Resources for American History Topics

 

 

Primary Sources

 

Words That Made America Great  973 Available at the Northeast Regional Library and the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Annals of America  REF 973 Annals Available at the Northeast Regional Library and the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

AMDOCS: Documents for the study of American History,

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

 

Our Documents

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/history/toc.htm

 

Biographical Encyclopedias

 

American National Biography  REF 920.073 Available at the Central Library's Department of History and Geography of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Great Lives from History, American Series R 920.073 G71 Available at the Central Library's Department of History and Geography of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

 

Historical Studies  before 1960

 

Chronicles of America  (series title) Yale University Press  973  Available at the Central Library's Department of History and Geography of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

 
Problems in American Civilization (series title).  D.C. Heath and Company  973 P 94   Available at the Central Library's Department of History and Geography of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

 

Historical Studies  contemporary scholarship

 

Fonar, Eric and John Garraty, editors.  The Reader’s Companion to American History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991.  REF 973.03 REA Available at the Central Library's Department of History and Geography of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

 

WWW.VL History: United States (web portal)

http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/index.html

 

American Studies (popular works)

 

American Heritage  A popular magazine of various studies in American History. The Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia holds all issues dating back to the magazine's beginning issues.  The EbscoHost database has all articles in full text from 1990 to the present.

 

USIS.  Outline of American History.  http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/history/toc.htm

 

Resources for Teaching

 

History Matters

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

 

Special Web Sites

 

The American President. http://www.americanpresident.org/

 

Yahoo Directory : 19th C. American Westward Expansion http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/19th_Century/American_West/

 

Yahoo Directory:  American History, Women’s History

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Subject/Women_s_History/

 

Yahoo Directory: American History, Maritime History

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Subject/Maritime_History/

 

Yahoo Directory: African American History.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cultures/American__United_States_/African_American/History/

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A. Martha, January 2004, Revised for Fels High School, October 21, 2005                    

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