American History 

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Abstracts & Indexes, Bibliographies, Biographies, Data, Statistics, & Facts, Dictionaries & Thesauri, Encyclopedias, Guides & Manuals, Laws, Regulations, Judicial Rulings, Library Catalogs, Primary Sources, Yearbooks

Abstracts & Indexes

• America: History and Life -
• American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900 -
• Black Thought and Culture -
• Historical New York Times -
• In the First Person -
• International Index to Black Periodicals -
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature -

Bibliographies

• History of American Women’s Voluntary Organizations, 1810-1960: A Guide to Sources -
• Humanities E-Book -
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) -
• United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive bibliography -

Biographies

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries -
• Oxford African American Studies Center -
• Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary -

Data, Statistics, & Facts

• CQ Almanac -
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition) -
• Working Americans 1880-1999 -

Dictionaries & Thesauri

• Dictionary of American History -

Encyclopedias

• African American Almanac -
• African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience -
• American Decades -
• Americans at War -
• Dictionary of American History -
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History -
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy -
• Encyclopedia of American Social History -
• Encyclopedia of American Social Movements -
• Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security -
• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution -
• Encyclopedia of the Great Depression -
• Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History -
• Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture -
• Oxford African American Studies Center -
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History -
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America -
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States -
• St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide -
• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture -
• The ABC-Clio Companion to The 1960s Counterculture in America -

Guides & Manuals

• Guide to Historical Research with Government Publications, 1789-1989 -

Laws, Regulations, Judicial Rulings

• LexisNexis Congressional -

Library Catalogs

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) -

Primary Sources

• African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience -
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries -
• American Memory Collection -
• Black Thought and Culture -
• Digital National Security Archive -
• Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 -
• Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy -
• Early Encounters in North America -
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Electronic Reading Room -
• Historic Document Series -
• Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights, 1892-2000 -
• Historical New York Times -
• In the First Person -
• National Archives Archival Database (AAD) -
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories -
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries -
• Oxford African American Studies Center -
• Virtual Vietnam Archive -
• Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 -

Yearbooks

• CQ Almanac -

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Abstracts & Indexes, Dictionaries & Thesauri, Encyclopedias, Guides & Manuals, Internet Search Engines, Library Catalogs, Primary Sources, Quotations

Abstracts & Indexes

• Academic Search Premier -
• EBSCOhost Databases -
• GoogleBooks -
• INSPIRE Indiana Virtual Library -
• Web of Science -

Dictionaries & Thesauri

• Oxford Reference Online Premium -

Encyclopedias

• Credo Reference -
• Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure -
• Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics -
• Gale Virtual Reference Library -
• Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia -
• Oxford Reference Online Premium -

Guides & Manuals

• Finding Articles Tutorial -
• Helmke Library Tour -
• Information Literacy Tool Kits -
• Library of Congress Classification -
• Publishers and Booksellers -
• Publishing Guides -
• Searching IUCAT Tutorial -
• Style Guides -
• Writing Guides -

Internet Search Engines

• Google -
• Google Scholar -

Library Catalogs

• IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog) -

Primary Sources

• Early American Fiction, 1789 - 1875 -
• eHRAF Archaeology -
• eHRAF World Cultures -

Quotations

• Oxford Reference Online Premium -