http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rqs.phtml?subject_id=63 Contact Librarian: Maura Seale en-us Georgetown University Library, 2009 Primary index to research in American and Canadian history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Limit by language, time period, and document type (articles, collections of articles, books, and dissertations). http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=120&infotype_id=29&masterinfotype_id=3 This database includes information from individual soldiers' military and civilian experiences that can be used for statistical and analytical examinations of the Civil War. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=434&infotype_id=29&masterinfotype_id=3 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=414&infotype_id=29&masterinfotype_id=3 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=119&infotype_id=29&masterinfotype_id=3 Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=32&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=69&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 Provides access to almost 250 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and 40 other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. You can search across all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles or just a single title. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=444&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=3330&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 Index to the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States. For 1890 to 1982, use the Readers' Guide Retrospective. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=256&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 Multi-volume, authoritative resource with signed biographies. Bibliographies at the end of each entry point to locations of papers and reliable, book-length biographies. An encyclopedic treatment of American intellectual history. Covers the major concepts and thinkers in traditional thought, as well as important contemporary issues. Entries include suggestions for further reading. A multi-volume encyclopedia with concise articles dealing with the political, economic, social, industrial, and cultural aspects of American history. Ten volumes. Also available online. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=599&infotype_id=3&masterinfotype_id=2 Reference essays examine patterns of American thought and expression on a wide variety of social and intellectual topics. Presents the important scholarly insights and discussions in the field. Includes illustrations, a chronology and bibliographies. Three volumes with a topical and alphabetical table of contents. Contains scholarly articles with bibliographies on numerous aspects of U.S. political history including civil service, armed forces, machine politics, pluralism, and voluntary associations. Broad in scope, this 2-volume encyclopedia provides alphabetically-arranged essays on religious issues, movements, and individuals from the Colonial period onward. Essays include brief bibliographies. 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. Alphabetically arranged sections on foreign, native, and ethnoreligious cultures within the United States. Essays include information on assimilation, language, family dynamics, economic traditions, politics, and contributions. References to significant serials, television stations, organizations and associations, museums and research center, and other sources of information. Two volumes. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=609&infotype_id=3&masterinfotype_id=2 This dictionary provides brief descriptions of people, battles, places, slogans, organizations, and many other aspects of American history. Also available from http://www.library.georgetown.edu/advisor/. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=601&infotype_id=3&masterinfotype_id=2 This series emphasizes social and cultural history. There is a separate volume for each decade of the twentieth century which includes a chronology for the decade. Topics are arranged by broad categories such as, religion, sports, education, media, medicine and health, science and technology, and the arts. Ten volumes. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=607&infotype_id=17&masterinfotype_id=2 This series is similar to American Decades, but covers distinctive eras instead of decades. Eight volumes; in progress. A major, standard bibliography for all time periods and fields of history, including Asian. Includes brief annotations. 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=976&infotype_id=24&masterinfotype_id=4 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/. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=104&infotype_id=24&masterinfotype_id=4 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=585&infotype_id=24&masterinfotype_id=4 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=412&infotype_id=54&masterinfotype_id=7 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=3076&infotype_id=88&masterinfotype_id=11 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=3074&infotype_id=88&masterinfotype_id=11 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=3261&infotype_id=88&masterinfotype_id=11 Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with images scanned from the 19th century volumes. Strengths are education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=597&infotype_id=88&masterinfotype_id=11 Includes approximately 1,200 digitized documents, photographs, drawings, maps, and film clips, as well as links to additional research resources within the National Archives. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=3075&infotype_id=88&masterinfotype_id=11 Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress's Americana collections. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=647&infotype_id=138&masterinfotype_id=11 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=2181&infotype_id=138&masterinfotype_id=11 Documents from colonial times, an electronic journal, and other features. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=593&infotype_id=138&masterinfotype_id=11 Presents key historic documents in full-text. Includes many treaties and serials, such as Foreign Relations of the U. S. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=594&infotype_id=138&masterinfotype_id=11 From Dinsmore Documentation, an online full text collection of scholarly books and articles on American colonial history. All items within this digital collection were originally published before 1923. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=645&infotype_id=138&masterinfotype_id=11 http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=644&infotype_id=138&masterinfotype_id=11 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=3216&infotype_id=19&masterinfotype_id=6 Archive Finder is made up of ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland. It describes over 206,200 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. ArchivesUSA draws from three major information sources: the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS), the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS). Updated quarterly. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=87&infotype_id=140&masterinfotype_id=5 Includes a newspaper title directory (1690 - present) and searchable digitized images of selected local and regional newspapers (1880- 1922). http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=2682&infotype_id=78&masterinfotype_id=5 Fulltext collection of selected, Civil War era articles from the Charleston Mercury, the New York Herald, and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=102&infotype_id=78&masterinfotype_id=5 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. Includes coverage of key events in US history such as the Civil War, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. NOTE: The newspaper was titled the New York Daily Times from 1851-1857. In 1857, its name was changed to the New York Times. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=280&infotype_id=78&masterinfotype_id=5 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=170&infotype_id=78&masterinfotype_id=5 Complete, full text archive of the Wall Street Journal from its first issue on July 8, 1889 through 1991. The Wall Street Journal is the financial newspaper of record. It offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=474&infotype_id=78&masterinfotype_id=5 Complete, full-text archive of the Washington Post, from its first issue on December 6, 1877 through 1993. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=473&infotype_id=78&masterinfotype_id=5 Index of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. In addition, the database provides keyword searching of more than 250,000 pages of full-text by some 6,300 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 1,900 audio and video files and over 13,500 bibliographic records. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=429&infotype_id=51&masterinfotype_id=5 Featuring an integrated and enhanced version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) as its centerpiece, 19th Century Masterfile is rounded out by a number of other general and publication-specific indexes to the contents of nineteenth-century journals, newspapers, and books. The improved electronic version of Poole's brings together essential title and date information not included in the print edition and links it with the over 400,000 citations, providing more comprehensive coverage and making the index much easier to use than the printed volumes. Additional indexes, not part of the original Poole's, are integrated with it into a single web resource. The focus is on Anglo-American sources. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=262&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 Digital images of historically significant American periodicals from 1740 to 1900, including literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and popular magazines. All typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts appear exactly as originally published. Allows searching by article type (e.g., letter, obituary, poetry, recipe, ad, editorial cartoon, review). http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=411&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 A collection of source material providing a documentary history of America. Part I is comprised of 18 text volumes chronologically arranged from 1493 to 1968. Part II is a two-volume conspectus or topical index with essays reflecting an overview of major recurring themes throughout American history. Provides access to post- World War II papers from the CIA, the FBI and many other agencies, which have been gathered from presidential libraries. Major domestic and international events of the post-World War II world are covered, including the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, and the civil rights movement. Documents display in a digital facsimile format or ASCII text. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=204&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 A full-text database of 22 core collections of primary documents acquired by the George Washington University based National Security Archive. The collection has been acquired through extensive use of FOIA. Each core collection is focused on one topic, e.g. Iran-Contra, Terrorism and U.S. Policy. Each topical collection includes diverse policy documents supplemented by contextual and reference material on chronology, glossary and bibliography. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=53&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=3090&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 Contains either the full text or substantial excerpts of over 600 documents. Each is preceded by a brief introductory paragraph. 2 vols. 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. It provides a foundation for research in early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, politics and nearly every aspect of life in early America. When completed, the digital collection will include every item previously published in microform by Readex, plus more than 1,200 additional works located, catalogued and digitized since the microform effort was completed -- more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=476&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 Based on the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), ECCO includes digital images of every page of more than 150,000 significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Covers the fields of history, literature, religion, philosophy, law, geography, fine arts, science and medicine. Georgetown's subscription includes the original ECCO release plus newly discovered material (i.e., new items in ESTC) and previously unavailable titles. (Improvements in scanning technology enabled Gale to digitize works that were too fragile to be handled at the time of ECCO's original production.) The titles in ECCO II cover the same subjects areas as the original collection, with an emphasis on literature, social science and religion. ECCO II includes 46,000 titles with 6.4 million pages from the library holdings of such institutions as the British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland and National Library of Ireland. The remaining material in ECCO II will be available in late 2009 and will contain 3,000+ titles sourced from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Cross-searchable with Early English Books Online (EEBO). http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=495&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 Provides electronic access to all issues of Harper's Weekly (including all illustrations and advertisements) published between 1857 (first issue) and 1912, with the capacity to browse or search by date, by literary genre, and by a person's occupation. Provides four topical indexes: subject, illustrations, literature & publishing, and advertising. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=176&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 Collection of digital facsimile 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=423&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=2968&infotype_id=23&masterinfotype_id=5 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. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=63&resource_id=135&infotype_id=16&masterinfotype_id=10