Electronic Resources

Subject Resources: History-U.S. & Canada

= USC users only     = Multiple sources

Databases
	Accessible Archives Archival 18th- and 19th century Northeast newspaper resources.
			varies (18th- and 19th-century)
	African American Newspapers: The 19th Century Covers African-American newspapers from the 19th century.
			19th century; varies by title
	America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
	America: History and Life Covers the history of the United States and Canada
			1964-
	American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900
	American Poetry (1600-1900) Poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century
	American State Papers Archive of Americana, United States Government Papers, 1789-1838
		Readex	1789-1838
	ArchivesUSA Primary source materials from nearly 4,800 US manuscript repositories.
	Bibliography of Native North Americans The Bibliography of Native North Americans contains citations to literature about native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present
	Canadian Poetry Full text of more than 12,000 poems by Canadian poets
	Early American Fiction 1789-1850 Images and text for a collection of early American fiction 1789-1850.
	Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America
	Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
		Readex
	Early American Newspapers Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) is an archive of Americana that provides a fascinating glimpse into our nation's past.
		Readex	1690-1876
	Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment Full text collection of documents dating from 1600-1800
	English Drama (1280-1915) A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases
			1280-1915
	Gale Virtual Reference Library Contains encyclopedias and reference books in a variety of subjects.
	HarpWeek Electronically reproduced and enhanced pages of Harper's Weekly from The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I and II (1857-1874).
			1857 -- 1912
	History Resource Center US Provides access to over 4,000 historical documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
	HOMER Catalog of the Information Services Division's library materials (all libraries except Health Sciences Libraries and Law Library catalogs)
	JSTOR Full text runs of social science, humanities, and science journals.
	LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Full text business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
			varies
	Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music Digitally scanned collection of more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright.
	Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 Full-text of prominent 18th century newspaper.
			1728-1800
	Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County 1809-1870 Database of marriages, deaths and obituaries from the Village Record
			1809-1870
	Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870 Documents the industrialization of predominantly agrarian culture.
			1819-1870
	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
	Rarebooks.info Rarebooks.info offers the largest bibliography on rare books in the world on the web
	U.S. Congressional Serial Set
		Readex	1817-1980
	Virginia Company Archives
	ViVa: a Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history published from 1975-.
	WPA Maps Digital Archive 345 maps from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Land Use survey of Los Angeles conducted from 1933 through 1939.
			1933-1939
eJournals
	American Historical Review Oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 104 (1895 - 1999)
	American Indian Quarterly A peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of the anthropology, history, literatures, religions, and arts of Native Americans.
		Project Muse	Vol. 24, no. 3 (2000)-- present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 23 (1974 - 1999)
	American Jewish History Official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society.
		Project Muse	v. 84, no. 1 (1996)-present
	American Literary History Quarterly journal published by Oxford University Press
		Project Muse	v. 12 - (2000 - )
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 11 (1989 - 1999)
	American Quarterly Interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of American culture.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 46 (1949 - 2004)
		Project Muse	v. 48 (1996) -- present
	Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Presents more than 200 pages of timely, in-depth research on a significant topic of interest in the social or behavioral sciences.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 566 (1890 - 1999)
		Sage	v. 561, no. 1 (1999) -- present
	Civil War History Civil War History is the foremost scholarly journal of the sectional conflict in the United States.
		Project Muse	Vol. 46, no. 4 (2000) through current issue
	English Historical Review Oldest journal of historical scholarship inthe English-speaking world
		Oxford University Press	v. 1996 - present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 114 (1886 - 1999)
	Journal of Cold War Studies The Journal of Cold War Studies features peer-reviewed articles based on archival research in the former Communist world and in Western countries.
			v. 1, no. 1 (1999) -- present
		Project Muse	v. 1 (1999) -- present
	Journal of the American Military Institute Continued by the The Journal of Military History.
		JSTOR	v. 3 - 4 (1939 - 1940).
	Journal of the Early Republic Early United States history and culture
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 21 (1981 - 2001)
		Project Muse	v. 25 (2005) -- present
	Media History
			v. 6, no. 1 (2000) -- present
	New England Quarterly The New England Quarterly, founded in 1928, is best described by its subtitle, A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 74 (1928 - 2001) (has a 3 year moving wall)
	Oral History Review Articles, book and film reviews, and bibliographies deal with the authentication of human experience and research findings in oral history.
		Caliber	v. 28, no. 1 (2001) -- present
	The Western Historical Quarterly
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 31 (1970 - 2000)
	William and Mary Quarterly Scholarly articles on the history of Old World-New World contacts.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 57 (1892 - 2000)
eBooks
	Encyclopedia of American foreign policy Essays by subject experts on American foreign policy
	Gale Virtual Reference Library Contains encyclopedias and reference books in a variety of subjects.
	Literary History of the American West Spnsored by the Western Literature Association
			Published in 1986
Web Sites
	African American Women's History A directory of sites about the history of black women in America
	American Radicalism Collection Resources on radicalism in America
	Autry Museum of Western Heritage Museum of history and culture of the western United States and the indigenous peoples of the Americas
	Bureau of Land Management Historical Photographs Historical database contains more than 3,500 historical digital images, some dating back more than a century.
	California State Library The State Library is California's public research library
	Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective Over 11,000 newspaper articles from both sides of the war.
			November 1, 1860 -- April 15, 1865.
	Early Modern Women Database Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas
	Historic Newspaper: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (1841-1902)
			1841-1902
	Indigenous People's Literature Stories, songs, art, historical documents and information relevant to North American Indians.
	Making of America Thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
	Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier Includes some 55,000 images from the rare book, manuscript, map, and print collections of the Library of Congress and the National Library of Spain--Columbus' 1493 letter and other manuscripts of explorations, voyages and discoveries in the New World.
	WWII Resources