U. S. History
Reference Books
The Reference collection is usually an excellent starting point for research projects. Reference books are non-circulating items (they cannot be checked out) and are designed to be used to look for specific information rather than read cover to cover. Additionally, reference books contain bibliographic records that can lead to the discovery of further resources to support one's thesis. In some instances, the reference books are compiled or supported by primary source documents.
Databases
- America: History and Life
America: History and Life is the index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
- American Periodicals Series Online
The collection is arranged in three series: 1741-1800, the period of transition from British colony to emerging nation; 1800-1850, pre-Civil War and the era of debate over slavery; and 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction.
- HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the electronic version of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, 1857-1871
- Historical Statistics of the United States
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history.
- Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850
Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 17961850 describes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, the earliest in 1796.
- National Underground Railroad Center
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Digital Images is a collection of digital documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation.
- Open Access History Journals
An international collection of full text history journals.
- E.W. Scripps Papers, 1868-1926
E. W. Scripps Papers, 1868-1926 is a growing collection of letters and photos from the Scripps Manuscript Collection at Ohio University.
- Wright Brothers Digital Photographs
Wright Brothers Digital Photographs is a collection of photographs documenting the invention of the airplane, the lives of the Wright Family, and the Wrights' flying exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
- Academic Search Complete
Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.
Websites
- Cleveland Memory Project (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/)
A digital collection of resources documenting local history compiled from Cleveland State University Library's Special Collections.
- Ohio Historical Society (http://www.ohiohistory.org/) connects people with Ohio's past and the state's place in
American History.
- AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/)
This virtual library links to primary historical documents portraying the spectrum of American history.
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Document Collection (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp)
covers Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from pre 18th century to the current century.
- American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html) is a Library of Congress project that documents the American experience through a variety of media formats.
- U.S. Immigration, 1789-1930 (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/)
is a web-based collection of selected historical materials that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
- Slavery & Abolition in the US: Select Publications of the 1800s (http://deila.dickinson.edu/slaveryandabolition/title/0145.html) is a digital collection of books and pamphlets that capture the essence of the slavery debate throughout the nineteenth century.
- Women Working, 1800-1930 (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)
focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections.
- Manuscripts Department at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/)
This site is one of the world's outstanding centers for the documentary study of the southern United States.
- Bisbee Deportation of 1917 : A University of Arizona Library Web Exhibit (http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/)
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States.
- Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/)
A website dedicated to using current technology as tool to enhance the teaching and researching of history.
- Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project (http://www.densho.org/) is a site dedicated to preserving the testimonials of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated throughout the American west and southwest throughout WWII.
- Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) is a digital archive for California history curated by the University of California.
- Digital History (http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/) is a site created by faculty and graduate students at the Univesity of Nebraska that devotes its efforts to the exploration of the emerging field of digital history and provides reviews a new digital sites as well as recent scholarship on the subject.
- Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 (http://wardepartmentpapers.org/) recovered documents from the war department, long thought destroyed, reconstituted into a searchable collection to provide insight into the early workings of the federal government.
- The Living Newspaper (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA04/mccain/play/intro.htm) was part of the Federal Theater Project in the 1930s that dramatized and exposed social issues.
- Oklahoma World War II Stories (http://www.oklahomawwii.org/home/) are oral histories from Oklahoma veterans that fought during WWII.
Questions or comments, contact:
Emily Szymanski, Reference & Instruction Librarian
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