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United States History Research Guide
Primary Sources
Primary sources include original works of an author--novels, poems, short stories, autobiographies, diaries, and firsthand reports of observations or research. Primary sources include many books and journal articles. In addition, primary source materials may be found in the following collections:
Data Sets
Government Documents
Microforms
Special Collections and University Archives
Guides to Primary Resources
Articles Describing Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography (UM W.E.B. Du Bois CD3022.A2 D478 1997)
Topical bibliography of articles that "describe photograph collections, oral history and sound recording collections, motion pictures, radio and television programs, selected art works, machine readable records, and traditional textual materials."
Five Colleges Archives and Manuscripts Collections
Over 900 finding aids describing archives and manuscripts found at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College.
A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States (UM Reference CD3022 .A45)
Guide to "information about the archival and manuscript holdings of some 1,300 depositories in the 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone."
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States (UM Reference CD3026 1995 + v.1-3)
Comprehensive listing of collections of official records of U.S. governmental agencies in the National Archives. Volume 3 contains an index to names, acts, positions, organizations, places, and subjects. Updated Web version available: Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States.
A Guide to Manuscripts in the Presidential Libraries (UM Reference CD3029.82 .B87 1985 +)
Brief "descriptions of manuscript collections, microfilm, and oral histories" in the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Ford libraries.
A Guide to Pre-Federal Records in the National Archives (UM Reference CD3045 .W44 1989)
Annotated guide to official governmental records from the time period before the U.S. Constitution took effect on March 4, 1789.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): ARC Basic Search
"The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC, area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries."
National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (UM Microfiche Storage 891, 892, 893, 894)
Finding aids, guides, and indexes to collections of documents in federal archives, the Library of Congress, state archives, state libraries, historical societies, and academic libraries.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (UM W.E.B. Du Bois Z6620.U5N27)
Comprehensive directory of repositories and collections of primary source material in the United States.
Primary Documents in American History
Links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress.
Records of the Presidency: Presidential Papers and Libraries from Washington to Reagan (UM W.E.B. Du Bois CD3029.82 .S35 1989)
Guide to the collections of presidential papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and historical societies and special libraries.
Primary Sources in Databases and on the Internet
*African American Newspapers | User's guide
Major African American newspapers published in the United States during the nineteenth century: Freedom's Journal, The Coloured American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (University of Kansas)
Links to documents, arranged chronologically from the fifteenth century to the present.
American Memory
Online resources from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions that include "written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."
Archives Center (Smithsonian Institution)
Guide to the "National Museum of American History's extraordinary collections of personal papers, business records and commercial ephemera, sheet music, historic film, video, and photographs."
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale Law School)
Links to "primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."
*Black Studies Center
Three major twentieth century African American newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Daily Defender (1956-1975); New York Amsterdam News (1962-1993).
*Black Thought and Culture | User's guide
Monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (U.S. Government Printing Office)
Core government documents, including the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and Congressional and Presidential papers and documents.
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina Library)
Texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the twentieth century. Seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Early Americas Digital Archive (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)
Texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Browse/Search the Texts or Browse by Author.
*Historical Boston Globe
Searchable image files of all issues from 1872 to 1924.
*Historical New York Times
Searchable image files of a major U.S. newspaper. Coverage starts in 1851 and includes all but the latest few years.
Making of America (University of Michigan)
Approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles that are "primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
Making of America (Cornell University)
267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles that are "primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
*North American Women's Letters and Diaries | User's guide
Diaries and correspondence of 1,325 women from Colonial times to 1950.
Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)
"Listing of over 5,000 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."
*Wall Street Journal
Searchable image files of the U.S. financial newspaper. Covers 1984 to the present.
*Wall Street Journal Archive
Searchable image files of the U.S. financial newspaper. Covers 1889 to 1990.
*Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Primary and secondary sources on women's involvement in historical events. Includes books, pamphlets, papers, and articles.
*Databases available on Library computers to all and off campus to UMass students, faculty, staff, and affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT username and password when prompted. |
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