WISER:Information Sources for US History

Isabel D. Holowaty, OULS History Librarian

Aim•About electronic resources •Finding out about publications•Primary sources•Special Collections & archives•Portals

About e-resources

Lists of subscriptions http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources •OxLIP•Oxford University eJournals

Off-campus access•Virtual Private Network (VPN)•Single Sign-On password

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access

Finding out about publications•Books•Journals •Articles•Dissertations

Finding out about publicationsBooks

Library catalogues, Bibliographies, ReviewsJournals (print + electronic)

Library catalogues, Bibliographies, Oxford eJournals

Journal articlesBibliographies (print + online)

DissertationsDissertation and ThesesIndex to ThesesTheses completed & in progress (IHR website)OLIS

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The limits of presidential activism: Lyndon Johnson and the implementation of the community action program (1985 Columbia Univ thesis on microfilm)

America: History & LifeA complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database 490,000+ bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.

This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.

America: History & Life

Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue (NSTC)It 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.

Includes holdings of Oxford, Cambridge, BL, Harvard, Washington, etc.

NSTC

Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue (NSTC)

Early American Imprints, I 1639-1800 (Evans)A major digital collection of full-text early printed American imprints (1639-1800), compiled originally in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evan's American Bibliography.

The collection of 37,000+ imprints embraces every aspect of life in 17th and 18th century America (history, literary, religion, witchcraft, agriculture, foreign affairs, temperance, etc.).

Genre of material is very wide-ranging. In addition to printed books, pamphlets and broadsides, the collection also covers anything from advertisements to chapbooks, diaries to gazetteers, and hymnals to wills.

Early American Imprints, I 1639-1800 (Evans)Access also via OLIS:

Early English Books Online (EEBO)Contains bibliographical references of Pollard & Redgrave’s STC (1475-1640) and Wing STC (1641-1700) and 96,000+ images of early printed material.

Good source for exhaustive research in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, theology, art and music, politics, and the history of science and medicine.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years.

When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

ECCO

Other Primary Sources•Published in print•Presidential Papers•Newspapers•Microform•Official Publications•Statistics

In PrintOLIS subject searches

United States – History – Civil War 1861-1865 - Sources

Americans – Travel – England – History – 19th centuryWomen – United States – History – 20th century

American Archives

Godwyn Pamphlets Index at DH R.6.204

Material on early CongressLetters of delegates to Congress 1774-1789. [VHL JK 1033 .L47 1976]

An essay upon the government of the English plantations on the continent of America (1701) : An anonymous Virginian's proposals for liberty under the British crown.

Presidential PapersPublic papers v. private papers

Papers of Woodrow Wilson. 69 vols. [VHL E 660 .W717 1966]

Presidential LibrariesPresidential Libraries are repositories for the papers, recordsand historical materials of the Presidents.

http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/contact/libraries.html

Newspapers & magazinesBAAS Newspaper Catalogue http://www.baas.ac.uk/ BL Newspaper Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk/

Early American Newspapers [microform]American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900

New York Times, 1851-Washington Post, 1877-Chicago Defender, 1909-1975The New Republic, 1914- [1988- online] The Nation, 1865-

Newspapers & magazinesEthnic Newswatch 1960s-Black Journals [microform]Time Magazine

1923- http://www.time.com/time/archive/ 1990- Oxford eJournals

New York Times 1851-2002

American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900 (APS)Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900.

Including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

Time Magazine

In microform

•British sources relating to America in microfilm (BAAS)•VHL Guide to microfilms (Title/ subject)

•Papers of individuals Salmon Chase, William H Seward, Thaddeus Stevens,

etc.

•Papers of organisations American Colonization Society, American Home

Missionary Society Papers, Freedmen’s Aid Society Records, Congress of Racial Equality Papers, NAACP Papers, etc.

Official Papers: Finding Aids

•GPO Monthly Catalog•Subject Index to Monthly Catalog•CIS indices

Public documentsExecutive Branch documentsCongress publicationsCongressional Hearings

Official Papers

•Congressional papersAmerican State PapersUS Serial Set

•Senate and House papersJournals

•Congressional recordsAnnals of Congress etc

American Memory

Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/Digitised mss, publications, posters, maps, images, oral history

Examples•US congress 1774-1875: journals, debates, statutes•Presidential Papers (Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln)•Frederick Douglass Papers

and much more!!!

Senate House Journal

Official Papers

Foreign relations of the USSelections http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/

Declassified documentsDeclassified Documents Reference SystemDigital National Security Archive

Foreign relations of the US

Foreign relations of the US

Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)

500,000+ pages of previously classified government documents.

Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more.

Statistics

Catalog of United States census publications

Historical Statistics of the United States

Statistical abstract of the United States. 1878-2000 (US Census Bureau) http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html

United States historical census data browserhttp://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/

histcensus

iPOLL (Public Opinion Research)

Historical Statistics of the US

Special Collections

Finding aids:•NARA http://www.archives.gov/ •NIDS•ArchiveGrid

United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel [RHO](British) Anti-Slavery Society [RHO]Sir John Crampton [BOD]American Papers of Sir Charles Vaughan [All Souls]

http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R97600.pdf

Biographical Sources

•American National Biography •World Biographical Archive•Who’s who•Diplomatic List

PortalsBAASAmerican Studies Research Portal (ASRP)

http://www.asrp.info/ Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ American Memory (LC)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

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