Georgetown University Library - Subject Guide for American History

America: History & Life   

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1954- .

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

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JSTOR   

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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.

Project Muse   

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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.

Dictionary of American History  

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

Location: Ref. E 174 .D52 2003

American Decades  

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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 Memory  

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

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

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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.

Proquest Civil War Era   

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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.