HIST A314 U.S. History, 1919-1945 

When conducting historical research:

FIRST. Use specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, and textbooks to identify who, what, when, where, how and why.

SECOND. Use the references cited at the end of chapters or articles in textbooks, specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, and guides, and specialized bibliographies to identify the core scholarly research on your topic or research problem.

THIRD. Use databases and indexes to update core scholarly research with current scholarly material.

FOURTH. Identify and obtain as much primary source material as possible. A primary source documents first-hand accounts or first recordings of events. The historian using a number of such primary sources produces a secondary source. Examples of primary source materials include letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, government documents, statistics, photographs, etc. Consult the History librarian for help in locating primary source materials.

General

American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 2 vols. (Reference D28 .A55 1995)

Dictionary of American History, 10 vols.(Reference E174 .D52 2003)

African-American History

African-American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (Reference E184.65 .A37 2001)

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Reference E185.86 .B542 1993)

Blacks in the American Armed Forces, 1776-1983: A Bibliography (Reference E185.63 .D38 1985)

Civil Rights in the United States, 2 vols. (Reference E184.A1 C47 2000)

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present (Reference E185.61 .E54 1992)

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2006.

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945 (Reference PS153.N5 R65 1990)

Harvard Guide to African American History (Reference E185 .H326 2001)

Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations (Reference E185.5 .O74 2001)

Oxford African American Studies Center (Oxford University Press)

W.E.B. DuBois: An Encyclopedia (Reference E185.97.D73 W64 2001)

Economic Depression

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History

Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression (Reference E801 .H57 2001)

Foreign Policy

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2002.

Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, 4 vols. (Reference E183.7 .E53 1997)

Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A Reference Guide to U.S. Involvement in Latin American and the Caribbean (Reference F1418 .D458 1999)

Immigration

American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation (Reference E184 .A1 1997)

Dictionary of American Immigration History (Reference JV6450 .D53 1990)

Encyclopedia of American Immigration, 4 vols. (Reference JV6465 .E53 2001)

Jewish People in America: A Time for Searching, Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945, vol. 4 (Reference E184.J5 F3765 1992)

Intellectual and Social Life

American History Through Literature 1870-1920

Encyclopedia of American Social History, 3 vols. (Reference HN57 .E58 1993)

Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, 4 vols. (Reference HN57 .E574 2004)

Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture, 4 vols. (Reference E169.1 .G7555 2005)

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945 (Reference PS153.N5 R65 1990)

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Ku Klux Klan

The Invisible Empire: A Bibliography of the Ku Klux Klan (Reference E668.K8 F54 1980)

The Ku Klux Klan: A Bibliography (Reference E668.K8 D38 1984)

Labor

Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Reference HD5324 .L32 1990)

Labor Unions (Reference HD6508 .L234 1977)

Working Americans, 1880-1999: vol. 1 Working Class; vol. 2 Middle Class; vol. 3 Upper Class; vol. 4 Their Children, vol. 5 Americans at War; vol. 6 Women at Work (Reference HD8066 .D47 2000)

Politics and Government

American Presidential Campaigns and Elections, 3 vols. (Reference JK1965 .A57 2003)

Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas, 3 vols. (Reference E183 .E5 1984)

Encyclopedia of the American Left (Reference HX86 .E58 1998)

Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, 4 vols. (Reference JK511 .E53 1994)

Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics, 2 vols. (Reference E184.A1 E574 2000)

Encyclopedia of the Political Anarchy (Reference HX830 .G39 1999)

Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America, 3 vols. (Reference JK2261 .E474 2000)

Historical Dictionary of the New Deal: From Inauguration to Preparation for War (Reference E806 .H58 1985)

Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Reference JK2261 .P633 1991)

Women

Antifeminism in American Thought: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Z7964.U49 K56 1986)

Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics (Reference HQ1236.5.U6 E53 1999)

Encyclopedia of Women's History in America (Reference HQ1410 .C85 1996)

The History of American Women's Voluntary Organizations, 1810-1960: A Guide to Sources (Reference Z7964.U49 B53 1989)

Women and the American Left: A Guide to Sources (Reference Z7964.U49 B84 1983)

Women Building Chicago 1790-1990 (Reference HQ1439.C47 W66 2001)

Women in Modern American Politics: A Bibliography, 1900-1995 (Reference HQ1236.5.U6 C69 1996)

Women's Rights On Trial : 101 Historic Trials from Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute Cadets (Reference KF220.G76 F76 1997)

World War II

ABC Clio Companion to the American Peace Movement in the Twentieth Century (Reference JX1961.U6 L3 1994)

Americans at War

Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and American Experience of War (Reference PN1995.9.W3 W48 1992)

Encyclopedia of the American Military, 3 vols. (Science Reference UA23 .E56 1994)

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 4 vols. (Reference D804.3 .E53 1990)

A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History, Supplements I-IV (Reference E181 .M5 G83)

Louis L. Snyder's Historical Guide to World War II (Reference D470 .S65 1982)

World War II from an American Perspective: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Z6207.W8 W67 1983).

World War II in Europe, Africa and the Americas with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Reference D743.42.W67 1997)

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)

Content:	Provides abstracts and indexing of articles in nearly 8,000 popular magazines, scholarly journals, and major newspapers, updated daily, in a wide range of fields including business, education, science and technology, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences, with nearly 4,000 titles available full text. Limit to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles or full-text articles only, if desired. Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1975 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s. A complete list of titles covered is available.
Access:	Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). Other Indiana residents with an Internet service provider not based in Indiana (AOL, MSN, EarthLink, etc.) must first register for an INSPIRE password account.
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America: History and Life (ABC-CLIO)

Content:	Bibliographic references with abstracts to journal articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, 1967 to present. Also included are references to book and media reviews and to dissertations. Updated monthly.
Access:	Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). IPFW library owns the printed index 1954-1981 (Reference Z1236 .A48). IPFW's license allows six simultaneous users.
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Historical New York Times (ProQuest)

Content:	Provides full-text PDF page images of the New York Daily Times from 1851-1857 and New York Times from 1857 to two years ago. Cover-to-cover content includes news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, supplements, and advertisements, as well as the content of the New York Times Magazine and New York Times Book Review. Some images contributed by independent journalists and writers may not be available via ProQuest Historical Newspapers due to the Supreme Court's Tasini copyright ruling; in these cases, the microfilm edition is the authoritative source for archival access.
Access:	Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). IPFW library owns the New York Times (Microfilm 1890 to present), in the microfilm cabinets. For current coverage, use the printed New York Times (in Current Periodicals Reading Lounge, held until microfilm is received). Also available via LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) (1980 to present) or National Newspapers (ProQuest) (1999 to present).
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LexisNexis Congressional (LexisNexis)

Content:	LexisNexis Congressional provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. With LexisNexis Congressional, you can search for Committee Prints, 1830 to present, Hearings, 1824 to present, House and Senate Documents, 1817 to present, House and Senate Reports, 1819 to present, the United States Serial Set, 1789-1969, retrieve LexisNexis Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970, track and find the text of House and Senate bills, 1989 to the present, search the Congressional Record, United States Code, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, and locate information about members, such as voting records, campaign finance data, and Congressional activities. An online guide is available after IPFW authentication. Select the Help button from the search screen.
Access:	Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). IPFW library owns the printed CIS Annual 1970-2000 (Reference KF49.C62) and the printed CIS U.S. Serial Set Index, 1789-1969 (Government Publications Reference Z1223.Z9C65 1975).
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Oxford African American Studies Center (Oxford University Press)

Content:	The core content includes more than 7,500 articles from the classic encyclopedia Africana and from the new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 and its forthcoming companion Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America, and the African American National Biography. In addition the Center includes selected articles from the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and other major reference titles. Over 1,000 images, primary sources with written commentaries and over 100 maps and charts offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.
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Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)

Content:	Contains over 400 journals, providing access to over 1.2 million articles. Periodicals Archive Online covers the humanities and social sciences in 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 60 foreign-language titles, of value to both customers in English-speaking countries and internationally. Periodicals Archive Online now hosts content from the new collection British Periodicals. When complete, British Periodicals Collection I will contain more than 160 periodicals from the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest)

Content:	PCI Web covers many scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues (The earliest is 1780) through 1995. It includes an entry for each article or book review appearing on the table of contents page of each issue. The scope is international, with journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. In early 1998 PCI included over eight million articles in 2,006 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than one million more articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA)

Content:	CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts includes the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of books, dissertations, films, software and international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, labor relations, and public administration/policy. The database indexes approximately 1,304 titles and contains over 400,000 records.  Many records from key journals in political science, published since 2000, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference. All records added since 2000 are indexed using a thesaurus of over 3,000 terms.
Access:	Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). IPFW library owns ABC Pol Sci, 1969-1991 (Reference Z7161.A214).
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Identify and obtain as much primary source material as possible. A primary source documents first-hand accounts or first recordings of events. The historian using a number of such primary sources produces a secondary source. Examples of primary source materials include letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, government documents, statistics, photographs, etc. Consult the History librarian for help in locating specific primary source materials.

Documents of American Diplomacy From the American Revolution to the Present (Reference E183.7 .D63 2002)

Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement (Reference E185.61 .D64 1992)

Federal Writer's Project: A Bibliography (Reference Z1247 .B74 1994)

Gallup Poll Public Opinion 1935-1971, 3 vols. (Reference HN90.P8 G17 1935-1971)

I Too Am America: Documents from 1619 to the Present (Reference E185 .C79 1979)

National Party Platforms 1840-1968 (Reference JK2255 .P6 1970)

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Reference Z6620.U5 N3, 1959-1982; Online to present)

Historical New York Times (ProQuest), 1857 to present (Microfilm AP2 .N55)

United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 2 vols. (Reference Z7964.U49 H85 1993)

Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History (Reference HQ1236.5.U6 W68 1994)

History American and British

Sponsored by Rutgers University the goal of this site is to provide a searchable structure for the scholarly resources of American and British history available on the Internet. Categories include reference sources, history gateways and text sites, titles by historic period, archival and manuscript guides, and other net resources.

World-Wide Web Virtual Library's History Index sponsored by the University of Kansas, this site is the largest index to history Internet sources.

While the WWW is not as useful as a general research tool for secondary scholarly literature, it is becoming an excellent source for digitized collections of primary source material.

General

American Decades Primary Sources American Decades Primary Sources includes full or excerpted primary sources in 160-170 entries from the period representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and photos and illustrations. Each American Decades Primary Sources volume includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library consists of collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history. 

American Memory Collections: Time: 1900-1929 and American Memory Collections: Time: 1930-1949 provide listings of the American Memory Collections by time period.

History American and British Sponsored by Rutgers University the goal of this site is to provide a searchable structure for the scholarly resources of American and British history available on the Internet.  Categories include reference sources, history gateways and text sites, titles by historic period, archival and manuscript guides, and other net resources.

In the First Person (Alexander Street Press) An index with citations linking to the full-text, audio, and video letters, diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives available on the Web. Includes links to oral histories from Ellis Island, slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive at the California Digital Library and others. Also includes links to Alexander Street's history databases including North American Women's Letters and Diaries, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, Black Thought and Culture, and North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories.

World Wide Web-Virtual Library (WWW-VL): History: United States this site is the largest index to history Internet sources.

WPA Life Histories--1936-1940 These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000 15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations.

African American History

Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press) Contains the works of more than 900 historically important African Americans authors, dating from Colonial times to present. The collection was designed as a research tool in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art and contains selected issues of the Black Panther Party newspaper.

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia promotes the scholarly examination of historical and contemporary expressions of racism and serves as a resource for civil rights and human rights organizations.

Oxford African American Studies Center (Oxford University Press) The core content includes more than 7,500 articles from the classic encyclopedia Africana and from the new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 and its forthcoming companion Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America, and the African American National Biography. In addition the Center includes selected articles from the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and other major reference titles. Over 1,000 images, primary sources with written commentaries and over 100 maps and charts offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

Economic Depression

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show, in the early years, rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs.

Voices from the Dust Bowl Covering a period between 1940 and 1941, this collection documents the lives of Dust Bowl migrants living in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps in California. It provides searchable access to 371 audio titles (in RealAudio and .wav formats) including songs, interviews and recordings of camp meetings, 23 graphic images, a sampling of the recording discs' dust jackets, and all the print material in the Migrant Worker Collection, including the full text of more than 100 songs.

Immigration

Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources These primary source documents focus on some of the leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries: immigration and multiculturalism. It contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. Also included is an introduction to the topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press) Provides a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada based upon personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Includes several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980.

Politics and Government

Digital Images from the American Radicalism Collection This collection contains scanned copies of more than 100 pamphlets published by political and social pressure groups in the U.S. The groups include the Ku Klux Klan, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Asian-Americans. In addition there is material from the Rosenberg Case, Sacco Vanzetti Case, Scottsboro Boys, and Wounded Knee.

FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room After 1975 many FBI files became open to the public. Thousands of pages of documents have been scanned and made available on the FBI’s Web site. These include files on such groups and persons as the Ku Klux Klan, Eliot Ness, gangsters from the 1930s, Sacco/Vanzetti, Amelia Earhart, FDR assassination attempt.

New Deal Network A research and teaching resource devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. At the core of NDN is a database of more than 3,000 photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the Depression and New Deal period). Includes an excellent annotated list of online resources for teachers and students.

Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources These primary source documents focus on some of the leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries dealing with government, politics, and protests. It contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. Also included is an introduction to the topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index.

Presidential Libraries System Provides a link to the presidential libraries from Herbert Hoover to William Jefferson Clinton.

Red Scare, 1918-1921 An image database from a period in US history following World War I when '"Reds", "Anarchists", [and] "Outside Foreign Born Radical Agitators"' were persecuted through the Alien and Sedition Act and "mass round ups and deportations of foreign born citizens" occurred. Each image includes an explanatory caption. The images were scanned from newspapers and magazines and include photographs, political cartoons, and other illustrations.

Women

American Women's History: A Research Guide maintained by Middle Tennessee State University. The site provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) Contains more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters detailing experiences of more than 1,300 women, dating from Colonial times to 1950. Drawn from more than 600 sources, some 8,000 of the pages are previously unpublished materials. The collection contains many biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press) A searchable collection of "primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930.  It is organized around editorial projects" each of which "poses a question and provides 15 20 documents that address the question."  They address specific topics, such as Lucretia Mott's Reform Network; Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woman Suffrage, 1900 1915; Workers and Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909 1910; Women's Peace Mission to European Capitals, 1915; Women and the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912; Women Suffragists; Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s, and more.

World War II

World War II Resources maintained by Purdue University provides access to primary source materials on the Web regarding all aspects of the war.

The style guide required for this course is the Chicago Manual of Style. The latest edition is located at the Service Desk (Reference Z253 .U69 2003). Turabian and Chicago Styles Citations (University of California Berkeley Library) provides examples and basic guidelines for citing sources using the Chicago Style. Using Chicago Style to Cite and Document Sources provides guidelines for citing Internet sources.