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	Introduction This guide describes some of the basic resources for research on the history of the United States, but it is not intended to be comprehensive. The basic reference sources listed below should provide you with an introduction and orientation to your topic, with bibliographic suggestions for further reading. For additional assistance with your research, be sure to contact a Reference Librarian. Core Resources Research Databases Reference Materials Web Sources Periodicals Contact Librarian


	Core Resources Companion to American Thought Dictionary of American History, 3d ed. America: History & Life


	Research Databases (Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases) America: History & Life Covers over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide and includes article citations and book/media reviews of special interest to historians of United States and Canadian history and related fields. View: Online Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) is a full-text collection of thousands of books and pamphlets printed in America from 1639-1800. View: Online Annotation Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. View: Online Annotation H-NET Reviews H-Net Reviews is an online scholarly review source for books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. H-Net Reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web site. This format permits reviews to reach scholars with a speed unmatched in any other medium and makes possible discussion between reviewers, authors and readers. View: Online HarpWeek HarpWeek provides online access to Harper’s Weekly, the 19th century "Journal of Civilization." Harper's Weekly is primary source material including the editorials, news stories, illustrations, cartoons, and advertisements that formed American public opinion of the era. View: Online Historical Statistics of the United States - HA202 .H57 2006 The standard source for statistical data on U. S. History, with over 37,000 data sets on topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Includes essays placing the data in historical context. View: Online In Print History E-Book Project Now comprising the full text of over 1500 titles, HEB has expanded to include most humanities disciplines and area studies. Included are works of major importance to historical studies. These books will remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. HEB is growing by over 300 titles a year. View: Online JSTOR JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago. View: Online


	Reference Materials Companion to American Thought - E169.1 .C685 1995 One-volume encyclopedic treatment of key ideas, movements, and thinkers in American history, religion, philosophy, history, literature, and social science. Includes bibliographies. View: In Print Dictionary of American History, 3d ed. - E174 .D52 2003 A multi-volume encyclopedia with concise articles dealing with the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of American history. Includes bibliographies. View: In Print Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History - E169.1 E624 2001 Reference essays which examine American thought and life on a variety of social and intellectual topics. Includes good indexing and bibliographies. 3 volumes. View: In Print Encyclopedia of American Economic History - HC103 .E52 Articles on principal movements and ideas in American economic history. Includes bibliographies. 3 volumes. View: In Print Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2d ed. - E183.7 .E52 2002 Articles on aspects of U.S. foreign relations, including important events, people, and ideas, as well as articles on U.S. relations with specific countries and regions. Includes bibliographies. 3 volumes. View: In Print Encyclopedia of American Social History - HN57 .E58 1993 Articles on aspects of social history, including regional and ethnic subcultures, everyday life and work, popular culture, social protest and problems. Includes bibliographies. 3 volumes. View: In Print Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies - E45 .E53 1993 Covers colonial North America from the Norse settlements (c.1000) through aspects of nineteenth-century New Mexico and Alaska, including non-English colonies. 247 topical essays in three volumes, with good cross-referencing and bibliographies. View: In Print Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century - E169.1 .E626 2001 Articles on events, trends, movements, technologies, inventions, and other aspects of nineteenth-century United States history. Includes bibliographies. 3 volumes. View: In Print Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century - E740.7 .E53 1996 This four-volume set contains 20-30 page articles on various aspects of U.S. history. Each article concludes with a brief bibliographic essay. View: In Print Historical Atlas of the United States - G1201 .S1 H5 2003 One of several atlases of U.S. history, this volume includes maps depicting political, social, cultural, and economic aspects of American history. View: In Print Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 - HA202 .B87 1976 Census Bureau statistics on social, political, economic and geographical topics. Each section includes an introductory essay and annotated list of sources which offer more detail. View: In Print


	Web Sources American Memory American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. It is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. View: Online Documenting the American South A digital publishing initiative that provides images, texts, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture, from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. View: Online Doing History: A Guide to Historical Research A guide to doing historical research, with links to a variety of web sites covering various historical events and eras. Maintained by Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. View: Online Historical Documents (American Memory from the Library of Congress) Includes primary documents in American history, the Federalist Papers, and from the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration. View: Online Making of America, Cornell University A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. View: Online Annotation Making of America, U of M A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. View: Online Annotation Voice of the Shuttle - U.S. History Meta-index of U.S. history Web sites. View: Online Annotation


	Periodicals Directory of History Journals Provides links to English-language journals that publish in the field of history. Maintained by the American Historical Association. Searchable by subject, keyword, or browsable by title. View: Online ejournal locator (SFX) The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library. View: Online Annotation History Cooperative A convenient way to see the full-text of more recent issues of important historical journals. These are made available through Hekman Library's institutional subscriptions, so most of them are not accessible to non-Calvin users. View: Online

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