US history sources

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US history sources

• Isabel Holowaty
• OULS History Librarian
• isabel.holowaty_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk

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Aim

• Finding out about publications
• Primary sources
• Special Collections archives
• Electronic resources

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Finding out about publications

• Books
• Journals
• Articles
• Dissertations

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Finding out about publications
American Historical Review
America History Life
OLIS, BL, LC, WorldCat

• Books
• Library catalogues, Bibliographies, Reviews
• Journals (print electronic)
• Library catalogues, Bibliographies, Oxford
  eJournals
• Articles
• Bibliographies (print online)
• Dissertations
• Dissertation and Theses
• Index to Theses
• Theses completed in progress (IHR website)
• OLIS

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

• A 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.

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America History Life
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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.

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Early American Imprints I, 1639-1800 (Evans)
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Early American Imprints I, 1639-1800 (Evans)

• Access also via OLIS

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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

• Contains bibliographical references of Pollard
  Redgraves 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.

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EEBO
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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.

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ECCO
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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.

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NSTC
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Other primary sources

• Published in print
• Presidential Papers
• Newspapers
• Microform
• Official Publications
• Statistics

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In print

• OLIS subject searches
• United States History Civil War 1861-1865 -
  Sources
• Americans Travel England History 19th
  century
• Women United States History 20th century
• American Archives
• Godwyn Pamphlets
• Material on early Congress

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Presidential Papers

• Public papers v. private papers
• Presidential Libraries
• http//www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/con
  tact/libraries.html

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Newspapers magazines

• BAAS Newspaper Catalogue
  http//www.baas.ac.uk/
• BL Newspaper Catalogue
  http//www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers/
• Early American Newspapers microform
• American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
• New York Times, 1851-
• Washington Post, 1877-
• Chicago Defender, 1909-1975
• The New Republic, 1914- 1988- online
• The Nation, 1865-

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Newspapers magazines

• Ethnic Newswatch 1960s-
• Black Journals microform
• Time Magazine
• 1923- http//www.time.com/time/archive/
• 1992- OxLIP

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New York Times 1851-2002
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American Periodical 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.

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Time Magazine
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In microform

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

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Official publications Finding Aids

• GPO Monthly Catalog
• Subject Index to Monthly Catalog
• CIS indices
• Public documents
• Executive Branch documents
• Congress publications
• Congressional Hearings

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Official publications

• Congressional papers
• American State Papers
• US Serial Set
• Senate and House papers
• Journals
• Congressional records
• Annals of Congress etc.
• See also LCs American Memory website
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/

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Senate House Journal
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Official publications

• Foreign relations of the US
• Selections http//www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/
• Declassified documents
• Declassified Documents Reference System
• Digital National Security Archive

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Foreign Relations of US
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Declassified Documents References System

• 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.

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DDRS
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Statistics

• Historical Statistics of the United States
• Catalog of United States census publications

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Historical Statistics of the US
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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 Vaughn
• All Souls

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Biographical sources

• American National Biography
• World Biographical Archive
• Whos who
• Diplomatic List

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Electronic resources

• Subscription databases (OxLIP)
• eJournals (Oxford eJournals)
• Free web resources
• BAAS
• American Studies Research Portal (ASRP)
  http//www.asrp.info/
• Intute http//www.intute.ac.uk/
• American Memory
• Many more.

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Forthcoming training Hilary 2008

• Current awaress (eAlerts, RSS feeds)
• WISER training, 1230
• Early Printed Books Pt 1 (24 Jan.)
• Pt 2 EEBO, ECCO, MOMW, Evans (28 Feb.)
• Historical newspapers (14 Feb.)
• See http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/information_
  skills