Indexes to Articles on History & Selected Resources
Biographical Resources
World History: Overview Resources

Primary Source Research

• Primary Sources: how to Identify & locate
• Primary Sources: (History 103/104)
• Primary Sources: Pacific Northwest
• Census Population Schedules
• Speeches: How to Locate

Newspapers & Early Magazines

• American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1 1760-1900
  American Broadsides is a searchable full text database of 30,000 posters, proclamations, menus, advertisements, invitations, fliers, stock certificates, clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, and theater and music programs that document political and cultural events, both private and civic from 1760-1900. Some of the documents are available in color. This database was created from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876
  Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.
• The Making of America  (University of Michigan)  
• Making of America (Cornell)  This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
• Newspapers: Collections  Guide to Historical Newspaper Collections; and to resources about the North American Regional, Ethnic, and Alternative Press
• Newspapers (North American) Before 1900  Search by Title;   Search by Date
• Newspapers (North American) After 1900    Search by Title;   Search by Date 
• Newspapers & Early Magazines (North American & British 1800 - early 1900's
• Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals  1824 - 1900: early magazine holdings at WWU

Research Guides - Specialized Topics

• African Americans
• American Indians
• American Indians - Locating Indian Treaties
• Asian Americans
• Canadian Prairies & the American Northern Great Plains, Comparative History (History 390P)
• Civil War & Slavery
• Civil Rights Movement
• Great Depression  (History 499)
• East Asian Studies
  see also: South Asian Periodicals in the Western Libraries and Online - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
• Latina & Latino Americans
• Japanese Internment:  Evacuation & Relocation 1942-1945
• Jewish Americans
• Labor Studies and Radical History (Holt Labor Library)
• Primary Sources: History 103/104
• Renaissance Bibliography
• A Social History of the Renaissance  (History 499)
• Third World Resources
• United States Women's Movements  (History 499) 
  see also: Women's Suffrage Movement & Women Studies:  A Research Guide

Related Subjects

Selected Resources for American Cultural Studies
Selected Resources for Anthropology               See Also:  Anthropology Research Guides
Selected Resources for Political Science          See Also:  Political Science Research Guides
Selected Resources for Religion                       See Also:  World Religions -Research Guides

June 2008