History 599: Graduate Seminar: The Creation of the Early American Republic - Library Research Guide and Bibliography

• Bibliographies and Guides to Historical Literature
• Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
• Indexes/Databases for Locating Periodical Literature and Book Reviews
• Web Resources

American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature / Robert L. Beisner, editor. - Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2003. - 2 v. (xviii, 2065 p.) ; 26 cm. - Rev. ed. of: Guide to American foreign relations since 1700 / edited by Richard Dean Burns. 1983. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Call Number: REF E183.7.G84

Excellent annotated bibliography covers the full span of U.S. diplomatic history with over 16,000 entries covering reference works, primary materials, historiography, biographical, thematic and geographical studies, and much more. Organized into 32 chapters following a chronological pattern. Essential for any project on a topic in diplomatic history.

The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature / general editor, Mary Beth Norton; associate editor, Pamela Gerardi. - New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. - 2 v.; 27 cm. - Call Number: REF D20.A64

Carefully selected books and articles covering all major topic areas in historical research. Not intended to be exhaustive; instead the editors emphasize the best and most important works published for each subject area, concentrating on writings published between 1961 and 1992. All entries contain brief, useful annotations. Section 41 in Volume 2, "American Revolution and Early Republic, 1754-1815," contains 614 potentially useful entries. Should be supplemented with a search in the Book Reviews section of the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review and other journals for the period after 1992.

American Popular Culture: A Guide to the Reference Literature / Frank W. Hoffmann. - Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1995. - Includes indexes.; Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2000. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. - E169.1H64 [E-BOOK]

Bibliographic guide to reference materials and other sources of information on popular culture in the U.S. Along with the topical chapters, there are also chapters on special research collections, societies and associations dedicated to popular culture, and important journals in the field. PLEASE NOTE that this is an electronic book; access to it from off-campus requires the creation of a personal netLibrary account on campus.

Handbook for Research in American History: A Guide to Bibliographies and other Reference Works / Francis Paul Prucha. - Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1994. - ix, 214 p. ; 23 cm. - Includes index. - Call Number: REF E178.P78

One of the best guides to reference sources in history. Describes 1,000 titles under 19 source-type categories, including manuscripts, oral history materials, government documents, local history collections, statistics, and picture sources. Does not include the web.

The Harvard Guide to African-American History / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Leon F. Litwack, and Darlene Clark Hine. - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. - Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editor-in-chief ; Leon F. Litwack and Darlene Clark Hine, general editors ; Randall K. Burkett, associate editor ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Includes bibliographical references index. - Call Number: REF E185.H326

Comprehensive bibliography contains 12 essays on historical research aids and over 15,000 bibliographic entries covering the full range of African-American history. Although the entries are not annotated, this is still an indispensible guide to research on any topic in African-American history.

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History / Mary Kupiec Cayton, and Peter W. Williams. - New York: Scribner, 2001. - Mary Kupiec Cayton, Peter W. Williams, editors.; 3 volumes) ill. ; 28 cm; Includes bibliographical references and index. - Call Number: REF E169.1.E624

Three-volume work contains lengthy essays (chronological and topical) and longer-than-average bibliographies. Part 2 in Volume 1, "Revolution, Constitution, and the Early Republic to 1838," contains 14 essays. Consult the index for other topical essays covering the subjects relevant to the course.

Encyclopedia of American Social History / Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams. - New York : Scribner ; Toronto; New York: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993. - 019: 27791051; Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams, editors.; 3 v; Includes bibliographical references and index. - Call Number: REF HN57.E58

The first volume of this encyclopedia includes chronological essays covering "The American Colonies from the Seven Years' War Through the Revolution" and "The Early National Period," and there are many other relevant topical essays throughout this reference.

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Indexes/Databases for Locating Periodical Literature and Book Reviews

Academic Search Premier

Full-text database contains periodical literature for a wide variety of subject areas. It is recommended you include the expression "su history" when searching the database to obtain focused results. Please note that online access to this database is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff.

America: History and Life

Bibliographic database contains over 400,000 citations and abstracts for journal and magazine articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations covering the world's scholarly literature about the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes material from over 2,100 journals and magazines written in over 40 languages, although the majority of items were published in English. Most of the items in the database were issued after 1959. Many records now contain links to full-text articles in other Library databases. Please note that access to this database is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff.

Arts and Humanities Search

Bibliographic database contains over 2.5 million citations to periodical literature in arts and humanities fields, including history. Please note that online access to this database is available only in the Library.

H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine

H-Net is an international consortium of scholars and teachers dedicated to using internet networks to advance teaching and research. H-Net currently sponsors over 100 free electronic, interactive newsletters (discussion lists) edited by scholars in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific, including some of the most important lists for history. You can subscribe to these lists for direct email delivery or follow the discussions as messages are posted to a web-based archive. The Reviews section contains a full-text database of recent book reviews.
http://www.h-net.org/

Humanities Index (part of the Wilson OmniFile database)

Excellent bibliographic and full-text index covers history and related fields in the humanities. From the opening screen, select "Humanities" from the Subject Area window near the bottom right corner before entering search terms. Please note that online access to this database is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff.

JSTOR

The JSTOR electronic journal archive includes full-text backfiles for several major scholarly journals in history, education, and sociology. The collection can be searched or browsed. From the openning screen, select appropriate subject collections from the list of disciplines before entering your search terms. Please note that online access to this database is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff.

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Web Resources

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

American Memory is a large-scale project of the Library of Congress to make available multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. Over 100 historical collections are now available through this site, including over seven million digitized items (e.g., maps, pamphlets, sheet music, photographs, broadsides, films, sound recordings, notebooks, periodicals and manuscripts). Among the many notable collections in American Memory is Working Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842 (Digital Library of Georgia)

This digital archive contains over 1,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, and the Tennessee State Library and Archives. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast. Can be browsed or searched. Follow the instructions at the bottom of the page to access the collection.
http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/spcoll/native.htm

Surfing Back to the Early Republic: A Selected list of Web Resources

Excellent annotated collection of links, originally published in the OAH Magazine of History in 2000.
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/earlyrepublic/websites.htm

Teaching the American Revolution and Founding of the American Republic on the Web

This annotated list of web resources is intended to "provide an overview of one approach to integrating specific Internet-based resources into history curricula to facilitate the teaching of the American Revolution and the Founding of the American Republic, utilizing the National Standards for History as the guiding curricular framework."
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCiv3/K-12/

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