Reference Research Guide - American History From 1877

Located In Stacks

Range Subject
CT93 – CT206 General Collective Biography
CT210 – CT3150 National Biography
E660 – E738 Late 19th Century
E714 – E735 Spanish-American War
E740 Twentieth Century
F1 – F975 United States: Local Histories

Videos

Location Title
CT213 .A68 1998 American National Biography (24 vols.)
CT214 .R47 1988 Research Guide to American Historical Biography (5 vols.)
E173 .B7 Dictionary of American History (6 vols.)
E185 .H64 1997 Chronology of African-American History
F208.2 .I57 1987 Interpreting Southern History
F209 .A45 1986 The American South (2 vols.)
F209 .E53 1989 Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
F369 .D38 Historical Encyclopedia of Louisiana (2 vols.)
F369 .H66 Louisiana, Oral History Collections
F369 .K53 1996 Guide to Oral History Collections in Louisiana

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

Location Title
CT213 .A68 1988 American National Biography (24 vols.)
CT214 .R47 1988 Research Guide to American Historical Biography (5 vols.)
E173 .B7 Dictionary of American History (6 vols.)
E185 .H64 1997 Chronology of African-American History
F208.2 .I57 1987 Interpreting Southern History
F209 .A45 1986 The American South (2 vols.)
F209 .E53 1989 Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
F369 .D38 Historical Encyclopedia of Louisiana (2 vols.)
F369 .H66 Louisiana, Oral History Collections
F369 .K53 1996 Guide to Oral History Collections in Louisiana

Periodicals

Location Title
905 Am3h American Heritage Library has: v.6,1955 - v.52,2001
905 Am35h American Historical Review Library has: v.30,1924/25 to date
905 Am35hi American History Illustrated Library has: v.1,1966 - v.28,1994
905 Am352 America Library has: v.2,1950 - v.50,1998
905 C93 Current History Library has: v.1,1914/15 - v.52,1941; v.1,1941/42 - v.101,2002
905 H629 The Historian: A Journal of History Library has: v.10,1947 - v.15, 1953; v.28,1965 to date
905 J827m Journal of Modern History Library has: v.20,1948 - v.73,2001

Metasites

History: General

American Life Histories • http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/index.html

AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History • http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/

American Memory Project • http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

Best of History Web Sites • http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml

Avalon History Project: Yale University • http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Historical Text Archives • http://historicaltextarchive.com/

Making of America • http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Picture History • http://www.picturehistory.com/

United States Historical Census Browser • http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

United States National Archives & Records Administration • http://www.archives.gov/index.html

Resources Guide to History on the Web • http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historyweb/historyweb.php

History: Women & Ethnic Groups

African-American Mosaic: Library of Congress • http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

American Cultural History:The 20th Century • http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

American Women’s History • http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

Documents From The Women’s Liberation • http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture • http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/

Women and Social Movements to 2000 • http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

History: American South

Documenting the American South • http://docsouth.unc.edu/

First-Person Narratives of the American South to 1920 • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html

Louisiana Sanborn Digital Maps • http://sanborn.umi.com

History: Eras & Movements

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive • http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/

Great Depression Web Resources • http://abacus.bates.edu/Library/resources/subject/gdepress.shtml

New American Studies: Post WWII • http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/

Rutgers Oral History: WWII, Korean War, Vietnam • http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/

Virtual Library: History USA 1940-1950 • http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/vl/1940s/

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E-Journals

Essays in Historyhttp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/

History Today (1980 – 2004)http://www.historytoday.com/dt_archive.asp?gid=20991&g21010=x&g20991=x&type=issue

Transformations: Region, Culture, Societyhttp://transformations.cqu.edu.au/index.shtml

World War IIhttp://www.historynet.com/magazines/world_war_2

E-Texts

African American Almanachttp://www.toptags.com/aama/

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treatieshttp://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

Online Research

Academic Search Premier • http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=aph

Articles First • http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=ArticleFirst;FSIP

P.A.I.S. • http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=PAIS;FSIP

ProQuest Per.Abstract II • http://www.il.proquest.com/pqdauto

Social Sciences Abstracts • http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=qsh

WilsonSelect Plus • http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WilsonSelectPlus;FSIP

World History Collection • http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=wdh

Associations

American Historical Association • http://www.theaha.org

Historical Society • http://www.bu.edu/historic/

Organization of American Historians • http://www.oah.org/announce/links.html

Phi Alpha Theta: National History Honor Society • http://www.phialphatheta.org

Virginia Historical Society • http://www.vahistorical.org/research/main.htm