Transcript WISER: Information Sources for US History Isabel D. Holowaty, Bodleian History Librarian [email protected].

WISER:
Information Sources for US History
Isabel D. Holowaty, Bodleian History Librarian
[email protected]
Aim
Your libraries in Oxford
• About electronic resources
• Finding out about publications
• Primary sources
• Special Collections & archives
• Portals
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Your Libraries
Research collections: Vere Harmsworth Library
• Lending collections: History Faculty Library
• Related libraries:
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Rhodes House Library (e.g. slavery)
• Bodleian Library (rare books, special collections, music)
• Radcliffe Science Library (history of science & medicine)
• Social Science Library (US politics)
• Sackler Library (US art)
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About e-resources
Lists of subscriptions
OxLIP+
• Oxford University eJournals
Via SOLO or at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources
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Off-campus access
• Single Sign-On (SSO) username & password
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access
Finding out about publications
Books
• Journals
• Articles
• Dissertations
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Finding out about publications
Books
Library catalogues, Bibliographies, Reviews
Journals (print + electronic)
Library catalogues, Bibliographies, OU eJournals
Journal articles
Bibliographies (print + online)
Dissertations
Dissertation and Theses
Index to Theses
Theses completed & in progress (IHR website)
SOLO/OLIS
The limits of presidential activism: Lyndon Johnson
and the implementation of the community action
program (1985 Columbia Univ thesis on microfilm)
America: History & Life
Bibliographic reference to the history of the United
States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• Published since 1964.
• Contains 490,000+ bibliographic entries for 2,000+
periodicals dating back to 1954.
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Covers all key English-language historical journals.
• Selected historical journals from major countries, state
and local history journal.
• Targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social
sciences and humanities.
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America: History & Life
Early American Imprints, I 1639-1800
(Evans)
A major digital collection of full-text early printed American imprints
(1639-1800), compiled originally in the American Bibliography by
Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to
Charles Evan's American Bibliography.
The collection of 37,000+ imprints embraces every aspect of life in
17th and 18th century America (history, literary, religion, witchcraft,
agriculture, foreign affairs, temperance, etc.).
Genre of material is very wide-ranging. In addition to printed books,
pamphlets and broadsides, the collection also covers anything from
advertisements to chapbooks, diaries to gazetteers, and hymnals to
wills.
Early American Imprints, I 16391800 (Evans)
Access also via OLIS:
Early American Imprints I, Evans (1639-1800)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains bibliographical references of Pollard & Redgrave’s
STC (1475-1640) and Wing STC (1641-1700) and 96,000+
images of early printed material.
Good source for exhaustive research in the areas of English
literature, history, philosophy, theology, art and music, politics,
and the history of science and medicine.
EEBO
Eighteenth Century Collections
Online (ECCO)
Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions
published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available
online over the course of the next two years.
When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of
more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every
significant English-language and foreign-language title
printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of
important works from the Americas.
ECCO
Other Primary Sources
Published in print
• Presidential Papers
• Audio-visual material
• Newspapers
• Microform
• Official Publications
• Statistics
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In Print
Library catalogue subject searches
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources
Constitutional history -- United States – Sources
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 – Correspondence
New Deal, 1933-1939 - Florida - Sources
Civil Rights – United States – Sources
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Public opinion - Sources
Godwyn Pamphlets
R.6.204
Index at DH
An essay upon the government of the English plantations on the
continent of America (1701) : An anonymous Virginian's proposals
for liberty under the British crown.
In Print
Early America
Colonial State Papers
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series (America &
West Indies). 1574-1739. 45 vols. [via British History Online]
Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789
Presidential Papers
Public papers v. private papers
US Presidential Library (via HeinOnline)
Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1916
• Public Papers of the Presidents (Hoover to George W. Bush)
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
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Presidential Libraries
Presidential Libraries are repositories for the papers, records
and historical materials of the Presidents.
http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/contact/libraries.html
HeinOnline > US Presidential Library
Audio-visual material
Presidential Recordings Program (The Miller’s Center for Public Affairs)
http://tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/
(Lyndon B Johnson) Recordings of Telephone Conversations and
Meetings. May 1968 -January 1969. 43 CDs + selected transcripts.
The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S.
Diplomacy, 1969-1977 + transcripts.
via Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)
DNSA > Kissinger Transcripts, 1969-1973
Newspapers & magazines
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
BAAS Newspaper Catalogue
http://www.baas.ac.uk/
BL Newspaper Catalogue
http://catalogue.bl.uk/
American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
19th Century US Newspapers
New York Times, 1851Washington Post, 1877Chicago Defender, 1909-1975
The New Republic, 1914- [1988- online]
The Nation, 1865-
American Periodicals Series,
1740-1900 (APS)
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between
1740 and 1900.
Including special interest and general magazines, literary and
professional journals, children's and women's magazines,
and many other historically-significant periodicals.
American Periodical Series
New York Historical Archive, 1851-
BL Newspaper Catalogue
Newspapers & magazines
Ethnic Newswatch 1960sBlack Journals [microform]
Time Magazine
1923- http://www.time.com/time/archive/
1990- Oxford eJournals
In microform
British sources relating to America in microfilm (BAAS)
• VHL Guide to microfilms (Title/ subject)
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Papers of individuals
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Papers of organisations
Salmon Chase, William H Seward, Thaddeus Stevens, etc.
American Colonization Society, American Home Missionary
Society Papers, Freedmen’s Aid Society Records, Congress of
Racial Equality Papers, NAACP Papers, etc.
Official Papers: Finding Aids
GPO Monthly Catalog
• Subject Index to Monthly Catalog
• CIS indices
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Public documents
Executive Branch documents
Congress publications
Congressional Hearings
Official Papers
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Congressional papers
American State Papers, 1789-1838
US Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 [OxLIP+]
US Congressional Serial Set, 1995- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
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Senate and House papers
Journals
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Congressional records
Annals of Congress etc.
US Serial Set, 1817-1994
American Memory
Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Digitised mss, publications, posters, maps, images, oral
history
Examples
• US Congress 1774-1875: journals, debates, statutes
• Presidential Papers at LC (Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln)
• Frederick Douglass Papers
and much more!!!
American Memory > U S Congress 1774-1875
Foreign & diplomatic affairs
Foreign relations of the US (FRUS)
Selections http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/
Declassified documents
Declassified Documents Reference System
Digital National Security Archive
Foreign Relations of the US
Foreign relations of the US
Declassified Documents
Reference System (DDRS)
500,000+ pages of previously classified government
documents.
Covering major international events from the Cold War
to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source
enables users to locate key information underpinning
studies in international relations, American studies, United
States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and
more.
DDRS
DDRS
Legal & constitutional history
HeinOnline (OxLIP+):
• Statutes at Large
• US Federal Legislative History Library
• US Supreme Court Library
HeinOnline: Statutes at Large
Statistics & data
Catalog of United States census publications
Historical Statistics of the United States
Statistical abstract of the United States. 1878-2000 (US
Census Bureau)
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html
United States historical census data browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus
iPOLL (Public Opinion Research)
Historical Statistics of the US
iPoll
Archives
Finding aids
National Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/
National Inventory of Document Sources in the US (NIDS)
ArchiveGrid (OxLIP+)
Archives in Oxford
United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel [RHO]
(British) Anti-Slavery Society [RHO]
Sir John Crampton, 1848-63 [BOD]
Sir James Bryce, 1907-13 [BOD]
Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, 1953-6 [BOD]
American Papers of Sir Charles Vaughan [All Souls]
Archives online
Footnote.com
Free content includes, e.g.
http://www.footnote.com/
Washington’s Correspondence with Secretaries of State 1789-1796
• American Colonization Society papers
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American Memory
LC papers of G. Washington, T. Jefferson, A. Lincoln, Madison, F.
Douglass, etc.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Biographical Sources
American National Biography
• World Biographical Archive
• Who’s who
• Diplomatic List
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American National Biography
World Biographical Information System
World Biographical Information System
World Biographical Information System
Portals
British Association for American Studies
http://www.baas.ac.uk/
American Studies Research Portal (ASRP)
Intute
American Memory (LC)
OAIster
http://www.asrp.info/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
http://oaister.worldcat.org/
Questions?