How to Use JSTOR for Research on Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: JSTOR is a database of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Begin by clicking on advanced search. Here you can type in search terms for your topic. For example, let's search for information about Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Type Nat Turner into the first line of the search form. Type slave into the second line of the search form. Let's limit our search results to articles and books by checking off those two boxes. We can skip book reviews because these are rarely useful for most student research. Now click on submit advanced search. Here are the search results. There are 2,668 articles. The second one is titled Neighborhoods and Nat Turner, the Making of a Slave Rebel and the Unmaking of a Slave Rebellion. The author is Anthony E. Kay. This article was published in 2007 in the Journal of the Early Republic, which is a scholarly journal. Let's click on the article title to view the full text. Here's the article. The permalink for this article is listed on the left. Right below that is the permalink that will allow specifically Lone Star College users to access the article. To view a PDF version of this article, click on download PDF. Here's the full text of the article, which you can print or download.