Research Guides: *United States History American History: Getting Started with American History

Best Bets for U.S. History

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Citations to journal articles on U.S. and Canadian history.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Search for and request books from libraries around the world.

Oxford Bibliographies
Annotated bibliographies in Atlantic History, African American Studies, and others give you the most influential sources by topic.

Topic Overviews

Oxford Encyclopedia of Social History
Information about the history of everyday life in America.
Atlantic History - Oxford Bibliography
Great starting point for research, with lists of relevant works by topic.

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Collection of authoritative histories.

Blackwell Companions to American History
Collections of essays on aspects of American history.
Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
Chronologies and extensive bibliographies including primary sources.

Article Databases

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history, with some articles that do not appear in JSTOR, including recent issues.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text searching of humanities and social science journals. May not include recent issues.

Researching People

Biographies published as books can be found in LibrarySearch by searching a name (last name, first name) as a Subject.

You can also find anthologies of biographies in LibrarySearch by searching for kinds of people plus the term "Biography" (e.g. African Americans Biography).

American National Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographies of prominent Americans, including images and bibliographies. Limited to one user at a time.

Oxford African American Studies Center: Biographies
Includes African American National Biography and Black Women in America.

Ancestry Library This link opens in a new window
Historical census records and city directories; the source most likely to contain information about less well-known people.
Unlike individual subscriptions to Ancestry.com, does not include the option of developing a linked online genealogy.

Social Science Librarian

Christine Murray

Contact:

Ladd Library 132
(207) 786-6268
cmurray2@bates.edu

I am usually at the Research Desk Mon. 10-1, Tues. 6-9, and Thurs. 1-4

Subjects: African Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Chinese, Economics, Environmental Studies, History, Japanese, Languages and Literatures, Legal Studies, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, U. S. History