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Resources for HTY 507:
 Graduate Reading Seminar
American History
to the Civil War

 

Fogler Resources
    Fogler Library Home Page  http://www.library.umaine.edu/
    URSUS 
        For books on a topic, choose "Subject" or "KeyWords." 
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ournal/Magazine/Newspaper).
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help topics
    Interlibrary Loan Department  
   
Special Collections Department

Library Catalogs
    URSUS 
    MaineCat  Requests:  more info
    Other Library Catalogs (LibDex)
    WorldCat 
   
Maine Serials List

    National Union Catalog, pre-1956 Imprints  Z881.A1 U518

Government Documents
    URSUS  U.S. federal documents 1975 -  , Canadian federal documents
   
Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976
   U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
    American State Papers, 1789-1838
    Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents, 1789-1976   Ref Index Z1223.Z7 L47
    Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1900-1971  
        Ref Index Z1223 .A18

Guides to the Literature
    The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature  REF D20 A45 1995
   
History Matters : A Student Guide To U.S. History Online  REF E175.88 .G48 2005
    Guide to Reference Books  REF Z1035.1 G89 1996  (ask at Reference Desk)

Indexes and Abstracts
    Academic Search Premier
    America:  History and Life  (1954-  )
    C.R.I.S. : Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974
        REF INDEX D299 C62
    Historical Abstracts  (1954-  ) 
    Proquest Dissertations & Theses
    Web of Science
    National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections  (1959- )  REF Z6620.U5 N3
    National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) (1986- ) 

Newspapers
   
Historical New York Times (1851 to 4 years ago)
    America's Historical Newspapers

    American Newspapers, 1821-1936; a Union List...  REF Z6945 .A53
    United States Newspaper Program National Union List  REF Z6945 .U5 1985
    Maine Newspaper Archives in Fogler Library  
    Maine Newspaper Project  (also at the Reference Desk: REF Z6952 M2 M35 1999)

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Directories, and Handbooks
   
Dictionary of American History  REF E174 A43 1976
   
Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History  REF HQ1410 R43 1998
   
Encyclopedia of Women's History in America  REF HQ1410 C85 1996
   
Annals of America  REF E173 A793
    Annals of American History
   
Documents of American History  REF E173 D59 1988
   
Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
        REF CD3020 D49 1988
   
Archival and Manuscript Repositories of Primary Sources
   
Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada  REF E172 A538
   
Historical Statistics of the United States

    Historical Statistics of the United States  REF HA202 .H57 2006

Biographical Sources
    Biography and Genealogy Master Index
    Biography Index  REF INDEX CT100 B5
    American National Biography  REF CT215 A68 1999
    Dictionary of American Biography  REF E176 D56

Indexes to Book Reviews
    Book Review Digest  (1905-  )
    Book Review Index  (1965-  )  REF INDEX Z1035 A1 B6
    Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities  (1960-1990)  REF INDEX Z1035  A1 I63
   
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences  
    See also America:  History and Life and
Historical Abstracts

Style Guides
   
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. REF Z253 .U69 2003 (ask at Reference Desk)
    Chicago Manual Web Site Q & A
    Turabian, Kate L.  A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed.  
        REF LB2369 .T8 2007 (ask at Reference Desk)
    Citation Guides
   
Citing Electronic Information in History Papers

  
Comparison of reference management software
   
Zotero

Writing Resources
    Dictionaries and Writing Resources  (Fogler Home Page>Quick Reference)
    Oxford English Dictionary Online
    The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed.  REF PE1625 .O87 1989
    The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed.  REF PE1628 .A623 2000
   
The UMaine Writing Center

Digital & Full-Text (and Image) Initiatives
     Project Muse
     JSTOR
    
History Cooperative

    
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)
    
Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
    Making of America Journals (Cornell)
    Making of America Journals (Michigan)

Professional Resources
     American Historical Association (AHA)
     Organization of American Historians (OAH)
    
Links for the History Profession (OAH
)


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Created by: Melvin Johnson | 581-3614 |Revised: 09/09/09
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