Hekman Library: American History: Find Articles and Databases

Recommended Databases

JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of full-text articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from nearly every discipline taught at Calvin. Coverage for each journal begins with the first volume, with coverage ending for most titles three and five years ago. A growing number of journals now have coverage up to the present.
H-NET Reviews
H-Net Reviews is the largest online professional reviewing archive, with thousands of scholarly reviews for books in the Humanities and Social Sciences, offered under Creative Commons licensing, commissioned by professional review editors, written, edited, copyedited, and published in an original online system, cataloged by the Library of Congress, and available on web, email, and in PDF.
Historical Statistics of the United States
The standard source for statistical data on U. S. History, with 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.
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans is a full-text collection of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639-1800. It is a definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans is a full-text collection of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639-1800. It is a definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.

Series I is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, catalogs, laws, maps, narratives, novels, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches and treaties.

Topics covered include agriculture, capital punishment, commerce, education, foreign affairs, French & Indian wars, medicine, military operations, religious thought, revolutionary war, slavery, suffrage, temperance, trials, women, and work.
Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819, is a definitive resource for teaching and researching the Early National Period in American History. This full-text digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America during the first two decades of the 19th century. Subjects covered range from history, literature and culture to politics, government and society.

Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first 19 years of the 19th century. It also includes published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public.

Through this database, students and scholars can research westward expansion, the development of American arts (literature, music, painting, etc.), and the progression of American political thought.

Subjects include the following: 12th Amendment, abolitionism, canals, Embargo Act, Hartford Convention, Lewis & Clark Expedition, Louisiana Purchase, nationalism, Panic of 1819, Tippecanoe, Treaty of Ghent, and the War of 1812.