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The early years of the United States were years of growth, challenge, and change. There are numerous books in the Henry G. Bennett Library on the early period of the republic.
| R 016.973. | Freidel, Frank Burt. Harvard Guide to American
History. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974
A valuable resource in doing historical research. Contains bibliographies on many aspects and periods of United States history, plus research methods. |
| R 016.973 | Prucha, Francis Paul. Handbook for Research in American History: A Guide to Bibliographies and Other Reference Works. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. |
| 016.973 M61w | 016.973 M61w Miller, Jay. Writings in Indian History, 1985-1990. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. |
| 970.00497 N42 | Calloway, Colin G., ed. New Directions in American Indian History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988 |
| R 016.9 L82h8 | Logasa, Hannah. Historical non-fiction: An Organized, Annotated, Supplementary Reference Book for the Use of Schools, Libraries, General Reader Brooklawn, N.J., McKinley Pub Co, 1964. |
| R 317.3 D66h | Dodd, Don. Historical Statistics
of the States of the United States: Two Centuries of the Census 1790-1990
Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Contains state level data on population, agriculture, and manufacturing for two hundred years. |
| R 324.973 P92c | Presidential Elections, 1789-1992. Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly, 1995. Contains statistics on every national presidential election since 1789. |
| 317.3 Un3h | United States. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975. |
| R 304.6021 UnEne | United States. Bureau of the Census. Negro Population of the United States, 1790-1915 Government Printing Office, 1918; Kraus Reprint, 1969. |
| R 324.973 P92c | Historical Statistics of the United States. Millennial Edition.
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
This multivolume set contains historical statistics on population, work and welfare, slavery, education, economics, business, consumer expenditures, agriculture, national resource industries, construction, housing, manufacturing, transportation, communications, crime, Confederate States of America statistics, elections statistics, and more. |
| R 973.003 En1 | The Encyclopedia of Southern
History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Contains articles dealing with all aspects of the sixteen southern states that were practicing slavery in 1860. Some of the emphases include extensive state histories, articles on slavery, entries on cities, colloquial expressions, economic and geographic terms, literature, biography, battles, and religion. Most entries contain short bibliographies. |
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| R 973.089 Af8e6 | The African-American Almanac
6th ed. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1994.
These two volumes provide coverage of all aspects of black American history and culture. There is a chronology of important dates and events in African-American History, plus significant documents in African-American history, plus a chapter on slavery in the Americas. |
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| R 973.0496 En1 | .Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996.
This five volume set contains information on African-American history and culture from 1619 to the present. There are 2,200 entries in this set, of which two-thirds are biographies. The other third are articles dealing with events, historical eras, legal cases, areas of cultural achievement, professions, sports, and places. |
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| R 973.03 D56 | Dictionary of American History New York:
Scribner, 1976.
This is a standard reference work on American History. The first edition was published in 1940, and was edited by James Truslow Adams. The first edition was widely praised . After many years, it was felt that there were some deficiencies in the first edition. The american Indian entries were few and often biased. There were too few entries on the black american. Because of this, a second edition came out in 1976, and contains entries on all aspects of american history, including: military history, laws and legislation, major Supreme Court cases, major treaties, famous sayings, major organizations in the United States, government agencies, Black history, American Indian history, science and technology, political science, economics, the arts, and general history. |
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| R 342.73 En5L | Encyclopedia of the American
Constitution Second Edition. New York: Macmillan Reference, USA 2000.
This five volume set can be used to find articles on all aspects of the U.S. Constitution. There are articles on constitutional history, and biographies on people to influenced the U.S. Constitution in some way, such as: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John Marshall and Salmon P. Chase. There are also articles on each amendment to the Constitution passed during this early years of the U.S. There are articles on important court cases in the 1789-1848 period, such as: Marbury v Madison (1803), Cohens v. Virginia (1821), Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816), McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Other constitutional and legal issues, such as racial discrimination, impeachment, states rights, dual federalism are included. |
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| R 348.7322 M28L | Major Acts of Congress New York: Macmillan Reference, USA 2004.
This three volume set can be used to find major legislation of the early National period. There are articles on important laws passed in the 1789-1848 period, such as: the Tarrif Act of 1789, Copyright Act of 1790, Coinage Act of 1792, Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850), Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Judiciary Act of 1801, Prohibition of Slave Trade (1807), Missouri Compromise (1820) Indian Removal Act (1830) and the Bankruptcy Act of 1841. |
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| R 301.0973 En3 | The Encyclopedia of American
Social History New York: Scribner, 1992.
Contains essays on the major issues that have dominated historical writing in the past thirty to forty years. The three volume set is divided into fourteen parts: Part 1: Periods of Social Change--contains
essays on the major periods of social change
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| R 975.00321 | The Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, En1 1989.
A scholarly work that provides a convenient access to basic facts and bibliographical data about southern cultural patterns and their historical development. Twenty-four major sections focus on such themes as agriculture, education, ethnic life, law, music, mythic South, politics, recreation, social class, and women's life. |
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| R 978 En1 | Phillips, Charles., ed. The
Encyclopedia of the American West New York: Macmillan Reference
USA; London: Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, 1996.
This encyclopedia covers the area west of the Mississippi River from the age of discovery in the 1500's to the latter part of the twentieth century. |
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| R 355.00973 | Jessup, John E. Ed. The Encyclopedia of the American Military: Studies of the History Traditions, Policies, Institutions, and roles of the Armed Forces in War and Peace. New York: Scribner's, 1994. | ||||||||
| R 324.56 N21 | National Party Conventions,
1831-1992. Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly, 1995
Contains the convention chronology for all conventions since 1831, and also historical profiles on all American political parties, a list of all presidential nominees in each election since 1832, and other convention statistics. |
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| R 330.973 En1 | Porter, Glenn, ed. Encyclopedia
of American Economic History New York: Scribner, 1980.
This three volume set traces the economic history of the United States in the first volume. In Part III it discusses the framework of American economic growth including business cycles, panics and depressions, tariffs, taxation, money supply and agriculture. In Part IV it covers the Institutional framework for the U.S. economy discussing such things as: state and local governments, slavery, central banking, westward movement, and land policies and sales. |
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| R 327.73 En11 | Jentleson, Bruce W., Thomas G.
Paterson, eds. The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
This work is written by both American and foreign scholars, and contains over 1000 articles on various aspects of American foreign policy, such as: biographies of people important in foreign relations, countries, important events, legislation, court cases effecting foreign policy, and more. |
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| R 781.773 N42 | Hickcock, H. Wiley, and Stanley
Sadie, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. New
York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986.
This work is one of the Grove dictionaries of Music, the finest sets on music in the world. This four volume set focuses on American Music, the composers, the performers, instruments developed in America, the music industry, societies, music departments, orchestras, choirs, bands, opera companies, music publishers, and cities with important tradition or contribution to American Music. Also included are entries on patriotic and political music. |
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| R 973.62 Un3f | The United States and Mexico at War: Nineteenth-Century Expansionism and Conflict New York: Macmillan Reference, USA, 1998.
This one volume set can be used to find articles on the topic of U.S. Mexican relations from 1821 to around mid century. There are articles on United States elections, immigration, Indian policy, biographies of important people in U.S. Mexican relations in this time period, important battles in the Mexican War, treaties, the press, and much more. |
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| R 973.46 L93R | The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-Clio, 2002.
This one volume set is "designed to serve as a standard reference to the fully nuanced meaning of the Louisiana Purchase in the history and life of the United States." It contains articles on the people surrounding the Purchase, or who had influence in the area of the Purchase, the geographic features of the land of the Purchase, the Native peoples who inhabited the area of the Purchase, the frontier outposts in the area of the Purchase, and the explorations of the Purchase land area. |
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| R 973.503 En1f | Encyclopedia of the United States In the Nineteenth Century New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
The editor of this four volume set says that the goal of this encyclopedia "is to provide an introduction to the central issues and questions of the nineteenth century." This work "provides comprehensive access to the events, trends, movements, technologies, inventions, cultural and social changes, and the intellectual trends that have shaped America". It contains entries on major laws, cities, states, historical and social terms, political terms and politics, recreation and inventions of the nineteenth century. |
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| R 973.03 En1c | The Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
This three volume set "is an attempt to comprehend the ever-changing character and rich variety of American thought and expression." The front of the first volume shows the chronological orientation of volumes 1 and part of volume 2. The last part of volume 2 and volume 3 contain articles by topic, such as cultural groups, geography, human nature, the political order, the economic order, the social order, and the arts. |
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| R 973 AM3R | Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2005.
This four volume begins by saying that usually the study of war examines the battles won and territory gained or lost. But this four volume set "provides students with a different perspective by examining the profound effect of war upon American society, culture, and national identity." |
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| R 973.03 G85f | The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2004.
This encyclopedia is divided into eight volumes, one volume for each region: The Great Plains Region, The Mid-Atlantic Region, The Midwest, New England, The pacific Region, The Rocky Mountain Region, The South, and The Southwest. Each volume contains "detailed overviews on all elements of culture, with chapters on the following topics: architecture, art, ecology and environment, ethnicity, fashion, film and theater, folklore, food, language, literature, music, religion, sports and recreation. These elements of culture are examined from the beginnings of history to the present. |
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| R 973.5 R25B | American Eras Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
This new set contains the history of the United States divided into periods, with a volume for each period.
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| R 703.0973 En1 | Packard, Robert T. Encyclopedia
of American Architecture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
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| R 200.97303 Q3E | The Encyclopedia of American Religious History
New York: Facts on File, 1996.
This encyclopedia contains the history of religion in America, divided into two volumes. It covers the people important to religious history, and also histories of individual churches, Christian, and non-Christian, that make up American religious history. It also has articles on the key concepts that were important to this history, as well as organizations and other religious terms important to our history of religion. |
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
While there are many biographical
sources of important individuals included later in this bibliography, those
that appear here are collections of biographies in one or several volumes.
| R 810.9 C74 | Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography
Detroit, Mich: Gale Research Company, 1988.
This work presents biographies of major American authors from the colonial period to 1988. Included in each biography is a list of what the author wrote, what the facts of the author's life are, a description of his literary works, and what the response to an author's works are (criticism). |
| R 920.07 D56o | Dictionary of American Biography New York:
Scribner's sons.
This important work was published between 1928 and 1936, and contains over 13,000 biographies of important and significant Americans from the colonial period to 1930. In order to be included in this reference work, a person has to have been dead several years. The first and second supplements included important persons who died between 1930 and 1940. Supplements three through ten included important persons who died between 1940 and 1980.The supplements bring the total number of biographies up to over 19,000. The work has maintained high standards for accuracy and balanced judgment in interpretation. The last volume is a comprehensive index that is divided into several sections: index by subject, birthplace, school or college attended and occupations. |
| R 328.73 Un3bi | Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
1774-1996 Washington, D.C: CQ Staff Directories, 1997.
This work contains the biographies of all people who have served in the United States Congress, and other national congresses before 1789. It also has a list of the senators and representatives from each state for each congress, from the 1st in 1789 through the 104th congress in 1995-1996. Also included are names of those who held the major positions in the House and Senate, such and Speaker of the House, Majority and Minority leaders and clerks and secretaries, doorkeeper, and sergeant at arms of the House and Senate. |
| R 920.073 N21c | The National Cyclopedia of
American Biography New York: J.T. White, 1898-1984.
This large set was begun in 1891 and continued until the 76th one was published in 1984, and contains over 66,000 biographies. Most of the volumes are green, but the last volume, which is an index to the entire set, is brown. |
| R 920.073 W62wa | Who Was Who in America
Chicago: Marquis-Who's Who, 1896-1993
This set contains short biographies on 122,000 persons who died before 1993. The biographies were prepared by the biographies themselves. |
| R 923.5304 B52 | Sobel, Robert, ed. Biographical
Directory of the United States Executive Branch New York:
Greenwood Press, 1990.
This book contains biographies of all presidents, vice-presidents, an cabinet heads of the U.S. government. |
| R920.72 N84A | James, Edward T., ed. Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. |
| R 973.0992 B52 | Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States: 1789-1978 Westport, Conn: Meckler Books, 1978. |
PRIMARY SOURCES
| R 973 Am7a | The Annals of America.
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968. 21 Volumes.
Reproduces documents and writings written at or near the time an event occurred in American History. Very useful to get a "now" perspective of an event or issue as it was occurring. Vol 3: Organizing a New Nation,
1784-1796
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| S 9.12/2 | Treaties and Other International
Agreements of the United States of America
Contains all treaties signed by the United States from 1776 to 1949 |
| ( In Basement Storage) | American State Papers: Documents,
Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States.
Class 1: Foreign Relations, 1818-1828
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| United States Statutes at Large Washington,
D.C: US GPO, 1937--
Contains all laws passed by the United States Congress. The library has the following: Vol 1: All public laws passed between 1789-1799
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| 973 C73d4 | Commager, Henry Steele. Documents of American History. 4th edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 |
| 973.082 C24t | Carter, Clarence Edwin, comp &
ed. Territorial Papers of the United States. Washington,
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934- 28 volumes
This series of twenty eight volumes
contains official papers of various territories of the United States. These
are papers held in the archives of various government agencies, such as:
Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of the Interior,
the Department of War, the U.S. Post Office, the Manuscripts Division of
the Library of Congress, and the Senate and House files. Included are correspondence
and other papers passing between the governor of the territory and the
Federal Government, letters of judges of courts, receivers and registers
of land offices, and petitions of groups or individuals for redress of
grievances, and other papers dealing with territories up through the time
they gained statehood. Range of years is specified in each volume, with
the early to mid-1800's receiving emphasis. There is an index for each
volume.
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| 978 Few | Far West and Rockies
Series
This series presents a selection of previously unpublished diaries, journals, letters, and documents of the explorers, fur traders, overland travelers, gold seekers, settlers and military men who were in the area of the Rocky Mountains and United States west of the Mississippi River from 1820 to 1875. Vol 1: Old Spanish Trail
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| NA R 970.5 Un3r | Annual Report of the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior
This publication contains the annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and annual reports of agents and superintendents of Indians in the various states and territories. The Library has these reports from 1832 to 1931 with some gaps. |
| 973.084 Ad1a | Album of American History
Edited by James Truslow Adams, this five volume set contains photographs, drawings, paintings depicting events of American history from the beginning to 1953. |
| (In Storage) | Annals of Congress
A precursor to the Congressional Globe. Contains the debates and proceedings of the Congress of the United States. The library has: Oct 24, 1791 to Mar 2 1793
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| (In Storage, Basement) | Congressional Globe
(1833-1873)
A precursor to the Congressional Record, these volumes contain the debates and proceedings of the U. S. Congress, including any about slavery (which there were quite a few). Each volume contains an index. Citations to the C. G. may appear in any one of several indexes or bibliographies named earlier. The entire Congressional Globe is available online at the Library of Congress' A Century of Lawmaking Site at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html |
| 917.7 T42e | Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. Early Western Travels
1748-1846. Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1966.
This is a 32 volume set that contains reprints of travel diaries, journals of travelers of the western area of the United States in the late colonial period and early national period . Included are travels of explorers in the areas of the country that became the midwestern states: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, the plains states Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, the Rocky Mountain states, and the far western states of Oregon and California. |
| 973.062 | American Historical Association. Annual Report
of the American Historical Association Washington, D.C: G.P.O.,
1890--
The American Historical Association was organized in 1884, and incorporated by act of the U.S. Congress in 1889. One of the Association's duties assigned by Congress was to report "annually to the Smithsonian Institution concerning the Association's proceedings and the condition of historical study in America." The first proceedings to be published was the proceedings of the fifteenth annual meeting held in December 1899. Each subsequent year contained at least that. In many years there were articles published on different aspects of history. For example, the first volume in 1899 contained such articles as:: "Legal Qualifications for Office in America, 1619-1899", "The First Criminal Code in Virginia" "should Recent European History have a Place in the College Curriculum?" Many of the early volumes contained a report of the Historical
Manuscripts Commission, in which many primary documents were published
in the Annual Report of the Association. Here is a list of some of these:
1899: Letters of John C. Calhoun 1804-1850
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| R 348.73 Un3ca | United States Supreme Court. United
States Supreme Court Reports New York:, Banks & Brothers, Law
Publishers, 1884-1892
This is the official bound edition of the United States Supreme Court decisions. The decisions were compiled by Banks & Brothers in the 1880's and 1890's from earlier volumes that were out of print by the 1890's. It is useful to know the names of the out of print volumes because they are the ones used in official citations of early Supreme Court cases. US Supreme Ct Reports Contains Volume1 Volumes 1-4 compiled by A.J. Dallas, known as Dallas 1-4 These volumes contain the following:
Volumes 2,3 Volumes 1-9 compiled
by William Cranch that cover U.S. Supreme Court Cases from Aug
1801 to Feb 1809
Volume 7, 8,9,10 Volumes 1-16 complied by Richard Peters Jr. that cover U.S. Supreme Court Cases from Jan 1828 to 1842 Volume 11,12,13,14 Volumes 1-16
compiled by Benjamin Howard that cover U.S. Supreme court cases from 1843 to 1853 |
| 917.7 C59L | Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. |
| 973.52 N22 | Dudley, William S., ed. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Washington, DC.: Naval Historical Center, Dept of the Navy, 1985. |
| 917.2 W38a | Webb, James Josiah. Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade, 1844-1847, edited by Ralph P. Bieber. Glendale, Calif: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1931. |
| 326.0924 G19l | Garrison, William Lloyd. Walter M. Merrill, ed. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971-1981. |
| 326.0973 L61d | Documents of Upheaval: Selections from William Lloyd Garrison's the Liberator, 1831-1865 New York:, Hill And Wang, 1966. |
| B Sa51e | Santa Anna, Antonio L`opez de. The Eagle; the Autobiography of Santa Anna. edited by Ann Fears Crawford. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1967. |
| 976.4 Ad1h2 | Adair, A. Garland, and M. H. Crockett, Sr., eds. Heroes of the Alamo, Accounts and Documents of William B. Travis, James Bowie, James B. Bonham and David Crockett, and their Texas Memorials. 2nd ed. New York, Exposition Press, 1957. |
| 973.62 EL5m | Gardner, Mark L., and Marc Simmons, eds. The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. |
| D 214.14/3:W 33 | Watson, Henry Bulls. The Journals of Marine Second Lieutenant Henry Bulls Watson, 1845-1848. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1990. |
| 973.62 R27s | Reid, Samuel Chester. The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico--1846. Philadelphia, J.E. Potter and Co., 1847. |
| 973.628 J64m | Johnston, Abraham Robinson, Marcellus Ball Edwards, and Phillip Gooch Ferguson, edited by Ralph P. Bieber . Marching with the Army of the West, 1846-1848. Glendale, Calif: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1936. |
| 973.628 G35j | Gibson, George Rutledge. Journal of a Soldier Under Kearney and Doniphan, 1846-1847. Edited by Ralph P. Bieber. Glendale, Calif: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1935 |
| 973.628 B38w | Beauregard, G.T. With Beauregard in Mexico. Baton Rouge, Louisiana States University Press, 1956. |
| B M35r | Rodes, Irwin S. Papers of John Marshall, A Descriptive Calendar. University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. |
| The American Negro: His History and Literature
Series
This is a series of over eighty primary and secondary sources written mainly in the nineteenth century that have historical impact. Some of the books in the set that were originally published before 1850 include: |
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| Garrison, William Lloyd. Thoughts on African Colonization. Boston: Garrison and Knapp, 1832. Republished, with an introduction by William Loren Katz, by Arno Press as part of the ANHHLS Series, 1968. | |
| 301.45 C84r | Craft, William. Running a Thousand Miles For Freedom. |
| 326.0922 F58f | Five Slave Narratives; a Compendium Reprinted from copies in the Moorland- Spingarn collection, Howard University and at the New York Public Library. Republished by Arno Press as part of the ANHHLS Series, 1968. |
| 301.45196 F87p | Jay, William. The Free People of Color. Reprinted from three works originally published from 1839 to 1859. Republished by Arno Press as part of the ANHHLS Series 1969. |
| 326.0973 W45am | Weld, Theodore Dwight. American Slavery as it is; Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. First Published in 1939 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Republished by Arno Press, 1968 |
| 917.309 N31 | Negro Protest Pamphlets; A Compendium Reprinted from several protest pamphlets published before the Civil War. Republished by Arno Press, 1969. |
PRIMARY SOURCES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES
General Sources
| 353.03 R39c | A Compilation of the
Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897. 8 Volumes.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Appendix Volume A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Supplement Volume A ten-volume set of selected public
messages, executive orders, and other papers, ending with papers of Grover
Cleveland. The Appendix Volume begins with the first year or so of William
McKinley, and the Supplement Volume continues with the rest of McKinley's
term and contains Theodore Roosevelt through Aug. 1902. James D. Richardson,
a member of the U. S. Congress from Tennessee in the late 1800's, was the
compiler. His preface to each volume gives a survey of the contents.
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Individual Presidents
| 973.3 W27j | Twohig, Dorothy, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793-1797. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981 |
| 973.44 A214d | Butterfield, L. H., ed. Diary and Autobiography
of John Adams. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961. Volume 1: Diary, 1755-1770 Volume 2: Diary, 1771-1781 Volume 3: Autobiography to October 1776 Volume 4: Autobiography, 1777-1780 |
| B J35w | Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Washington,
D.C., Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
of the United States, 1905.
Contains his Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, parliamentary manual, official papers, messages and addresses, and other writings, official and private. 20 vols. |
| 973 J35p | Boyd, Julian P., ed. Papers [of
Thomas Jefferson] Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 1950-
Papers from 1760 to 3 Nov 1790 in 17 volumes. |
| 973.46 J35f | Betts, Edwin Morris, and James Adam Bear, Jr., eds. The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. Columbia, Mo: University of Missouri Press, 1966. |
| 973.510924 M182p | Hutchinson, William T., ed. Papers of James Madison. University of Chicago Press, 1962-1981. Contains papers of James Madison to 1793 in 14 volumes. |
| 973.55 A214n | Nevins, Allan. ed. Diary of John Quincy Adams; American Political, Social, and Intellectual Life From Washington to Polk. New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1928. A selection from the Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, comprising portions of his diary from 1795 to 1848 published by Charles Francis Adams |
| 973.61 P75c | Weaver, Herbert, ed. Correspondence of James K.
Polk. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
Vol 1: 1817-1832 Vol 2: 1833-1834 |
| 815 L63s | Adam, G. Mercer., ed. Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Including Inaugurals and Proclamations. A.L. Burt Company, 1906. |
| B L63unc | Lincoln, Abraham. The Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. |
| B L63Yr | Abraham Lincoln's Autobiography, With an Account of its Origin and History, and Additional Biographical Material. Beacon Press, 1947 |
| 973.5 L63c | Basler, Roy P., ed. Collected Works. [of Abraham
Lincoln] Rutgers University Press, 1953-1955
Vol 1: 1824-1848 Vol 2: 1858-1858 Vol 3: 1858-1860 Vol 4: 1860-1861 Vol 5: 1861-1862 Vol 6: 1862-63 Vol 7: 1863-1864 Vol 8: 1864-1865 |
| 973.81 J63p | Graf, LeRoy P. and Ralph W. Haskins, eds. The Papers
of Andrew Johnson. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1967- Vol 1: 1822-1851 Vol 2: 1852-1857 Vol 3: 1858-1860 Vol 4: 1860-1861 Vol 5: 1861-1862 |
| 973.82 G761p | Simon, John Y., ed. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-1982 Vol 1: 1837-1861 Vol 2: April-September 1861 Vol 3: Oct 1, 1861-Jan 7, 1862 Vol 4: January 8-March 31, 1862 Vol 5: April 1-Aug 31 1862 Vol 6: Sept 1-Dec 8, 1862 Vol 7: Dec 9, 1862- March 31, 1863 Vol 8: April 1--July 6 1863 Vol 9: July 7- Dec 31, 1863 Vol 10: January 1-May 31, 1864 |
| B G76pe | Grant, Ulysses. S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. World Pub Co., 1952. |
OTHER IMPORTANT AMERICANS
| B H18p | Syrett, Harold, ed. Papers of Alexander Hamilton.
Columbia University Press, 1961- 1979. Vol 1: 1768-1778 Vol 2: 1779-1781 Vol 3: 1782-1786 Vol 4: Jan 1787-May 1788 Vol 5: June 1788-Nov 1789 Vol 6: Dec 1789-Aug 1790 Vol 7: Sept 1790-Jan 1791 Vol 8: Feb-Jul 1791 Vol 9: Aug-Dec 1791 Vol 10: Dec 1791-Jan 1792 Vol 11: Feb-Jun 1792 |
| 818 P16w | Conway, Moncure Daniel, ed. Writings of Thomas Paine. G. P. Putnam's Son's 1894-1896. 4 vols. |
| B M35r | Meriweather, Robert L., ed. Papers of John C. Calhoun. University of Carolina Press, 1959-1991. Volume 1 edited by Robert L. Meriwether, Volumes 2-9 edited by William Edwin Hemphill, Volume 10 edited by W.E. Hemphill and Clyde N. Nelson, Volume 10-17 edited by Clyde N. Nelson. SE library has 23 volumes that contain papers to 1846 |
| 973.713 D29p | Monroe, Haskell M., ed. The Papers of Jefferson
Davis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971-1981 Vol 1: 1808-1840 Vol 2: June 1841-July 1846 Vol 3: July 1846-Dec 1848 |
| B C57p | Hopkins, James F., ed. Papers [of Henry
Clay]. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1959- Vol 1: The Rising Statesman, 1797-1814 Vol 2: The Rising Statesman, 1815-1820 Vol 3: Presidential Candidate, 1821-1824 Vol 4: Secretary of State, 1825 Vol 5: Secretary of State, 1826 Vol 8: Candidate, Compromiser, Whig: March 5, 1829 - December 31, 1836 (Ardmore Higher Ed Center) |
MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS
A magazine or journal is something that is published periodically, and so in libraries they are called periodicals. A magazine is a periodical that can be published daily, weekly, or monthly. Magazines usually contain fairly short articles written in a style of writing that is easy to understand. There are usually lots or advertising in a magazine. A journal, however, contains the results of research or experiments done. Usually in a journal article there is data presented about a research project, and the language can be quite technical, and there are few advertisements.
Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective. The term that libraries use for magazines, journals and newspapers, is PERIODICAL
Periodical Indexes
A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.
Here are some periodical indexes that are useful for research in history:
| Basement | Humanities Index
(paper)
Index/database to articles, written 1974 to the present, appearing in several hundred journals in the humanities, including history. CD-ROM version is at the LAN (Local Area Network) station. |
| Internet | Article First (FirstSearch)
This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With over 16,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the present, and is updated daily. |
| Internet | Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975. |
| Internet | H.W. Wilson Select Full Text (FirstSearch)
Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Business Abstracts and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text. |
| Internet | MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) "Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 85,827 biographies, 105,789 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost." |
| Basement | International Index to Periodicals
(paper)
An index to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. Articles written between 1907 and 1964 are indexed. |
| Basement | Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature (paper)
A guide to periodical literature published in 1802-1906. |
| Basement | Social Sciences and Humanities
Index (paper)
Index to articles written 1965-1974 appearing in several hundred journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history. |
| Basement | American Heritage 35-Year
Cumulative Index
Index to the American Heritage magazine from 1954 to 1989. |
NEWSPAPERS AND SELECTED MAGAZINES
AND JOURNALS
| Basement | American Heritage
Well known magazine that has very readable articles of varying length that cover all aspects of United States history. This library has issues from 1954 to the present. |
| Basement | American Historical Review
This very distinguished journal, published by the American Historical Association, contains long scholarly articles on all areas of history. The library has this journal from 1895 to the present. |
| Basement | Civil War History
An excellent journal on Southern History published by the Southern Historical Association. The library has issues from 1935 to the present. |
| Basement | New England Quarterly
The library holds volumes from 1946 to the present. This journal says that it is "a historical review of New England Life and Letters." |
Some Internet Resources: