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- United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Dictionaries
- United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Encyclopedias
- United States History War of 1812 Encyclopedias
American National Biography offers portraits of men and women -- from all eras and walks of life, as well as thousands of illustrations, hyper linked cross-references, and links to select web sites.
- The Civil War Dictionary. Mark Mayo Boatner. Rev. ed. New York: McKay, 1988.
- SML, Reference E468 B63 1988.
- Dictionary of American History is the first comprehensive revision of the classic reference source originally published in 1940. 1,500 illustrations and 300 maps have been incorporated into the main body of the work which includes over 4,400 articles ranging in length from 100 to 8,000 words.
- Encylopedia of the Confederacy. Ed. Richard N. Current. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
- SML, Reference E487 +E55 1993.
- Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History contains information either on broad areas or specific topics relating to the Civil War in the United States.
- Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction. Hans Louis Trefousse. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
- SML E668 T66 1991.
- Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War. Donald H. Dyal, with eds. Brian B. Carpenter and Mark A. Thomas. Westport: Greenwood, 1996.
- SML, Reference E715 D93X 1996
- Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Ed. Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
- SML, Reference E468 H57 1986
- Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Charles F. Ritter and John L. Wakelyn. Westport: Greenwood, 1998.
- SML, Reference E467 L43X 1998.
- The United States and Mexico at War: Nineteenth-century Expansionism and Conflict. Ed. Donald S. Frazier. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1998.
- SML E404 +U66X 1998.
- Victorian America, 1876 to 1913. Crandall A. Shifflett. (Almanacs of Life) New York: Facts on File, 1996.
- SML, Reference E168 +S55X 1996.
- Shapers of the great debate on the Civil War : a biographical dictionary / Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap.
- SML, Stacks, E467 .M77X 2005 (LC)
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- America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises bibliographic entries, covering journals published worldwide.
- Andrew Jackson: A Bibliography. Robert V. Remini. Westport: Meckler, 1991.
- SML Z8443 R45x 1991
- The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. David J. Eicher. Urbana: U. of Illinois P., 1997.
- SML, Reference Z1242 +E57X 1996
- The Civil War in the North: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. Eugene Converse Murdock. New York: Garland, 1987.
- SML, Reference Z1242 M87 1987
- The Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson, 1816-1841. Robert V. Remini. Arlington Heights: AHM, 1979.
- SML, Reference Z1236 R44. Also in SML, Andrews Study
- Free Trade and Sailors' Rights: A Bibliography of the War of 1812. John C. Fredriksen. Westport: Greenwood, 1985.
- SML, Reference Z1240 F74 1985
- The Gilded Age, 1877-1896. Vincent P. De Santis. Northbrook: AHM, 1973.
- Bass Z1236 D47. Also in SML, Andrews Study Z1242.8 D4
- Guide to Civil War Books. Domenica M. Barbuto and Martha Kreisel. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
- SML Z1242 B18X 1996
*An annotated selection of modern works on the War Between the States.
- Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, 1840-1861. Don Edward Fehrenbacher. New York: Appleton, 1970.
- SML, Andrews Study Z1236 F34
- Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Newcastle upon Tyme: Avero, 1997.
- *The NSTC Project aims to provide increasingly complete listings of British books printed between 1801 and 1919. British books are taken to include all books published in Britain, its colonies and the United States of America; all books in English wherever published; and all translations from English.
- The Spanish-American War: An Annotated Bibliography. Anne Cipriano Venzon. New York: Garland, 1990.
- SML, Reference Z1243 V45 1990
- The War of 1812: An Annotated Bibliography. Dwight La Vern Smith. New York: Garland, 1985.
- SML, Reference Z1240 S65 1985
- War of 1812 Eyewitness Accounts: An Annotated Bibliography. John C. Fredriksen. Westport: Greenwood, 1997.
- SML Z1240 F747X 1997
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- American periodicals History 19th century
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Accessible
Archives
Accessible Archives is a searchable collection of American newspapers,
containing African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, The Civil War:
A Newspaper Perspective, and Godey's Ladys Book 1830-1880
American Newspapers, 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada. Ed. Winifred Gregory. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1967. SML, Card Catalogue Reference Shelf Z6945 A48 1967 Also in SML, Andrews Study.
Harper's
Magazine Online (1850-present)
Harper's Magazine Online provides electronic access to every page of the
full run of Harper's Magazine, facilitated through the online index.
HarpWeek:
The Civil War Era (1857-1877)
A searchable full-text database of all the pages of Harper's Weekly during
the Civil War Era, Reconstruction I and Reconstruction II with scanned
images, together with a series of indexes.
The
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
The 19th Century Masterfile is an accumulation of indexes to printed materials
from the nineteenth century with coverage from about 1774 to 1920, depending
on the index selected.
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.
Readers
Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-present
Readers Guide offers comprehensive indexing and abstracting of some 375
of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United
States and Canada since 1890.
American
Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
Facsimile images of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and pieces
of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The subjects of these broadsides
range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences
and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills
and town meeting reports and pieces of ephemera that include clipper ship
sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs,
stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political
and private celebrations
American
Civil War: Letters & Diaries
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries include more than 400 sources
of diaries, letters, and memoirs providing access to thousands of views
on almost every aspect of the war.
Early
American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years
of the nineteenth century. It is the continuation of Readex's Early American
Imprints: Series I, this primary source database, based on the bibliography
by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and has been supplemented by
thousands of new items.
Early
American Newspapers Series I, 1690-1876
Historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography
and in additional subsequent bibliographies.
HarpWeek:
The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877)
Harper's Weekly during the Civil War Era, Reconstruction I and Reconstruction
II. The subject index provides information on domestic and foreign news,
editorials, and people.
North
American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides
a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and
Canada between 1840 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and
diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, each
unit in the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range
of disciplines.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950 includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters.
U.S.
Congressional Serial Set
The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is comprised of the bound, sequentially
numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S.
Senate and House of Representatives. This digitized version includes Serial
Set volumes 1-161 (15th-19th Congresses, 1817-1827).
- Andrew Johnson Impeachment Clippings
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School contains digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government, from pre-18th century to the 20th century.
- Political Cartoons of the Lilly Library
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 is compiled by the Library of Congress.
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
vol. 1
vol. 2 - J. W. Randolph's Virginia Report Collection Online includes full-text of Madison's Virginia Report of 1799, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts and other documents.
- The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from antebellum through reconstruction, including books, journals, and original manuscripts.
- American Sunday School Books Digitization Project (Michigan State) is an ongoing effort to digitize 121 American Sunday school books from the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection and the Clarke Historical Library.
Contact Gregory Eow, Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and American Studies,
Research Services and Collections, Sterling Memorial Library.
Updated February 6, 2008