ORIGINS OF MODERN AMERICA

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CATALOGUE

To find some more books, use the catalogue.
Here are some useful subject headings.
Don't forget that topics can be subdivided by the names of STATES as well as United States.
Published collections of source documents can be found in the catalogue buy adding the term SOURCES to your subject heading search .

United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.........esp Sources
United States History Revolution 1775-1783
United States Foreign relations Great Britain Colonies America
African Americans browse South Carolina, Virginia etc
Women United States History .....browse dates
Women...browse states and regions.....Massachusets....Southern States....New England
Sex role United States History
Indians of North America......browse subdivisions......Government relations.......Wars
United States Social conditions
Slavery United States.....and.......Southern states.....and "font-style: italic">Louisiana, Virginia etc
Franklin, Benjamin
United States Navy History United States History, Naval
United States Economic conditions to 1865
United States Industries History Capitalism United States History
Abolitionists United States Antislavery movements United States
Slaves Emancipation United States......North Carolina
United States History Civil War 1861-1865......browse subdivisions....Causes....Participation, African American.

REFERENCE WORKS

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

General

American Heritage encyclopedia of American history, John Mack Faragher, 1997
Reference collection 973.003 F219a

Dictionary of American history, Thomas L. Purvis, 1995
Reference collection 973.03 P986d

Dictionary of British America, 1584-1783, Mary K. Geiter, 2007
Reference collection 973.203 G3139d

Encyclopedia of American religious history, Edward L. Queen, 2 vols. 2001
Reference collection 200.97303 Q361e

Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history, Thomas Carson, 2 vols. 1999
Reference collection 330.973 C321ga

Oxford companion to American military history, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers, 1999
Reference collection 355.00973 C444o

International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences 2001
also in print at Reference collection 300.3 S638i
good for "big picture" concepts like Slavery, Freedom etc

Regions

New encyclopedia of the American West, ed. Howard R. Lamar, 1998
Reference collection 978.003 L215n

A companion to the American West, ed. W. Deverell, 2004
Reference collection978 D491c

Encyclopedia of Southern culture, Charles Reagan Wilson, 1989
Reference collection 975.003 W747e

Colonial and Revolutionary

A companion to colonial America, ed. D Vickers, 2003
Reference colelction 973.2 V637c

Constitutional Convention of 1787 : a comprehensive encyclopedia of America's founding, John R. Vile, 2006
Reference collection 973.303 V699c

Encyclopedia of colonial and revolutionary America, ed. J. M. Faragher, 1990
Reference collection 973.03 F219e

Historical dictionary of the American Revolution, T. M. Mays, 1999
Reference collection 973.303 M474h

Blackwell encyclopedia of the American Revolution, J. P Greene. 1991
Reference collection 973.303 G811b

Historical dictionary of the American Revolution, Terry M Mays, 1999
Reference collection 973.303 M474h

Historical dictionary of the War of 1812, Robert Malcomson, 2006
Reference collection 973.5203 M243h

Native Americans

African Americans and Slavery

A companion to African American history, ed. A. Hornsby, 2005
Reference collection 973.0496073 H8163c

Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah, 1999
Reference collection 909.0496003 A647a

Historical and cultural atlas of African Americans, Molefi K. Asante, 1991
Reference collection 973.0496073 A798h

Encyclopedia of Black America, W. Augustus Low, 1981
Reference collection 973.049607303 L912e

Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, Junius P. Rodriguez, 2 vols, 1996
Reference collection 306.36203 R696h

Women

Women in early America : struggle, survival, and freedom in a New World, Dorothy A. Mays, 2004
Main collection 305.40973 M4744w

Civil War and Reconstruction

Routledge companion to the American Civil War era, Hugh Tulloch, 2006
Reference collection 973.7 T919r

A companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. Lacy K. Ford, 2005
Reference collection 973.7 F6999c

Historical times illustrated encyclopedia of the Civil War, ed. Patricia L. Faust, 1991
Reference collection 973.703 H673 1991

Historical Atlases - more than just maps!

DATABASES FOR FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Academic OneFile       1980-
Broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.

Academic Search Premier
This database includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals.

JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago.

Project Muse Full text collection of journals from US university presses from the mid-1990s onwards.
You can even search by LC subject, same as you do in the catalogue

America: History and Life is available in print for 1964- 2002
Reference collection 973.05 A512

Bibliographies ( another way to find some journal articles and other references)

WEB SITES

General and gateway sites - explore these!

Library of Congress - American memory. Fabulous site!
Browse collections by topic to locate digitised sources, images etc. or you can even search by keywords.

Richard Jensen's Scholars' guide to the WWW - especially the sections on
History: USA
African-American
and sections
11 - Colonial, Early national
12 - 1800-1850s
15 - Civil War Era
26 - South
28 - West & Frontier
29 - Women

Librarians' index to the internet:
Black resources
United States History
Native Americans
Women

Best of history websites - U.S. History

Specific topics

Archive of early American images is drawn entirely from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library, located at Brown University since 1901. The Library houses one of the world’s outstanding collections of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial period of the Americas, North and South, from 1492 to ca. 1825.

Digital History

Virginia Historical Society

17th Century colonial New England

18th Century History - a web site concerned with American history during the long eighteenth century (1660-1840). The site focuses in particular on the tensions between America and Britain during the build up to the War of Independence.

Empire Online
Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies with hypertext links which to the documentary evidence provided.
Covers  Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania and South Asia. can be searched by names, topics and places.

UNESCO Slave trade archives

Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007

Documenting the American South from the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Peopling North America - population and movements.

Women in America 1820-1842

National Park Service Civil War Web Site

PRIMARY SOURCES

Bibliography of the English colonial treaties with the American Indians : including a synopsis of each treaty, by Henry F. De Puy

Archive of early American images is drawn entirely from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library, located at Brown University since 1901. The Library houses one of the world’s outstanding collections of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial period of the Americas, North and South, from 1492 to ca. 1825.

"First-Person Narratives of the American South" is a collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. The majority of materials in this collection are written by those Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.

American slave: a composite autobiography - Vos. 2-17 consist of transcriptions of narratives prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-38, and deposited in the Library of Congress, where they were assembled under title: Slave narratives, a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves. Joint Store JJ10466-10484
Also online at Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

Nineteenth century documents project from Furman University, South Carolina

Nineteenth Century in print - the making of American in books and periodicals.

Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints

Newspapers are also useful as sources of contemporary comment on events
We also hold older issues of the New York Times on microfilm.
MICROFILM PER 3 New York Times 1857- and index Ref 05 N53y
for another view, try
MICROFILM PER 54 The Times (London) 1785- and index Ref 05 T58a

Journals 1800 -1990 containing contemporary comment will be indexed by
Periodicals index online, with full text links to Periodicals archive online

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