History--United States

Making of America (Cornell)
Primary sources in American social history from the 19th century; esp. education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Collaborative project with the University of Michigan.

General OneFile
Current journal and news information in humanities, education, business, science, art, politics, economics, social sciences, law, health care, computers, technology and environmental issues.

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database which includes a large collection of peer-reviewed journals in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.  Coverage varies, but begins in the 1990s for most journals.

History Cooperative
The History Cooperative brings together several nationally known journals with a focus on American history. The site also includes access to the Booker T. Washington papers. The Web site includes the full text of the most recent journal issues. For full text of back issues, refer to JSTOR. (Updates vary)

Project Muse
Full-text scholarly journals in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Mathematics; Coverage varies by journal but generally only 2-3 current years.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982. Use to research contemporary writings on general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, education, history, sports, food, science, theater reviews, and film reviews.

Making of America (University of Michigan)
Primary sources in American social history from the 19th century: esp. education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Collaborative project with Cornell.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals on all subjects in many languages.

Ithaca College history journal

JSTOR
Complete backfiles of core scholarly journals, searchable by journal or discipline. Files do not include the latest 3-5 years. The content is delivered as page images.

ProQuest Research Library
From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 5,060 titles—over 3,600 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

New York Times (1851-2007)
Search the NY Times from cover to cover and view the full text and full image, as well as advertising. Search for names, events and concepts. See a summary of the article as well as a PDF image of the article or the entire page of the newspaper.

Wall Street Journal (1889-1993)
Includes the full text, full image, and advertising. Search for names, events and concepts. See a summary of the article as well as an image of the article or the entire page of the newspaper. Use the Date option at the bottom of the screen to limit your search to particular dates. 

American Women's History
A research guide for women's issues.

MAAP: Mapping the African American Past
A site created for the study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York City from the early 17th-century through the recent past. Browse locations in New York and read profiles of people and events associated with these locations. The site includes film and music clips; photographs, documents, and maps.

National Museum of African American History and Culture
A virtual collection for scholarship and education created in advance of the Smithsonian museum which is slated to open in 2012.

Facts on File World News Digest
Facts on File World News Digest provides Information on issues, events, and people from 1940 to the present. Features include country profiles, primary documents, key issues, newsmaker profiles, and newspaper editorials. The database incorporates World Almanac and Book of Facts.

Rumsey Historical Map Collection

American National Biography
Biographical articles that trace a person's life through the sequence of significant events as they occurred from birth to death. Content includes images, contextual or explanatory information, descriptive bibliographies,  hyperlinked cross-references and links to select web sites.

note: LIMITED TO ONE SIMULTANEOUS USER ACCESS

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History - 2nd edition
Covers all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day in the U.S. and throughout the Western hemisphere. Articles are signed by experts in the field and are accompanied by a selected bibliography. The appendix contains statistical data and a selection of primary source documents.  Online version is the 2nd edition, c2006.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)
Meanings, history and pronunciation for words, present and past; traces the evolution of each word through chronologically arranged quotations.

Oxford Companion to American Military History
Entries range from brief factual pieces to extensive essays and examine every major war from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf. Includes entries on acts of Congress and on diplomatic policies; on peace and antiwar movements; on war in film, literature, music, and photography; and on war viewed through the disciplinary lenses of anthropology, economics, gender studies, and psychology.

American culture after World War II
Print Location: REF E169.12 .A418 1994
Brief entries about people, places, movements and trends in the culture of the United States in the latter part of the 20th century.

Dictionary of United States economic history
Print Location: REF HC102 .O57 1992
Contains more than 1200 concise entries on a broad range of topics relating to economic history of the United States, including individuals, legal information and events.

Historical dictionary of the Gilded Age
Print Location: REF E661 .H59 2003
Brief entries with information about individuals, movements, legal cases, events. Brief bibliographies included with each entry.

Dictionary of Asian American History
Print Location: REF E184.O6 D53 1986
Dictionary of Asian American History: provides information about Asian American and Pacific Americans history.

Dictionary of Contemporary World History (Oxford Reference Online)
Provides in-depth coverage of the major historical figures and events from 1900 to the present day. Extensive surveys of every country are included with detailed analytical entries covering political and military leaders, political parties, international organizations, and acts of war.

Dictionary of World History
This wide-ranging dictionary includes biographies of key figures in world history, historical summaries for each country, and entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and key battles and places. From Oxford Reference.

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century
Print Location: REF E740.7 .E53 1996
Summary of 20th century United States history.

Encyclopedia of the New American Nation
A survey of the formative years of the United States, starting just prior to the American Revolution and ending with the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829. Presents 671 alphabetically arranged entries focusing on the major political markers and milestones, as well as the art, music, literature and daily life, of this period.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Source for general information, short videos and video clips that can be downloaded, World Data Analyst (statistical information on countries), interactive world atlas, Dictionary of Quotations, and Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus.

Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia
An online reference source that explores the influences of Africa and people of African descent on the culture of the Americas and the interconnections between the Americas and Africa.

Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora
Covers geography, cultural and political movements, personalities, and theories.  Treats a wide variety of topics, including Europe and the African world, slavery, and griots of West Africa, as well as more contemporary subjects such as hip-hop and the Nation of Islam.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History - 2nd edition
Covers all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day in the U.S. and throughout the Western hemisphere. Articles are signed by experts in the field and are accompanied by a selected bibliography. The appendix contains statistical data and a selection of primary source documents.  Online version is the 2nd edition, c2006.

Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
Print Location: REF DT14 .A37435 1999
A concise encyclopedia covering the history of the people of Africa as well as the experiences of African Americans.

Encyclopedia of American Jewish History
Covers both religious and secular aspects of American Jewish life. It examines the European background and immigration of American Jews and their impact on the professions and academic disciplines, mass culture and the arts, literature and theater, and labor and radical movements. It explores Zionism, antisemitism, responses to the Holocaust, the branches of Judaism, and Jews' relations with other groups, including Christians, Muslims, and African Americans. The encyclopedia covers the Jewish press and education, Jewish organizations, and Jews' participation in America's wars.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
Covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. A collaboration of nearly 200 contributors from academia, industry, and the culinary world, the articles treat regions, people, ingredients, companies, advertising, historical eras, holidays and festivals, and political, scientific, and economic currents pertinent to American cuisine.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
International in scope and spanning all time periods of human history, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries. Articles range from 500-word entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders to overarching, 8,000-word essays on markets, industries, and labor.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Contains over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Images, biographies and info in a variety of subject areas.

Encyclopedia of the North American colonies
Print Location: REF E45 .E53 1993
Substantive essays on cultural, political, financial, social aspects of the colonial period of North America, including European and African immigrants as well as Native Americans. Bibliographies included.

American eras : the revolutionary era, 1754-1783
Print Location: REF E163 .A46 1998
Key information about the revolutionary period.

American eras. Development of a nation, 1783-1815
Print Location: REF E169.1 .A44 1997
Summary of early years of the United States.

American eras : the reform era and eastern U.S. development, 1815-1850
Print Location: REF E165 .A49 1998
Summary of early 19th century United States.

American eras. 1850-1877
Print Location: REF E166 .A48 1997
A summary of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

American eras. Development of the industrial United States, 1878-1899
Print Location: REF E168 .A5118 1997
Information about the United States at the end of the 19th century.

American decades
Print Location: REF E169.12 .A419
A decade by decade analysis of politics, events and culture of the United States in the 20th century.

St. James encyclopedia of popular culture
Print Location: REF E169.1 .S764 2000

Substantive essays and brief entries on all aspects of popular culture in the United States during the 20th century. Most include bibliographies.

Encyclopedia of the Confederacy
Print Location: REF E487 .E55 1993
Brief entries and some longer essays; a social, cultural and political overview of the South during the years of the Confederacy's existence. Includes bibliographies.

Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
Print Location: REF E184 .J5 J48 1992
Substantial articles on central themes of Jewish history and culture, with brief entries for personalities and events.

ARTstor
Database of more than 1,000,000 digital images representing visual and material culture across cultures and time periods. Documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. ARTstor tools enable the ability to save groups of images online for personal and classroom use. IC's Visual Resources Collection (VRC) of over 20,000 images is now available. Look for the Ithaca College-Visual Resouces Collection link in the lower middle section of the page.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Features historic maps as well as maps that are of current interest (for example, sites of natural disasters, political turmoil, etc.).  Historic maps include digitized maps of U.S. cities, national parks, and monuments.

AP Images
A database of over 160 years of history as witnessed by The Associated Press. Photos: more than 3.6 million photographs from 1825 to today, with about 3,000 new photos added every day.  Graphics: more than one hundred thousand graphics, including maps, timelines, logos and graphs.  Audio: over 4,500 hours of audio clips from the 1920s forward.  Links to hourly newscasts on the home page under the audio tab.

Note: This database may be used for educational purposes only. Images may not be posted on the Web or otherwise made available electronically to anyone outside the Ithaca College community. These images may not be republished or distributed in newspapers, newsletters, magazines, brochures, catalogs, yearbooks, calendars, posters, or similar materials.

NYPL Digital Library
Images digitized from the collections of the New York Public Library, includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, and illustrated books. Images may be downloaded 'for a wide range of educational, creative, and research purposes'.  High resolution images may be obtained for personal or commercial if permission is obtained from the NYPL Photographic Services and Permissions division.

American Memory: Photos and Prints
An historical collection of images reflecting the life in the United States

SIRIS Image Gallery (Smithsonian)
The Image Gallery includes over 266,300 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Includes digitized images from the collections, online exhibits and information about the collections of the Schomburg Center at the New York Public Library.

Harvard University - Social Museum Image Collection
Images from Harvard's Social Museum that pertain to the voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

Beinecke Library Digital Images Online
Searchable database of ca. 21,000 scanned images from the Beinecke Library's collections at Yale University. Also includes access to the Marinetti Libroni: a searchable database of ca. 23,000 press clippings and images from F.T. Marinetti's scrapbooks on Futurism.

Built in America (Historic American Buildings Survey & Historic American Engineering Record)
These collections document America's built environment in multiformat surveys comprising more than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
A collection of electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources.

UCLA Library Digital Collections
Image Collections included: AIDS posters, Architecture & Urban Design, History of Los Angeles, Primary Care Research Projects, Japanese American Relocation, Arabic & Persian Manuscripts, Sheet Music Consortium, Mexican & Mexican-American Musical Recordings

Women working, 1800-1930
Digital versions of books, pamphlets, and consumer trade catalogs; manuscripts, and photographs from Harvard University libraries, archives, and museums. Focuses on women's roles in the U.S. economy between the early 19th century and the Great Depression.

Researcher's Toolbox (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division)
Website provides information and methods for exploring image history, processes, content, and meaning.  Includes a VIsual Literacy exercise and information on dating photographs based on clothing and portraiture styles.

Exploring the Early Americas
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. It provides insight into indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, and the pivotal changes caused by the meeting of the American and European worlds. The exhibition includes two extraordinary maps by Martin Waldseemüller created in 1507 and 1516, which depict a world enlarged by the presence of the Western Hemisphere.

New York Historical Society Slavery Collection
Portal to nearly 12,000 pages of source materials documenting the history of slavery in the United States, the Atlantic slave trade and the abolitionist movement.

Ancestry Library Edition

Comprehensive resource for genealogical and historical research: Includes records from the United States census; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, and more. Similar information is also available for the United Kingdom, Canada and some European countries. 

note: Not Accessible from Off-Campus

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Women's diaries and letters, much previously unpublished; incl. biographies and extensive annotated bibliography of sources in the database. From Alexander Street Press.

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Diaries, letters and memoirs of previously unpublished manuscripts; also biographies. From Alexander Street Press.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters; for ex. one can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron 1650-1700. Also includes prints, drawings, paintings, maps, and photographs. From Alexander Street Press.

Black Thought and Culture
Non-fiction published works by leading African Americans; also interviews, journal articles, letters and other fugitive material. From Alexander Street Press.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
Letters, diaries, oral histories, interviews & personal narratives providing a unique, personal view of immigration to America and Canada 1800-1950. In selected cases, users can hear the actual audio voices of immigrants. From Alexander Street Press.

In the First Person
Links to collections of oral history in English from around the world. Includes letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and other personal narratives. From Alexander Street Press.

CQ public affairs collection
Vital issues, statistical and historical analysis, historic documents, primary source materials and a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas.

Making of America (Cornell)
Primary sources in American social history from the 19th century; esp. education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Collaborative project with the University of Michigan.

Making of America (University of Michigan)
Primary sources in American social history from the 19th century: esp. education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Collaborative project with Cornell.

Women working, 1800-1930
Digital versions of books, pamphlets, and consumer trade catalogs; manuscripts, and photographs from Harvard University libraries, archives, and museums. Focuses on women's roles in the U.S. economy between the early 19th century and the Great Depression.

American Memory: Century of Lawmaking
Full-text of U.S. Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1875 including the Statutes at Large, American State Papers, U.S. Serial Set, Congressional Globe & Record, House and Senate Journals, and letters and journals from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention.

American State Papers, 1789-1838
The legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The volumes cover foreign relations, Indian affairs, commerce, public lands, and military affairs.

Documenting the American South
A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

North American Slave Narratives
Books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

American Presidency Project
A digital archive of the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States from Hoover to Bush (1929 to present); see also IC Library stacks at: J80 .A283. The site also includes: inaugural addresses, radio addresses, fireside chats, debates, convention speeches, and party platforms.

Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

World War I Document Archive
Archive of primary documents from World War One - includes diaries, treaties, conventions, and images.

Internet History Sourcebooks
Primary and secondary full text sources divided into ancient, medieval and modern periods of history.

Annals of America
Print Location: REF E173 .A793
21 volumes of speeches and other primary documents covering the years 1493 to 1986.

Online Books Page
25,000 e-texts, search by Title, Author, or Subject; browse by LC Call Number.

Library of American Civilization
Online full-text links to scanned Google Books editions for selected titles from the microfiche collection of the Library of American civilization.

Discovering American Women's History Online
Links to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
 Database containing basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives. 

Historical statistics of the United States
Print Location: REF HA202 .H58
Statistical data about the United States from 1789 to 1970.

U.S. Census Bureau
Social, demographic and economic information. Includes the American FactFinder resource. USA Counties is a subdvision that contains over 6,500 data items.

Social Explorer (Public Edition)
Website provides access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present, data can be presented in map or report format.

Historical Statistics of Black America
Print Location: REF E185 .H543 1995
Mostly statistics from the twentieth century, with some from the 18th and 19th centuries. Extensive documentation of population trends.

Historical Census Browser
Access to summary level demographic, economic, and social data collected by the U.S. Census from 1790 to 1960. Database generates longitudinal tables and maps. Topics covered: popuiation, education, ethnicity, economy, slave population, and place of birth.

Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008

From the Museum of the Moving Image, visitors can stream political ads through history. Site includes lesson plans for high school teachers and links to online resources.