History 300 Resources - Fall 2007
Databases
- Full-text articles from 160 scholarly journal titles including more than 2,000,000 full-text articles on a wide range of topics. Both current articles and extensive backfiles are available.
- Full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals in the social science, humanities and arts.
- Access to over 4,000 primary documents; more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journals covering U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
New York Times - Historical (ProQuest)
- Complete full text coverage of The New York Times newspaper from 1851–2004. Coverage includes advertisements, comics, editorials, graphics, maps and photos. Articles are available for download in PDF format.
The State Newspaper - A DISCUS Database
- Coverage from 1987 to present, this database contains all of the news, features, sports and entertainment articles written by the staff at the newspaper and provided by major wire services.
Print Resources
- Use the Online Catalog to find books in the USCA library or other USC system libraries
- American Immigrant Cultures (two volumes) Ref E184.A1.A63448 1997
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (four volumes) Ref E184.S75 O97 2005
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (three volumes) Ref E184.A1G14 2000
- Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups Ref E 184.A1H35
Internet Resources
- NARA: The National Archives and Records Administration http://www.archives.gov
- NARA is the federal agency charged with collecting, organizing, preserving, and providing access to historical public records of all agencies of the federal government. It includes research facilities in all regions of the nation.
- Library of Congress American Memory Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
- The American Memory project is an effort by the LOC to provide free access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
- Browse collections by topic, by time period (e.g. 1930 - 1949), by format (e.g. maps, manuscripts, motion pictures, sheet music, photos, prints, sound recordings, books, etc.), or you can view a list of all collections.
- Relevant American Memory Project sections include:
- Immigration: Learning Page from Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html
- Immigration, American Expansion http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Immigration,+American%20Expansion
- Historical Statistics of the United States (from the University of Virginia) provides statistics from 1790 to 1960) http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
- FirstGov: The US Government’s Official Web Portal http://www.firstgov.gov
- For links to sites relevant to historical research see the Citizens: History, Arts, and Culture web page at http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/History.shtml
- Documenting the American South (from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/
- Current Census Information: use American FactFinder and select DATA SETS then Census 2000 Summary File 3. http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
- In the First Person (provides personal narratives in English) http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx
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