and changes in gender roles over time. More broadly, resources encompass the impact of gender across disciplines and subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and more. Includes coverage from 1970.
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Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities Journals This link opens in a new window
Over 1,400 online journals from ca. 1997 - present.
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Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 1,000 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google's search engine for scholarly material.
When on campus articles available through Trinity Library resources are indicated by an Online- Trinity College link to the right of the article title. To view these indications when off campus open Google Scholar Settings and in the Library Links page search for Trinity College. Select Trinity College – Online- Trinity College and save your selection.
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Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowA full-text news resource consisting of local, regional, national and international sources. Updated daily, it offers primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs.
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EBSCO Magazine Archives This link opens in a new window
Digital magazine archives of select popular magazines, including covers and advertisements. Titles include: The Atlantic, Fortune, Life, New Republic, National Review, Nation, People, Sports Illustrated, and Time.
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U.S. Major Dailies (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Includes recent and current content of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Coverage: 1980-current. Individual titles have varying coverage dates.
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Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus includes full-text U.S. and international newspapers, television and radio news transcripts, and newswires.
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VIBE Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The full run of Vibe, the U.S. magazine of record for hip-hop culture from 1993-2014. Founded by Quincy Jones, Vibe not only offered influential reporting and news about rap, hip-hop, and R&B music but established mainstream media coverage of urban youth culture. It also raised the public visibility of many major hip-hop and R&B artists.
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Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
The Vogue Archive contains the full run of the American version of Vogue. Every page, cover, advertisement, image, and fold out is indexed, searchable, and viewable in high-resolution color. Coverage: 1892-present (new issues added monthly).
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Rolling Stone Archive This link opens in a new window
The archive of one of the most influential consumer magazines of the 20th-21st centuries. It has been a leading publication for rock and popular music journalism, as well as entertainment, society, and politics. Coverage: 1967-present (includes new issues).
Library Resources
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Archives of Sexuality & Gender This link opens in a new windowA robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, with a primary focus on LGBTQ History since the 1940s.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of past issues of scholarly journals from all areas of study. Includes full runs of covered journals, excluding content from the past 2-5 years. Also includes eBooks and book chapters.
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Diversity Collection This link opens in a new window
Three databases combined in one collection: Alt-Press Watch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and GenderWatch. Alt-PressWatch includes full-text newspapers and magazines from alternative, independent presses. Ethnic NewsWatch contains full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press and also Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, covering Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. GenderWatch publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports focused on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
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Queer Pasts This link opens in a new windowPrimary source exhibits for students and scholars of queer history and culture. The database uses “queer” in its broadest and most inclusive sense, to embrace topics that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and to include work on sexual and gender formations that are queer but not necessarily LGBT. Each of the document collections will include a critical introductory essay that helps explain the significance of the primary sources in historical terms and in relationship to previous scholarship.
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A Queer History of Trinity CollegeAn exhibit created by Crystal Nieves, Director of LGBTQ+ Life & the Queer Resource Center (QRC) at Trinity, that documents the history of queer rights and history at Trinity College from 1955 through 2023. Includes primary sources from Trinity's Archives housed in the Wakinson Library and our digital repositories.
Physical display is located on Level 2 of the library above the Englehard Reading Room, as of Fall 2025.
Archives & Museums
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Digital Transgender Archive
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history. -
GLBT Historical Society Museum & ArchivesFounded in 1985, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.
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Museum of Trans History and Art (MOTHA)The mission of MOTHA is to ask audiences to think critically about what a visual history of transgender life could and should look like, and if it’s even possible to compile a comprehensive history of an identity category for which the language is fairly new, sometimes contested, and still rapidly evolving.
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Transgender Archives (University of Victoria)The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries is committed to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of Trans+ people. We are accessible to everyone, free of charge.
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Queer History Boston Digital ArchiveQueer History Boston (previously known as "The History Project") is a community archives - a repository, historical society, and museum for the LGBTQ+ community's history. THP is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1980 that holds LGBTQ+ historical records and ephemera, supports LGBTQ+ history research, and shares LGBTQ+ history through public exhibits and events. The History Project is focused exclusively on documenting and preserving the history of New England’s LGBTQ communities and sharing that history with LGBTQ individuals, organizations, allies, and the public.
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American LGBTQ+ MuseumThe American LGBTQ+ Museum preserves, investigates, and celebrates the dynamic histories and cultures of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, as well as those of the emergent and adjacent identities among our communities. Using exhibitions and programs, they seek to advance LGBTQ+ equality through the lens of social justice movements, including, but not limited to, race, gender, class, immigration, and disability.
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Trans Oral History ProjectThe Transgender Oral History Project (TOHP) was the first community-driven effort to collect and share a diverse range of stories from within the transgender and gender-expansive communities in the US. From 2007-2020, TOHP documented trans experiences, taught media production skills, created multimedia exhibitions, led intergenerational public programming, and improved trans visibility in LGBTQ+ archives.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Web-based digital video delivery platform that allows viewing of thousands of streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime. Available for in-class use and remote viewing.
Notes: Works best with Firefox. Use the 'email this video' feature to send a film link, not the browser link.
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Docuseek2 Complete Collection (Second Edition) This link opens in a new windowThe Docuseek2 Complete Collection™: Second Edition will contain 1800 exclusive documentaries, upon completion in 2020. This collection of issues-based documentary films comes from leading producers and distributors, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, the National Film Board of Canada, MediaStorm, Terra Nova Films, KimStim, and Scorpion TV, and other independent filmmakers from around the world. This collection focuses on environmental studies and sciences, sociology, anthropology, global studies, area studies, women’s studies, history, political science, criminal justice, health, psychology, the arts, and more.
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PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window
Streaming video documentaries and series from PBS. Subjects range from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more. Includes access to a select number of NOVA episodes.
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Kanopy This link opens in a new windowEducational and feature films from major producers including California Newsreel, Criterion Collection, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber, and others. For academic use only.
Films may need to be ordered in advance before viewing. See https://commons.trincoll.edu/library/2019/08/12/changes-to-kanopy-film-streaming-library/ for more details.
Get Help with Your Research
Meet Your Librarian!
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Schedule an appointment with a Student Technology Assistant (STA)
- STAs will assist you with a wide range of project support.
- STAs help with technologies like: 3-D printing, digital video and audio production, Power Point, Keynote, poster designs, Oculus Rift VR, image editing using Photoshop and more.
- Located on Level 1 of the Library in the Center for Digital Scholarship.
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Trinity College's Peer Tutoring Cooperative
- Connect to a range of peer tutoring opportunities across campus.
- Covers different disciplines and research and academic support and assistance.
- The Peer Tutoring Cooperative includes: The Writing Center, Aetna Quantitative Center, Blume Language Culture & Learning Center, Peer Research Assistants in the Library, Academic Advising and Trinity's Subject-Based Tutoring Center.
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Research Handout - Getting StartedA worksheet guiding you through the topic development process of your research and getting you started searching for sources through library databases using keywords.
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Source Evaluation WorksheetThis worksheet guides you through some of the considerations to take into account when evaluating sources. It includes red flags to pay attention to within a source (vertical reading), as well as strategies for looking at other sources (lateral reading) to determine reliability.