Research by Subject: History--United States
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America, history and life 
History (from prehistoric times) and culture (incl. popular culture) of the U.S. and Canada from journals (abstracts), books and dissertations (citations). rn
JSTOR
Complete backfiles of core scholarly journals, searchable by journal (1 or more), keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3-5 years.
Project Muse
Full-text scholarly journals in the Humanities, 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, and theater reviews.
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. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile.
Note: Formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile
History Cooperative
Full-text info of interest to historians (journals, books, collections, etc.)
ProQuest
Business, humanities, general information, social life, law etc. ABI/INFORM databases, ProQuest Newspapers, Research Library and several others.
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Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary academic database. Some 1975-current.
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.
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.
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
ProQuest historical newspapers: New York Times 
Complete archive covering 1851-2004, fully searchable cover to cover; full text and full image, including advertising.
ProQuest historical newspapers: Wall Street Journal
Complete archive covering 1889-1987, fully searchable cover to cover; full text and full image, including advertising.
The Ithacan
Historical issues of the student newspapers, 1926-2002.
American Women's History
A research guide for women's issues.
Intute: Arts and Humanities: History
Intute is a service dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cataloguing online resources in the humanities. It includes links to primary and secondary sources. (Formerly Humbul)
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.
Chronology of African-American history : significant events and people from 1619 to the present
Call Number: REF E185 .H64 1991
Chronology contains biographical information on representative African-Amreicans, depictions of significant events, legislation, court decisions, programs, manifestos, and data on social, economic, political and educational milestones.
Facts.com
Information on issues, events, and people. 1940-present. Incorporates World Almanac and Book of Facts.
Amistad Digital Resource
Web site about the civil-rights and black-power movements spanning 1954 through 1975. Includes audio and video clips of civil-rights leaders and links to FBI documents and maps where civil-rights demonstrations took place. A project of Columbia University.
Serials directory
Bibliographic information and current pricing structures for popular serials: U.S. & international titles, incl. newspapers and historical data.
Biography resource center + Complete Marquis Who's Who
Biographical information on people worldwide throughout history across all disciplines.
Biography and genealogy master index
Index of biographical and geneological information on contemporary and historical individuals throughout the world.
American national biography
Bibliographies and articles on persons whose significant actions occurred while living within what is now the United States or whose life or career directly influenced the course of U.S. history. Articles published 2000-present.
Ithaca College Department of History
Link to departmental website.
The Oxford Companion to United States history
Covers from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet—from Columbus to Clinton.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)
Meanings, history and pronunciation for words, present and past; traces the evolution of each word through chronologically arranged quotations.
The 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
Call Number: 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
Call Number: 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
Call Number: 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
Call Number: REF E184.O6 D53 1986
Dictionary of Asian American History: provides information about Asian American and Pacific Americans history.
A 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.
A 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.
ebrary
Over 44,000 full-text ebooks on business & economics, education, technology, humanities, life & physical sciences, law & politics, medicine, social & behavioral sciences, language & literature, and career guidance. Approximately 175 ebooks are single-user access titles; all other ebooks support multiple-user simultaneous use. In order to view, copy, or print from an ebook, you must download and install the ebrary Reader plugin.
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Encyclopedia of the North American colonies
Call Number: 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.
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
Call Number: REF E169.1 .E626 2001
Summary of nineteenth century America.
Encyclopaedia Britannica online
Includes Britannica Book of the Year information.
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century
Call Number: REF E740.7 .E53 1996
Summary of 20th century United States history.
American eras : the revolutionary era, 1754-1783
Call Number: REF E163 .A46 1998
Key information about the revolutionary period.
American eras. Development of a nation, 1783-1815
Call Number: 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
Call Number: REF E165 .A49 1998
Summary of early 19th century United States.
American eras. 1850-1877
Call Number: REF E166 .A48 1997
A summary of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
American eras. Development of the industrial United States, 1878-1899
Call Number: REF E168 .A5118 1997
Information about the United States at the end of the 19th century.
American decades
Call Number: 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
Call Number: 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 African-American culture and history
Call Number: REF E185 .E54 1996
Many biographies with additional essays about events, historical eras, legal cases, areas of cultural achievement, professions, sports and places. Covers from the beginning of the 17th century to the end of the 20th century. Bibliographies included.
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
Call Number: 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 the Confederacy
Call Number: 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.
American Civil War Reference Library
Covers the events and people of the Civil War period,including biographical profiles, an almanac, and primary source materials.
American Revolution Reference Library.
Covers the events and people of the Revolutionary War period, including biographies and primary source materials.
Americans at War.
Places major American conflicts -- from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism -- in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the homefront. Includes biographies and topics such as civil liberties, media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory and national identity, civic celebrations and monumental art, literature, the roles of women and minorities, veterans, science and technology, humor, and music.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Images, biographies and info in a variety of subject areas.
Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
Call Number: 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 600,000 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. Images can be downloaded and combined with personal image collections.
American Memory: Photos and Prints
An historical collection of images reflecting the life in the United States
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Smithsonian Galaxy of Images
More than 10,000 images from the Smithsonian Libraries collections.
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
American Memory
Primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
Ancestry Library Edition
Genealogical information for the U.S. and the U.K., incl. census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.
Note: Not Available 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. 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.
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.
Internet History Sourcebooks
Primary and secondary full text sources divided into ancient, medieval and modern periods of history.
The Annals of America
Call Number: REF E173 .A793
21 volumes of speeches and other primary documents covering the years 1493 to 1986.
The Online Books Page
25,000 e-texts, search by Title, Author, or Subject; browse by LC Call Number.
Library of American Civilization: titles available free on the web
Online full-text for selected titles from the microfiche collection of the Library of American civilization.
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.
Amistad Digital Resource
Web site about the civil-rights and black-power movements spanning 1954 through 1975. Includes audio and video clips of civil-rights leaders and links to FBI documents and maps where civil-rights demonstrations took place. A project of Columbia University.
Historical Statistics of the United States (Online Version)
Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970, Expanded and rev. ed. Quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations.
Historical statistics of the United States
Call Number: REF HA202 .H58
Statistical data about the United States from 1789 to 1970.
Historical Statistics of Black America
Call Number: REF E185 .H543 1995
Mostly statistics from the twentieth century, with some from the 18th and 19th centuries. Extensive documentation of population trends.
U.S. Census Bureau
Social, demographic and economic information. Includes the American FactFinder resource.
Historical Census Browser
Demographic, economic, and social data for the United States from 1790- 1960.
Amistad Digital Resource
Web site about the civil-rights and black-power movements spanning 1954 through 1975. Includes audio and video clips of civil-rights leaders and links to FBI documents and maps where civil-rights demonstrations took place. A project of Columbia University.
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