History - United States and Canada
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Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
- America: History and Life covers the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from 1450 to the present. The online index covers over 2,000 scholarly journals published worldwide with over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954 and over 6,000 citations of books and media reviews. The database includes abstracts for each article, and citations to abstracts of dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and related fields. While primarily an index, America: History and Life has links to full text articles for journals appearing in JSTOR, Project Muse, Ingenta, SwetsWise, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press. University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, provided your institution subscribes to these databases, America: History and Life also has full-text access to the four subscription-controlled History Cooperative journals (American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Western Historical Quarterly and William and Mary Quarterly)
- "Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995."
- "Social Sciences Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995."
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
- "Academic Search Premier provides full text from nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies."
- Factiva contains the full text of all Dow Jones publications and 8,000 other publications, 20,000 company reports, and selected business web sites. In addition it contains the full text of Reuters Business Briefings which include global business news as well as foreign language publications. Works best with Internet Explorer 5.01 and newer.
- National Newspaper Index indexes articles from America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Coverage is from 1977 to the present. All five newspapers are available in Moore Library.
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- "The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications provides an index to print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies. When available, links are provided to the full-text of these publications. Additionally, the locate libraries feature enables users to find libraries by state or area code that can make print publications available for their use. Coverage begins with January 1994."
- Find any or all journals available to the Rider Community.
MATILDA, the Rider University ONLINE CATALOG] http://matilda.rider.edu/
- Search MATILDA for books, journals, government documents, videos, selected internet resources available to Rider University students at Moore Library on the Lawrenceville Campus and at Talbott Library on the Princeton campus.
- "OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide."
General Reference Sources
Dictionaries
Dictionary of American Biography
- Call Number: Ref. E176 .D563
Dictionary of American History
- Call Number: Ref. E174 .D52 2003
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of American Studies
- Call Number: Ref. E169.1 .E625 2001
Encyclopedia of the American Presidency
- Call Number: Ref. JK511 .E53 1994
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies
- Call Number: Ref. E45 .E53 1993
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
- Call Number: Ref. E169.1 .E626 2001
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations
- Call Number: Ref. E183.7 .E53 1997
Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations
- Call Number: Ref. JZ1160 .N65 2002
New Encyclopedia of the American West
- Call Number: Ref. F591 .N46 1998
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
- Call Number: Ref. E169.1 .S764 2000
General
Album of American History
- Call Number: Ref. E178 .A24
American Decades
- Examines the changes in American civilization from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present
- Call Numeber: E169.12 .A419 1994
American National Biography
- Call Number: CT213 .A68 1999
American Presidency
- Call Number: Ref. E176.1 .A653 2004
Canadian Sourcebook
- Call Number: Ref. F1004.7
Handbook of North American Indians
- Call Number: Ref. E77 .H25
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
Academic Info: United States History Gateway
- Academic Info is a gateway to educational resources, providing links to general history directories, indexes, a U.S. history digital library, teaching materials, and Presidential libraries.
- Co-sponsored site featuring resources for teaching and researching American history.
From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Biographies, essays and more on major topical areas in American History to 1865
- Contains primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints and photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures on American history and culture.
- A national site with links to extensive resources on indigenous cultures around the world, including Canadian First Settlers, and U.S. Indians.
- A collection of links to megasites and "sites primarily about American Women's History".
Internet Directory
American History - New Scholarship on Women
- Great site designed to offer quality sites on women's history, organized by time period and type of resource, plus a schedule of events.
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Available in Full Text Authentication Required
JSTOR contains the full text of articles published in approximately 430 journals from the fields of arts and science, and business. Its archive spans from the first volume of the journal to within the past three to five years of the journal.
- Currently, Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. ...Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others." Project MUSE includes the full content of each journal with the exception of advertisements.
Primary Source Materials
Government Documents
Foreign Relations of the United States
- The series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, the Website offers access to the series volumes covering the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies. Other accessible volumes are from the Nixon/Ford administration, Truman and Eisenhower.
Foreign Relations of the United States, Electronic Facsimile
- This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. The facsimile consists of an incomplete run from 1863-1958 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed. The missing volumes are scattered throughtout the series. The primary gaps cover the Reconstruction era of 1865-1872, the late 1880's to early 1890's, 1925-1937, and most of the 1950's. Nonetheless, this ongoing profect provides access to important documents not available elsewhere on the Web.
- GPO Access is produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office and provides free electronic access important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the offical, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. GPO Access allows searching and browsing full-text information from all three branches of the Federal Government including Congressional Bills, the Congressional Record, Public and Private Laws, Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, and a number of Judicial resources including a link to the Supreme Court Web site. The site also gives access to documents produced by the Federal Depository Library Program.
- The National Security Archive, a non-profit institution housed at George Washington University's Gelman Library, is a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the the Freedom of Information Act, as well as a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents. The Archive's holdings include more than two million pages of accessioned material in over 200 separate collections. The site also offers National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books providing online acess to critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and more. The Briefing books are categorized in nine subject areas: Europe; Latin America; Nuclear History; China and East Asia; U.S. Intelligence; Middle East and South Asia; The September 11th Sourcebooks; Humanitarian Interventions; and Government Secrecy.
Historical Documents
- a general site on the American Civil War that includes links to images and photographs from the Civil War as well as links to important Civil War documents.
- American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections on topics as wide-ranging as agriculture, art & architecture, business & economics, geography, performing arts, religion, sports, and technology.
American Studies at the University of Virginia
- This site contains several collections of primary source material. Selecting "Cultural Maps" will acess historical maps of the United States and list links to maps at other websites. Select the "30s" will give a menu of film, radio programs, bibliographies and features of life from the 1930's. Selecting "Hypertext" produces a list of United States literature containing works such as Emerson's "Representative Men" or Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery" or the WPA's "American Slave Narratives". All of the literary works have been digitalized and are available in full text.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
- This site is sponsored by Middle Tennessee University and contains links to various digital archives for women's history.
- This National Library of Canada Web site tells te story of the Canadian Confederation from its formation 1867 to the present. Contains a large collection of primary documents and photographs assembled from the National Library of Canada.
Documenting the American South
- Sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture covering the colonial period through early 20th century. The collection includes 1266 books and manuscripts from library's southern holdings. The source of each sub-collection is clearly given in an "About the Collections" sidebar. The collection is organized into seven sub-collections or projects: First-Person Narratives of the American South; Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narrative; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community; The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940; North Carolinians and the Great War.
- Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to over 1,522,000 pages of Canada's printed heritage, featuring works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.
From Revolution to Reconstruction (Documents)
- Primary sources and transcripts from 1400 to the present chronologically arranged.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, contains more than 80,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times. The searchable database of rare and important American historical documents contains nearly 400 annotated transcripts from the Collection. Authors include Geroge Washington, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln. The documents span the years from Columbus's arrival to the end of the Civil War and represent topics as varied as colonial frontier life, the Boston Massacre, the "Amistad" affair, and the role of African American troops in the Civil War.
- A collection of books, letters, diaries, photographs, and other materials related to Kansas and life on the American frontier.
Making of America - Cornell University Collection
- A collaborative project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The Cornell collection, 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles. Both collections are made up of image of the actual pages in the books and journals.
Making of America - University of Michigan Collection
- A collaborative project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The Michigan collection contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- The New Deal Network is an educational guide to the Great Depression/New Deal era of 1928-1955 created by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Marist College, and IBM. The network is a database of photographs, political cartoons, speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal era. The database has over 20,000 items, including 5000 photographs. The material is drawn from a variety of sources. Most of the documents were created by the federal government and are therefore in the public domain. The New Deal Network has limited permission to republish other material still under copyright.
- Access to 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."
Past Portal: Colonial Williamsburgs Portal to American History
- An archive of page images of 18th century American newspapers and books, including the full run of the Virginia Gazette (1736-1780).
- The archive, sponsored by Texas Tech, collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War, including records of individual veterans, veterans' organizations, scholars, and other organizations or individuals who share their experiences of the war era. The Vietnam Archive also administers two projects, the Oral History Project and the Virtual Vietnam Archive.
University of Oklahoma College of Law. A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
- Pre-colonial; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; includes inaugural addresses of U.S. presidents.
- The archive is international in focus and presents primary documents and links concerning World War I. Collection material includes conventions, treaties and official papers; Memorial & personal reminiscences; biographical dictionary; WWI Image archive; Special Topics and commentary articles.
- Primary source materials on all aspects of the war. A private site created and maintained by Larry W. Jewel. While additional material has been added, the help screens and other descriptive information has not been updated since 1997. Still, the site contains much useful information.
Rider University
Career Information
What Can I Do With This Major?
- A convenient website that helps you connect majors with careers. Each major contains an outline of common career areas, typical employers, and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities. Choose Links to find a list of websites that provide information about listed majors and related careers. Disclaimer: Please note that the websites listed under Links are not maintained by the Rider University Career Center but are provided as a convenience to students.
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
- Published by the Census Bureau, this set contains U.S. Statistics from Colonial times to 1970. Subjects covered are population, vital statistics, migration, labor, prices and price indexes, national income and wealth, consumer income and expenditures, social statistics, land, water, climate, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, minerals, construction and housing, manufacturing, transportation, communications, energy, trade, productivity, financial markets and institutions, government, colonial and pre-federal statistics.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (online version)
- 1995-present U.S. Bureau of the Census. U.S. Government Printing Office. As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also a guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations. The online version has full text of the latest editions.
Location: Print version, Moore Library-Reference Room. Call Number: Ref. HA202 .S72
United States Historical Census Data Browser
- 1790-1960 Information compiled from the US Census from 1790-1960, produced by the University of Virginia Library. Depending upon the year, contains statistics on such topics as agriculture, churches, education and literacy, population characteristics, manufacturing, race and place of birth, and taxation and property.
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
Citation Machine - Landmark Project (APA and MLA)
Library Information
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