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. | Fireside, 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 | Callow ay, 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 En51 | Encyclopedia of the American
Constitution Macmillan: Collier Macmillan, 1986.
This five volume set can be used to find how the reconstruction period affected 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 different clauses in the constitution that deal with the economy, such as the commerce clause, public purpose doctrine, punitive damages. There are articles on important laws affecting the economy in some way, such as the Gold Reserve Act, Tariff Act, Omnibus Act, Prohibition of Slave Trade Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Right-To-Work Laws, and Sherman Antitrust Act. There are also important supreme court cases effecting the economy, such as: Red Lion Broadcasting v Federal Communications Commission, Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad Company. Other constitutional and legal issues, such as racial discrimination, impeachment, states rights, dual federalism are included. |
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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 There are articles on all kinds of things that had an economic impact, such as: railroads, farming, gambling, fur trade, homesteading, mining, medicine, lumber industry. Also important are the laws that effected the economy of the West, such as the Homestead Act, The Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, and the Mining Law of 1872, and the Stock Raising Homestead Act of 1916 |
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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.
Since the military and military actions have an effect on the economy, this encyclopedia is included in this bibliography. |
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| R 330.9 G79 | Magill, Frank N. Great Events from History: Business and Commerce Series
This five volume set contains great events in the business world that happened from 1897 to 1980. For every event given, it gives a summary of the event, the impact of the event a list of the main characters and a bibliography of important sources. |
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| 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 970.02 En2 | Cooke, Jacob Ernest, ed. Encyclopedia of the North
American Colonies New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1993.
This three volume set traces the history of the North American Colonies. It is divided into seventeen parts: Part I: The American Context, Part II: Old World Expansion, Part III: Colonial Settings 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 | Kurian, George; Miles Orvell; Johnnella E. Butler; Jay Mechling, eds. Encyclopedia of American Studies New York: Grolier Educational, 2001.
AMerican Studies is a discipline that tries to describe the cultures of the United States, which covers a vast range of disciplines. Topics included in this multi-volume set that have something to do with the economic history of the United States include: Advertising, agriculture, American Dream, Affirmative action, Coca-Cola, fashion, frontier thesis, health care, Labor movement, capitalism, materialism, media, mining, muckraking, New Deal, Robber Baron, strike, trusts, Wall Street, World War I, World War II |
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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 330.973 En1 | Porter, Glenn. ed. Encyclopedia of American Economic History New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980 Part I of this three volume set contains the historiography of American Economic History, and Part II contains a chronological history of American Economic History. Part III contains chapters on the framework of American Economic growth, such as: business cycles, panics, depressions, productivity, prices and wages, foreign trade, agriculture, marketing, manufacturing, money supply, tariffs, and taxation. Part IV contains articles on the institutional framework or the economy, with chapters on the law and political institutions, state and local governments, labor organizations, central banking, government management of the economy, and organized business groups. Finally, Part V is on the social framework of the economy, with chapters on socialism, imperialism, military-industrial complex, education, urbanization, medicine and public health, distribution of income and wealth. |
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| R 338.709 En1r | Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography.
New York: Facts on File, 1988-1992
This set contains articles on the business history of the United States. It is divided into eight volumes:
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| R 973.503 En1f | Finkelman, Paul. Ed. Encyclopedia of The United States in the Nineteenth Century New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. This encyclopedia covers many aspects of nineteenth century history in the United States. Aspects dealing with economics include: Advertising, agriculture, banking and finance, book publishing, brewing and distilling, city and regional planning, cities and urbanization, foreign investment, electricity, fur trade, Interstate Commerce, Industrialization and the market investment and capital formation, Labor force, merchandising, meatpacking, Panics and depressions, populism, poverty, railroads, slavery, steel and steel industry, stock markets, and taxation and public finance. |
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| R 973.003 En1 | Kutler, Stanley. Ed. Encyclopedia of The United States in the Twentieth Century New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. This encyclopedia covers many aspects of twentieth century history in the United States. This set is organized differently than the Encyclopedia of the Nineteenth Century. This set is organized into Six Parts: The American People, Politics, Global America, Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Economy, and Culture. The Economy takes up all of Volume 3 of this four volume set. |
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| R 973.917 H62 | Olson, James, ed. Historic Dictionary of the New Deal: From Inauguration to Preparation for War New York: Greenwood Press, 1985. | ||||||||||||||||||
| R 973.910321 H62 | Bruenker, John D. Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. | ||||||||||||||||||
| R 973.91 OL8h | Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the 1920's: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933 New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. |
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| R 307.7640973 EN1G | Goldfield, David, ed. Encyclopedia of American Urban History Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Pub, 2007. This encyclopedia covers the interdisciplinary field of urban history. It icovers topics such as: biographies, different important cities in the history of the United States, doctrines, Actions, movements and religions, education and schools, finances and commerce, housing, race, transportation, and women. |
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| R 307.76097303 En1s | Shumsky, Neil Larry, ed. Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-Clio, 1998. This encyclopedia contains articles on all aspects of urban life in the United States, such as crime, education, law, commerce, recreation and more. Each article also contains the history of all aspects of urban life. |
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| R 306 G85I | Inge, M. Thomas, and Dennis Hall, eds. The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002. This four volume set contains articles on most aspects of modern popular culture. Each article contains a historical outline section, then a section which contains the major reference works published on that topic, then a critical guide that outlines other sources of interest on the topic, then a description of existing research centers or collections of primary or secondary sources on the topic, and then a bibliography. |
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.2 |
| 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. |
| R 923.38 In4c | Ingham, John N., and Lynne B. Feldman. Contemporary American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary New York: Greenwood Press, 1990 This volume contains biographies of business leaders from World War II to about 1970. |
| R 331.880922 F49b | Fink, Gary M., ed. Biographical Dictionary of the American Labor Leaders. New York: Greenwood Press, 1974. |
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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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 338.76223382092 R 682c | Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr.. New York: Random House, 1998. |
| 332.092 M848c | Canfield, Cass.The Incredible Pierpont Morgan: Financier and Art Collector New York: Harper & Row, 1974. |
| 322.J77r | Josephson, Matthew. The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1934. |
| 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. |
| 973.81 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 |
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 | Meriwether, 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 indexs 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." |
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