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Starting Points for Nineteenth Century American History
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Primary Sources
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- Correspondence, autobiography, manuscripts, letters, sources, archives, diaries, papers, personal narratives
- Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Electronic Primary Sources
- 19th Century Masterfile
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- American Civil War Research Database
- American Civil War, Letters and Diaries
- American State Papers, 1789-1838
- Black Though and Culture: African Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
- Chicago Tribune, 1848-20 years ago
- Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
- Early American imprints. Series 1, Evans, 1639-1800
- Early American imprints. Series 2, Shaw--Shoemaker, 1801-1819
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
- Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online, 1543-1945
- Harper’s Weekly
- HeinOnline
- Historical Statistics of the United States
- Making of Modern Law : Legal Treatises 1800-1926.
- Making of Modern Law. Trials, 1600-1926
- New York Times, 1851- 4 years ago
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
- Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
- Public documents masterfile
- Steaming West: Railway Activity Westward Through Kansas, 1860-1890
- Territorial Kansas Online
- United States Congressional Serial Set
- U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
- Victorian Popular Culture
- Washington Post
- Women and Social Movements in the United States
Biographical Resources
Historiography and Guides to Historical Literature
- Barney, William L., ed. A Companion to 19th-Century America. Malden, MA: Blackwell 2001. E338 .C85 2001
- Boles, John B., ed. A Companion to the American South. Malden: Blackwell, 2002. F208.2 .C66 2002
- Deloria, Philip Joseph, and Neal Salisbury, eds. A Companion to American Indian History. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. Ref E77 .C74 2002
- Deverell, William, ed. A Companion to the American West. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. F591 .C738 2004
- Ford, Lacy K. , ed. A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Malden: MA: Blackwell, 2005. E468.5 C64 2005
- Freidel, Frank Burt., ed. Harvard Guide to American History. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974. Ref Z1236 .H27 1974
- Halttunen, Karen, ed. A Companion to American Cultural History. Maldwen, MA: Blackwell, 2008. E169.1 C684 2008
- Hewitt, Nancy A., ed. A Companion to American Women’s History. Malden, MA; Blackwell, 2002. HQ1410 .C63 2002
- Hornsby, Alton, ed. A Companion to African American History. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. E185 .C66 2005
- Norton, Mary Beth, ed. The American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Ref Z6201. A55 1995
- Parish, Peter, J., ed. Reader’s Guide to American History. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Ref E178.1 R43 1997
- Pursell, Carroll, ed. A Companion to American Technology. Malden: MA, 2005. Spahr Engineering Library T21 .C65 2005
- Schulzinger, Robert D., ed. A Companion to American Foreign Relations. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. E 183.7 C658 2003
- Ueda, Reed. , ed. A Companion to American Immigration. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. JV6465 .C74 2006
Encyclopedias and Reference Works
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec, Elliot J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Social History. New York: Scribner, 1993. Ref HN57 .E58 1993
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec, and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. New York: Scribners, 2001. Ref E169.1 E624 2001
- DeConde, Alexander, Richard Dean Burns, and Fredrick Logevall, eds. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. 2d ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002. Ref E183.7 .E52 2002
- Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ref E 185 .E545 2006
- ________. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001. Ref E169.1 .E626 2001
- Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Ref E468 .E53 2000
- Kross, Jessica, et al. American Eras. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Ref E169.1 .A471979 1997
- Kutler, Stanley I., ed. Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002. Ref E174 .D52 2003
- Levinson, David and Melvin Ember, eds. American Immigrant Cultures. New York, MacMillan Reference, 1997. Ref E184 .A1 A63448 1997
- Lowery, Charles D. and John F. Marszalek, eds. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights. 2d ed. West Port, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. Ref E 185.61 .E54 2003
- Malinowski, Sharon, ed. The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Ref E77 .G15 1998
- Phillips, Charles and Alan Axelrod. Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Ref F591 .E485 1996
- Ruiz, Vicki L. and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds. Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Ref E184 .S75 L35 2006
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