A basic guide to help you begin an American History research project.
The Luce Library´s Catalog is a good place to start your preliminary search for materials.
American History Reference Books
Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents
REF 973 E56R
**A good place for primary source material!**
Dictionary of
American History
REF 973.03 Ad2a
Encyclopedia of American History
REF 973
E56N
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
REF 973.04
E56
Encyclopedia of American social history
REF 301
C38
American National Biography
REF 920 D54
1999
Great Lives From History. American Women Series
REF 305.4 G78
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Provides access to digitized copies of the full run of the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times,Washington Post, Boston Globe and Hartford Courant.
Ebsco Academic Search
Elite
Academic Search Elite provides full text for
scholarly journals.
Salem Press History Books
Full text searchable reference books on different periods of history.
The following sites are listed as
authoritative resources for the general field of United States history
research. Many of them contain primary source material. More
subject-specific sites are provided by the Brooks School
History Department Links.
American
Memory from the Library of Congress
American Memory
is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and
culture of the United States.
Avalon
Project: Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy from Yale Law
School
This site presents documents from the
pre-18th century to today that are relevant to law, history, economics,
politics, diplomacy and government.
Making of America
Digitized 19th
century books and journals. Hosted at two universities (try both)