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This collection is available in microfiche on the 3rd floor of Walsh Library. Contact alan.delozier@shu.edu for more info.
History - Getting Started
Early American Imprints Index
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 is considered the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. This collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.
This collection is available in microfiche on the 3rd floor of Walsh Library. Contact alan.delozier@shu.edu for more info.A microfiche reader is available for use to the right of the Referecnce Desk (you can inquire at Reference or Circulation). There is a high-resolution ScanPro system that will allow you to locate, scan and share materials from this collection. It may be helpful to view the indices online at the links below to narrow your search.
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Charles Evans (1903–59). American Bibliography.
Chicago: Blakely Press via Internet Archive
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1639 (1) |
1729 (3244) |
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1730 (3245) |
1750 (6623) |
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1751 (6624) |
1764 (9890) |
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1765 (9891) |
1773 (13091) |
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1774 (13092) |
1778 (16176) |
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1779 (16177) |
1785 (19448) |
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1786 (19449) |
1789 (22297) |
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1790 (22298) |
1792 (25074) |
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1796 |
1797 |
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1799 |
1800 |
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Alternate link: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001167956
Biographical Web sites
- American Presidency ProjectIncludes the presidential papers.
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum--Digital ArchivesThis site provides finding aids to specific collections and links to digitized primary sources.
- Lincolniana at BrownThe materials are grouped into several categories: broadsides, graphics, manuscripts, objects, sheet music, & newspapers.
- Photography History: Fred J. Maroon & the Nixon years, 1970-74One photographer's account of Richard Nixon's years in office.
American History Periodicals
Here is an inventory of American historical periodicals contained in our current subscriptions:
History Databases
- America: History & Life (EBSCO Publishing)(A&I) This link opens in a new windowProvides a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineProject which aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)(A&I) This link opens in a new windowFeatures thousands of annotated references and bibliographic citations on a wide-range of people, places, and specific events which had an impact on shaping world history.
- Jewish Life in America c1654-1954 (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowExcellent resource for all those interested in understanding and exploring the history of Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today.
- JSTORJSTOR connects libraries, researchers, teachers, and students around the world with vital scholarly content in more than 50 disciplines.
Web Resources
- Americas ArchiveThe Americas collection strives to represent the full range and complexity of the Americas history by bringing together key documents that examines political and cultural relationships from a hemispheric perspective.
- Automobile in American LifeThis site is composed of five socioeconomic topics/sections related to the role of the automobile in America: Labor, Gender, Race, Design, and Environment.
- Bracero History ArchiveMakes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
- E Pluribus Unum ProjectAmerica in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s
- MIT History VideosMIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 800 videos.
- Pop History DigFeatures about 100 articles on various topics in American popular culture 1900-present.