American History Research Guide
[Printed
volumes in the Castleton State College Library are in brown
type.
Blue entries are links to electronic
resources.]
FINDING BOOKS
Use the
Vermont
State Colleges Online Catalog to locate books. The official
subject heading is “
United
States--history.”
Browse the subdivisions under the subjects “
United States history” (subdivisions are chronological)
or “history
United
States” (subdivisions are alphabetical)
. Or try using the subdivision
"
United States
history" under another subject (i.e. search "sports—
United States history" as a subject).
Or try an “advanced search:” put “
United
States--history” as a subject,
and put in some keywords from your topic.
For browsing purposes, the call number for
United States
history is 973.
RESEARCH DATABASES AND INDEXES FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES*
General
Academic Search Premier
Essay and General Literature Index 1900- (REF INDEX 800.011
Es73)
Expanded
Academic Index
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
New York Times Index 1851- (REF INDEX 070.172 N42)
History-specific
America, History and Life
1964-1982 (REF INDEX 970.011 Am35)
America:
History and Life
Historical Abstracts
1955-1984 (REF INDEX 900.016 H629)
*Note: Links to full text of some articles will
be available immediately. If there is NO link to full text,
check Castleton's Journal Holdings List
for availability.
HANDBOOKS, RESEARCH GUIDES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
A
Guide to the Study of the United States of America: Representative
Books Reflecting the Development of American Life and Thought (REF 016.9173 Un3)
United States History: A
Selective Guide to Information Sources
(REF 016.973 B614u)
Handbook
for Research in American History
(REF 016.973 P95h)
Handbook of American Women’s History (REF 305.4 Z76h)
The American Historical
Association's Guide to Historical Literature (REF 901.6 Am35)
Harvard Guide
to American History (REF 973.016 F881h)
United States History: A
Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources (REF 973.016
P426u)
American Presidents: A Bibliography
(REF 973.0922 M363a)
DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND YEARBOOKS
Encyclopedia
of American Political History (REF 320.973 G823e)
Congress and the Nation (REF 320.973
C76c)
The HarperCollins Dictionary
of American Government and Politics
(REF 320.973 Sh13h)
Dictionary of American Immigration History (REF 325.73
C812d)
Encyclopedia of American Economic History (REF 330.973
En19)
Encyclopedia of the
American Constitution (REF 342.73 En197)
Facts on File Yearbook
1968- (REF 904 F119)
The Encyclopedia
of American Facts and Dates (REF 973.02 C237e)
Dictionary of American History
(REF 973.03 D561)
The American Heritage Encyclopedia
of American History
(REF 973.03 Am35)
Encyclopedia
of American Cultural and Intellectual History (REF 973.03 En193)
Encyclopedia of American History (REF 973.03 En1934)
The Reader's
Companion to American History (REF 973.03 F732r)
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and
History (REF 973.0496073
En193)
American Decades
(REF 973.9 Am35)
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
New
York Times Obituaries Index
1956-1978 (REF 071.471 N42o)
Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005 (REF 328.730922 B52)
Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress 1774- (http://bioguide.congress.gov/)
African American
Lives (REF 920.009296
Af834)
American National
Biography (REF 920.073 Am35)
Dictionary
of American Biography (REF 920.073 D561)
Great Lives from History,
American Series (REF 920.073 M175g)
Research Guide to American Historical Biography
(REF 920.073 N555r)
Who Was Who in America
(REF 920.073 W62w)
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
(REF 920.72 J232n)
Notable American
Women: the Modern Period (REF 920.72 J232nm)
Who Was Who in Native American History (REF 970.004 W146w)
American Reformers (REF 973.0992 W591a
STATISTICS
Historical
Statistics of the States of the United States (REF 317.3 D661h)
Historical Statistics of the United States:
Earliest Times to the Present (REF 317.3
H629)
Datapedia
of the United States, 1790-2000: America Year by Year (http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=73125)
(REF 317.3 K965d)
Historical
Statistics of the United
States:
Colonial Times to 1970 (REF 317.3 Un3h)
Statistical
Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/)
(REF
317.3 Un35).
Selected
Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts (http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html)
PRIMARY SOURCES
Try
searching on “(personal narrative$ or correspondence or diar$,
or interview$) and your
topic” in a keyword search in the VSC or other library catalogs.
Newspapers
The New York Times Index 1851- (REF 070.172 N42).
The New York Times
is available on microfilm dating back to 1851.
Lexis
Nexis contains full-text of major U.S. and foreign papers. Coverage
for most is from the mid-1980s to the present, but abstracting
goes back further.
Vermont Newspapers Index
(http://bfprhdindex.uvm.edu) offers a searchable
index to the Burlington Free Press and the Rutland Herald from
1984 to the present.
Union List of Vermont Newspapers
(http://vtnp.uvm.edu) VT 071.43 Un313.
This is a searchable index to the newspaper holdings of close
to 100 newspaper repositories in Vermont.
Some sources
of primary source documents and images
Documents
of American History (REF 973 C735d9)
Annals of America (REF 973.08 An72)
The Avalon Project at the
Yale Law School-American History: A Documentary Record. 1492-1973.
(http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm)
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
(http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html)
Library of
Congress American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html)
Making of America. (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/)
U. S. National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/research/)
Help
finding primary sources
Library
Research: Finding Primary Sources
(http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html)
Using
Primary Sources on the Web
(http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/)
OTHER RECOMMENDED SOURCES
Smithsonian
National Museum of American History. (http://americanhistory.si.edu)
American Women’s History:
A Research Guide (http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html)
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