United States History
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ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGS
- Five Colleges Archives and Manuscript Collections This link opens in a new windowExplore unique digital collections from Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges.Content is freely available for use by all.
- Five College CatalogFind books, journals, and media collections held by UMass Libraries and the Five Colleges.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowThe combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries.Content is freely available for use by all.
OTHER RESOURCES
- UMass Interlibrary LoanBorrow books from libraries outside of the Five Colleges or request copies of articles and materials from any library.
- Boston Public LibraryFOR MORE HISTORICAL DATABASES - GET A FREE eCARD FROM THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARYThe Boston Public Library (BPL) and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) offer all Massachusetts residents remote access to proprietary databases. This includes historical newspapers, government information, and geneaology sources.
LIBRARY DATABASES
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals from all academic disciplines - an excellent starting point for multidisciplinary research projects. 3,200 full-text journals. Coverage from 1975 to present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, dissertations, and book reviews, many in full text, relating to United States and Canadian history and prehistory, 1954-present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Kanopy FilmsStreaming video of films depicting North America.
ONLINE REFERENCE SOURCES
- American decades primary sources by Cynthia Rose (Editor)Call Number: UMass Reference E-Book E740.5Publication Date: 2004E-Book
- American Factfinder This link opens in a new windowAmerican FactFinder has been discontinued. This link will go to Data.gov, where the same information is available.Content is freely available for use by all.
- American National Biography This link opens in a new windowOver 19,000 biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history written by prominent scholars.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Dictionary of American history by Stanley I. Kutler (Editor)Call Number: UMass Reference E-Book E174Publication Date: 2003E-Book
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowEvery significant book or pamphlet printed in the UK, and English-language titles printed in America, between 1701 and 1800.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Historical Newspaper: New York Times This link opens in a new windowFull-text of The New York Times, with coverage from 1851 to three years ago.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new windowStatistics gathered by the Census Bureau, with scholarly editing and essays, from colonial times to near present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Internet Public Library - 2Online reference on a wide variety of topics; maintained by information professionals and a consortium of colleges and universities.This website is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites. It is hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology and maintained by a consortium of colleges and universities.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCore scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses; searchable by journal issue, author, and keyword, 1996-present.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. This link opens in a new windowStatistics from U.S. agencies on population, society, trade, the government, and much more, 2013-present. This for-profit version continues Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1878-2012.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
- America in Caricature 1765-1865American political cartoonsFrom the Lilly Library -- the rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.
- American Presidency ProjectMore than 103,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.Website created and maintained by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and DiplomacyComprehensive collection of documents relating to law, history, and government from ancient times to the current era.From the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University.
- Center for History and New MediaList of links to digital libraries and archives on topics in U.S. history.From the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
- Core Documents of U.S. DemocracyA collection of basic U.S. federal government documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, including images of original and transcripts of text.This website created and maintained by the Government Printing Office, the official publisher of U.S. government information.
- Famous Speeches in HistoryOnline audio recordings of historical speeches.From History.com, a commercial cable television channel and media outlet.
- Historical Census BrowserInteractive website of U.S. state and county census information; allows users to manipulate data, including producing tables and maps of selected data.From the University of Virginia's Geospatial and Statistical Data Center. The data and terminology are drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.
- Historical Maps of the United StatesAn extensive list of links to digitized maps from a variety of websites and digital archives around the world.From the University of Texas at Austin.
- Immigration History Research CenterList of links to documents related to U.S. immigration and refugee life, and research on international migration, including personal papers of immigrants and others in their community, government records, publications and other research.From the Immigration Research History Center at the University of Minnesota.
- Making of America (Cornell)Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.From Cornell University.
- Mapping American HistoryInteractive maps of historical events, developments and dynamics.Created and maintained by James Mohr and John Nicols, Department of History, University of Oregon.
- National ArchivesLinks to resources available through the U.S. National Archive.
- National Archives Presidential LibrariesDocuments, records, and memorabilia of U.S. presidents, starting from 1940 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency).From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
- National JukeboxHistorical audio recordings, including music and spoken word in many languages.From the Library of Congress.
- National Security ArchiveA non-governmental collection of information relating to U.S. national security.From George Washington University.
- Picturing HistoryList of links to visual resources gathered by scholars of American history and visual culture.From the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryPrimary sources in American history from 1493 onwards, including more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera.From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at the New-York Historical Society, which is purported to be one of the nation’s great archives in the Revolutionary, early national, antebellum, and Civil War periods.
- USHistory.orgU.S. History, pre-Columbian to the new millenniumFrom the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia.
- American Memory This link opens in a new windowLarge collection of reproductions of primary source material from U.S. Library of Congress: pictures, pamphlets and recordings. Earliest dates from 1400s.Content is freely available for use by all.
Revision History
Revised by Helen Boos (Summer 2013)
- Last Updated: Oct 9, 2024 11:37 AM
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Subjects: History