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United States History

Journals & Indexes | Web Resources | Topical Web Resources | Historic Newspapers| Reference Works | Bates History Department | Librarian

You might also look at other guides, such as American Cultural Studies, African American Studies or American Civil War.

Full Text Journals & Indexes

 

Online Reference Sources

  America History and Life
ABOUT     America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
  Reader's Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
ABOUT     American Periodical Series, 1740-1900
search interface to historic periodicals
  Bibliography of Native North Americans ABOUT     Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
A definitive text resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.
  U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 as of 1/08, to 1935 ABOUT
  American State Papers, 1789-1838 ABOUT     In the First Person an index to some letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives (caution: we may or may not have access to all the sources that are indexed here)
       

Multi-Database Search : General/History or American Studies

Web Resources

American Studies Web
This Georgetown University American studies site, like the disipline itself, offers an interdisciplinary approach to a potpourri of topics, both large and small. This link takes you to a historical chronological arrangement of websites.

Academic Info: United States History
An annotated directory of internet resources from an independent directory compiled and maintained by Mike Madin.

AMDOCS:Documents for the study of American history
This site contains a bibliography of primary sources essential for the study of U.S. history that are available on the web.

Avalon Project
A Yale Law School sponsored site of primary documents in law, history and diplomacy from the 18th century on


Annals of American History
Primary sources from Encyclopedia Britannica arranged by chronologically and topically, and searchable by authors names.

History of the American West, 1860-1920
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory site, this section contains more than 30,000 photographs depicting daily life in Colorado including numerous photos of Native Americans.

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Nineteenth Century Documents project
Primary texts focusing on the causes, events and debates preceding the US Civil War.

Feeding America
Michigan State University makes its collection of 7,000 historical cookbooks available in digital form.

American Historical Association
Professional association site with resources about teaching and history esp. under "Add'l Resources" tab

Organization of American Historians

Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges.

Topic-related Web Resources

American Revolution
A selection of sites pertaining to the American Revolutionary Era.

Colonial History
A selection of primary sources for the study of U.S. colonial history.

Civil War
A selection of sites pertaining to the Civil War.

Great Depression
A selection of sites for the study of the Great Depression era history.

Lewiston
A compilation of local history sites or locations.

Japanese-American Relocation Camps
A selection of sites pertaining to the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.

Labor in the United States
A Selection of sites pertaining to the development of labor and labor issues in the United States.

Vietnam War
A selection of sites pertaining to the Vietnam War.

Historic Newspapers

Online Microfilm
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
Lewiston Evening Journal, 1861-
  Morning Star (Freewill Baptist), 1826-1911
New York Times, 1851-2000 ; 1980-current Maine Farmer (Winthrop), 1833-1900

Boston Globe, 1872-1922; 1980-1996; 1987-

National Intelligencer, 1800-1870
Los Angeles Times, 1881-1985; 1985-1996;
1996-current
New York Tribune, 1841-1896
  Dispatch (Richmond), 1855-1875
  Japanese Camp Papers, 1942-1945
  San Francisco Chronicle, 1940-1942

Reference Works

Dictionary of American History
Reference E174 .D52 2003, 10 vols

Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Reference E184.A1 G15 1999, 2 vols.

American National Biography
Reference CT213 .A68 1999, 24 vols.
Also, see the website at www.anb.org

American Eras
Reference E169.1 .A471979 1997, 8 vols.

American Decades
Reference E169.12 .A419 1994, 9 vols.

Encyclopedia of American Social History
Reference HN57 .E58 1992, 3 vols.

Encyclopedia of American Economic History
Reference HC103 .E52, 3 vols

Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations
Reference E183.7 .E53 1997, 4 vols.

Helpful subject headings:

Use the subject heading United States History and browse the results.

Or add specific time periods such as:
United States History Colonial Period
United States History Civil War

Or refine your search with more definitive subject terms such as:
United States Economic Conditions

For ethnic or gender studies use subject headings such as:
African Americans History
Women United States History

Library contact:

For more information, contact:

Laura Juraska
Associate Librarian for Reference Services
207-786-8324
e-mail: ljuraska AT bates.edu

The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College
48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240
(207) 786-6263


Page author: Laura Juraska
Date: 1/27/08


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