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WISER: Information Sources for US History

WISER: Information Sources for US History. Isabel D. Holowaty, Bodleian History Librarian isabel.holowaty@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Aim Your libraries in Oxford About electronic resources Finding out about publications Primary sources Special Collections & archives Portals.

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WISER: Information Sources for US History

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  1. WISER: Information Sources for US History Isabel D. Holowaty, Bodleian History Librarian isabel.holowaty@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

  2. Aim • Your libraries in Oxford • About electronic resources • Finding out about publications • Primary sources • Special Collections & archives • Portals

  3. Your Libraries • Research collections: Vere Harmsworth Library • Lending collections: History Faculty Library • Related libraries: • 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)

  4. About e-resources • Lists of subscriptions • OxLIP+ • Oxford University eJournals • Via SOLO or at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources • Off-campus access • Single Sign-On (SSO) username & password • http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access

  5. Finding out about publications • Books • Journals • Articles • Dissertations

  6. America: History & Life American Historical Review OLIS, BL, LC, WorldCat • 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)

  7. 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. • 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.

  8. America: History & Life

  9. 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.

  10. Early American Imprints, I 1639-1800 (Evans) Access also via OLIS:

  11. Early American Imprints I, Evans (1639-1800)

  12. 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.

  13. EEBO

  14. 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.

  15. ECCO

  16. Other Primary Sources • Published in print • Presidential Papers • Audio-visual material • Newspapers • Microform • Official Publications • Statistics

  17. 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 Index at DH R.6.204 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.

  18. 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

  19. 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 • 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

  20. HeinOnline > US Presidential Library

  21. 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)

  22. DNSA > Kissinger Transcripts, 1969-1973

  23. 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, 1851- • Washington Post, 1877- • Chicago Defender, 1909-1975 • The New Republic, 1914- [1988- online] • The Nation, 1865-

  24. 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.

  25. American Periodical Series

  26. New York Historical Archive, 1851-

  27. BL Newspaper Catalogue

  28. Newspapers & magazines • Ethnic Newswatch 1960s- • Black Journals [microform] • Time Magazine • 1923- http://www.time.com/time/archive/ • 1990- Oxford eJournals

  29. In microform • British sources relating to America in microfilm (BAAS) • VHL Guide to microfilms (Title/ subject) • Papers of individuals • Salmon Chase, William H Seward, Thaddeus Stevens, etc. • Papers of organisations • American Colonization Society, American Home Missionary Society Papers, Freedmen’s Aid Society Records, Congress of Racial Equality Papers, NAACP Papers, etc.

  30. Official Papers: Finding Aids • GPO Monthly Catalog • Subject Index to Monthly Catalog • CIS indices • Public documents • Executive Branch documents • Congress publications • Congressional Hearings

  31. Official Papers • Congressional papers • American State Papers, 1789-1838 • US Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 [OxLIP+] US Congressional Serial Set, 1995- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ • Senate and House papers • Journals • Congressional records • Annals of Congress etc.

  32. US Serial Set, 1817-1994

  33. 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!!!

  34. American Memory > U S Congress 1774-1875

  35. 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

  36. Foreign Relations of the US Foreign relations of the US

  37. 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.

  38. DDRS

  39. DDRS DDRS

  40. Legal & constitutional history • HeinOnline (OxLIP+): • Statutes at Large • US Federal Legislative History Library • US Supreme Court Library

  41. HeinOnline: Statutes at Large

  42. 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)

  43. Historical Statistics of the US

  44. iPoll

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