Selected Resources for:
American History

America: History & Life   

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ahl

1954- .

Primary index to research in American history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts of journal articles.

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American Civil War Research Database  

http://0-asp6new.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/cwdb

This database includes information from individual soldiers' military and civilian experiences that can be used for statistical and analytical examinations of the Civil War.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective   

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HSR

1907-1984.

Indexes book reviews and articles from English-language periodicals, including scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields (including sciences into the 1950s), represented in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.

Humanities Full Text   

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HUMFT

1984- .

Indexes the major scholarly English-language journals in the humanities (including history and literature). Under Open Database Selection Area, select Humanities Full Text. For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.

JSTOR   

http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Full text of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent 3-5 years.

Periodicals Index Online   

http://0-pio.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

1770-1995.

An international, interdisciplinary database providing the complete tables of contents for older issues of 3,536 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. PIO covers not only journals published by academic presses but also those journals published as popular reading which now provide valuable research materials for scholars.

Project Muse   

http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/

Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).

Provides access to almost 250 scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Readers' Guide Retrospective  

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=RGR

1890-1982

Use this article database to search for a wide range of topics from general interest and popular magazines of the past such as the Saturday Evening Post and Life.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature   

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=RDGFT

1983-present

Index of popular periodicals from 1984 on.

Location: Ref AI3.R48 and AI3.R496 1890-1996

Historical Atlas of the United States  

Location: LAU Ref Stacks G 1201 .S1 H5 2003

American National Biography  

Authoritative resource with biographies that point to locations of papers and reliable, book-length biographies.

Location: LAU Ref Biog. CT 213 .A68 1999

Companion to American Thought  

An encyclopedia of American intellectual history.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 169.1 .C685 1995

Dictionary of American History  

http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=0684314150&version=1.0&userGroupName=wash43584&source=gale

Contains concise articles dealing with the political, economic, social, industrial, and cultural aspects of American history.

Location: Ref. E 174 .D52 2003

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History  

Includes essays that examine patterns of American thought and expression on a wide variety of social and intellectual topics, including the important scholarly insights and discussions in the field.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 169.1 .E624 2001

Encyclopedia of American Political History  

Contains scholarly articles with bibliographies on numerous aspects of U.S. political history.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 183 .E5 1984

Encyclopedia of American Religious History  

Contains essays on religious issues, movements, and individuals from the Colonial period onward.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks BL 2525 .Q44 2001

Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing  

Alphabetical and thematic lists of entries and a chronological list of historians. Includes essays on individual historians, essays focusing on nations or geographical regions, and topical essays about historical subdisciplines, methods, or important historical debates.

Location: Ref. D 14 .E58 1999

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America  

http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?&contentSet=EBKS&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3470099999&source=gale&userGroupName=wash43584&version=1.0

Essays on various cultures within the United States.

Location: Ref. E 184. A1 G14 1995

Oxford Companion to United States History  

http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t119

Includes brief descriptions of people, battles, places, slogans, organizations, and many other aspects of American history.

Location: Ref. E 174 .O94 2001

American Decades  

http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/gvrl/dispAdvSearch.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=wash43584

This series emphasizes social and cultural history and includes information on topics such as, religion, sports, education, media, medicine and health, science and technology, and the arts. It is organized by decade. For help locating primary sources, try American Decades Primary Sources.

Location: Ref. E 169.12 .A419 1994

American Eras  

This series covers distinct eras in U.S. history.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 169.1 .A47 1979 1997

American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature  

A major, standard bibliography for all time periods and fields of history, including Asian. Includes brief annotations.

Location: Ref. Z 6201 .G95

GEORGE   

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/

Check for books on your topic in GEORGE, the library's catalog. Search by keyword, author, title, or subject heading. To find a book by topic, search by Library of Congress Subject Headings, keywords, or try looking up a title you know and click on "Find Similar Items" to search by the subject headings listed in the book's catalog record.

WorldCat   

http://0-newfirstsearch.oclc.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/autho=100161383;dbname=WorldCat;screen=advanced;done=http://www.library.georgetown.edu;FSIP

WorldCat is a catalog consisting of over 100 million records for books and other materials in over 60,000 libraries. NOTE: Available only to Georgetown University students, faculty, and staff. A publicly accessible version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/.

WRLC Catalog  

http://catalog.wrlc.org/

The catalog of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC): George Washington, American, Catholic, George Mason, Gallaudet, and Marymount Universities, the University of the District of Columbia, and Georgetown University. Georgetown students may borrow directly from WRLC libraries or request items via the WRLC Catalog.

Historical Statistics of the United States  

http://0-hsus.cambridge.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/HSUSWeb/index.do

Colonial times to 2000

Includes most of the statistical series from the Statistical Abstract of the United States. The electronic version is based on the five volume print edition of 2006 and contains a wide range of historical data from the earliest times to the present. Tables cover specific indicators such as employment, income, saving, poverty, construction, housing, consumer price indexes, and others. Additional print copy in Gov. Docs. C3.134/2:C83.

Location: Ref. Desk HA 202 .H57 2006

Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide  

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/presidents/lincoln/

This resource guide compiles links to digital materials related to Lincoln such as manuscripts, letters, broadsides, government documents, and images that are available throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on Lincoln and a bibliography containing selected works.

Early Americas Digital Archive  

http://mith2.umd.edu/eada/

1492-1820

The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.

Internet Archive  

http://www.archive.org/index.php

The Internet Archive offers permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. It includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Includes Project Gutenberg.

Making of America  

http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, including 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with images. Strengths are education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults  

http://www.digitalvaults.org/

Includes approximately 1,200 digitized documents, photographs, drawings, maps, and film clips, as well as links to additional research resources within the National Archives.

American Memory  

http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress's Americana collections.

American Presidency Project  

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

A broad collection of the most significant documents of the presidency. Search here for public papers, State of the Union addresses, inaugural addresses, press conferences, executive orders, proclamations, signing statements, debates, convention speeches, and much more.

Archiving Early America  

http://earlyamerica.com/

Documents from colonial times, an electronic journal, and other features.

Avalon Project--Yale University Law School  

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Full-text key historic documents including treaties and serials, on topics such as U.S. Foreign Relations.

Classics of American Colonial History  

http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-1.htm

From Dinsmore Documentation, an online full-text collection of scholarly books and articles on American colonial history originally published before 1923.

Virtual Library - History - United States  

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/index.html

Directory of links to various time periods and topics in American history.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996  

http://0-infoweb.newsbank.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/?db=FBISX

The digitized, full-text version of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996. Includes translations of foreign radio and television broadcasts as well as selected foreign news, periodical articles and government statements. Search by geographic region, article type or publication title. Browse "Events" to see chronological coverage of topics of interest. Coverage is continued by the World News Connection database. Content release to be completed by Summer 2009.

Archive Finder   

http://0-archives.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Provides information on primary source materials from over 4,800 archival and manuscript repositories in the United States.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers  

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

Includes a newspaper title directory (1690 - present) and searchable digitized images of selected local and regional newspapers (1880- 1922).

Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective  

http://0-www.accessible.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/search/prdcls.asp?s=525842350

November 1860 - April 1865

Full-text collection of Civil War era (1860-1865) articles from the Charleston Mercury, New York Herald, and Richmond Enquirer.

New York Times Historical   

http://0-www.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/pqdauto?COPT=U0ZEPTImU01EPTQmSU5UPTAmREJTPTFBQ0Q@

1851-2005

Complete, full-text archive of the New York Times, from its first issue on September 18, 1851, through 2005, with coverage of national and international news. Brief tutorial on how to use this resource available here.

Location: Ref A121.N44 1851- .

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Niles' Register: Cumulative Index 1811-1849   

http://old.library.georgetown.edu/service/cdnet/app.cfm?appname=NilesRegister

1811-1849.

Indexes articles that appeared in the Niles publications: The Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register. Published in Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia, with national readership, the Register was an influential, widely-read newsweekly. Citations are for the volume and page which is on microfilm in Lauinger Library.

Wall Street Journal Historical   

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTFhY2MmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=5600

1889-1991

Complete, full-text archive of the Wall Street Journal from its first issue on July 8, 1889 through 1991. Brief tutorial on how to use this resource available here.

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Washington Post Historical   

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTI2OGEmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=5604

1877-1993

Complete, full-text archive of the Washington Post, from its first issue on December 6, 1877 through 1992. Brief tutorial on how to use this resource available here.

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Oral History Online  

http://0-www.alexanderstreet2.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/orhilive

Index of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world, with keyword searching of more than 250,000 pages of full-text by 6,300 individuals. It also contains links to 1,900 audio and video files and over 13,500 bibliographic records.

19th Century Masterfile   

http://0-poolesplus.odyssi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

19th Century Masterfile includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) as well as a number of other indexes to the contents of nineteenth-century journals, newspapers, and books. The focus is on Anglo-American materials.

Location: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature Ref AI3 .P7

American Periodicals Series Online (1740 to 1940)   

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/pqdweb?RQT=575&TS=1089143595&clientId=5604&DBId=5197&LASTSRCHMODE=2

1740 - 1940

Digital images of historically significant American periodicals from 1740 to 1940, including literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and popular magazines.

Annals of America  

A collection of primary sources. Part I is comprised of 18 text volumes chronologically arranged from 1493 to 1968. Part II has essays on major themes in American history.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 173 .A793

Declassified Documents  

http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/servlet/DDRS?locID=wash43584

1945-1970's.

Provides access to post-World War II papers from the CIA, FBI, and many other agencies, which have been gathered from presidential libraries.

Digital National Security Archive   

http://0-nsarchive.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

20th century.

A full-text database of 22 core collections of primary documents acquired by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive through FOIA. Each collection is focused on one topic and includes policy documents supplemented by contextual and reference material on chronology, glossary and bibliography.

Discovering American Women's History  

http://library.mtsu.edu/digitalprojects/womenshistory.php

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.

Documents of American History  

Contains either the full text or substantial excerpts of over 600 documents. Each is preceded by a brief introductory paragraph. 2 vols.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks E 173 .D59

Early American Imprints (Series I): Evans, 1639-1800  

http://0-infoweb.newsbank.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/?db=EVAN&s_startsearch=customized

Based on the Evans American Bibliography, this collection contains the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States or in the British American colonies from 1639 through 1819.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)   

http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/servlet/ECCO?locID=wash43584

18th century

Full-text digital images of 150,000 books published in the U.S. and Great Britain during the 18th Century.

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era, Reconstruction I & II and Gilded Age I (1857-1912)  

http://0-app.harpweek.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

1857-1912

Provides full-text access to all issues of Harper's Weekly (including illustrations and advertisements) published between 1857 and 1912, with the capacity to browse or search in a several ways.

Making of the Modern World  

http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/servlet/MOME?locID=wash43584

Collection of digital images of 61,000 works of literature on economics and business published from 1450 through 1850. Covers commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

Proquest Civil War Era   

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU2MmEmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=5604

1840-1865

Contains nearly 2,000 slavery, anti-slavery, and Civil War pamphlets and the complete runs of eight regional newspapers covering 1840-1865. Cross-searchable with other historical newspapers and the American Periodicals Series.

RefWorks  

http://0-www.refworks.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/refworks

RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies.