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* Most research in U.S. History should start with books
* Call numbers for books covering U.S.History will begin with E or F 		 * For a very specific topic, journals articles are also useful
* Primary sources can be found in books, articles, reference books, or Internet resources
Resources for Research Help
 
America: History & Life (AHL)
*lists citations and short summaries of journal articles and dissertations
*covers United States and Canadian historical events from prehistory to the present
*covers items published from 1964 to present
*access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		Some items available in the library or on your computer HELP:More about AHL
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History Resource Center: United States
*Approximately 100,000 pages of more than 1000 primary documents, many with corresponding facsimile pages
*Nearly 100 scholarly full-text journals, as well as citations from 180 titles
*covers U.S. history from 1900 to the present
 *More than 2,000 images and maps
*access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		Most items available on your computer

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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
*provides access to 29,000 titles (more than 6 million pages of text) and offers original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition.
*consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides and documents from sermons and political tracts to legislation and literature.
*Takes works from Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time and makes them available online
*access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP:More about Sabin Americana
 
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
*contains 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes)
*contains Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles
*contains materials ranging from books and directories to Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements
*access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		Most items available on your computer HELP:More about ECCO
Cambridge Histories Online
* Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960
* Covers over 15 different academic subjects
* Volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse
* Access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		Most items available in the library or on your computer HELP:More about Cambridge Histories Online
Project MUSE
HELP:includes full-text of articles from scholarly journals
HELP:covers social sciences, arts, and humanities
HELP:covers items published from 1993 to present
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JSTOR
HELP:contains the full text of articles from scholarly journals
HELP:covers a wide variety of subjects such as history, literature, biology, business, and African-American studies
HELP:articles published from early 1900s to 2 or 3 years ago.
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CQ Historic Documents Series: Online Edition
*Contains over 2,500 primary documents
*covers history, government, and political science
*includes 1972 through the present
*access from on-campus or off-campus with an APSU ID 		All items available on your computer *More about Historic Documents
Academic Search Premier
* contains indexing for 8,200 publications
* contains full text for more than 4,650 titles
* PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over 100 journals
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		Most items available in the library or on your computer HELP:More about Academic Search Premier
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HeritageQuest Online
* includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses
* offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories
* provides access to more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		Most items available on your computer HELP: More about HeritageQuest
Oral History Online
* Provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world
* Provides keyword searching of almost 281,000 pages of full-text by close to 10,000 individuals from all walks of life
* Contains pointers to over 4,100 audio and video files and almost 19,000 bibliographic records
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about Oral History Online
In the First Person
* In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories
* allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals
* It locates and links to full text, audio, and video files at thousands of scholarly Web sites and archives
* a one-stop starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to analyze human experiences
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about In the First Person
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
* Combines all of the content from Alexander Street’s seven award-winning collections of letters, diaries, and oral histories together with a growing archive of additional content
* Combined, the materials in this vast collection offer something entirely new and critically important for history research—personal, contemporaneous, first-person accounts
* Access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about Social and Cultural History
Southern Life
* contains nearly 5 million full-text articles on topics that relate directly to Southern living
* contains data from a wide range of publications such as academic journals, newspapers, and authoritative reference works
* includes both past and present, people, places, historical events, and more
*access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		Most items available in the library or on your computer HELP:More about Southern Life
 
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
* knits together more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs
* includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text
* includes 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
* documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850
*  collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists
* brings coherence to a wide range of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, letters and images of maps
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
* provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada.
*  more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories
* materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1890 to 1920 
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
*  includes approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts
*  material is drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings,
* the writings provide a detailed record of what women wore, what they ate, what they read, the conditions under which they worked, and how they amused themselves
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Indian Thought and Culture  
* brings together more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find
*  The collection presents the entire spectrum of native peoples’ experiences from their own point of view
* In addition to biographies, included is a detailed timeline of Indian events,  more than 20,000 photographs, and more than 2,000 oral histories, presented in audio and transcript form.
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about North American Indian Thought and Culture
Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society
* Brings together 100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts
*  The collection is drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of the American Antiquarian Society
* Spanning 1750 to 1950, the database is particularly strong in nineteenth-century material
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about Women’s Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society
Women and Social Movements in the United States
* brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life
* This resource examines perspectives on women’s social movements from colonial times to the present
* Includes primary documents, published materials, and research tools
* access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID 		All items available on your computer HELP: More about Women and Social Movements in the United States
FMG Streaming Video
*Each video title requires the latest version of Windows Media Player
*On screen viewing instructions are provided within the FMG interface. 
*14 video titles available on various topics from American & British literature
*15 video titles available on various topics from history, religion, and theater		 All items available on your computer HELP:More about FMG OnDemand Video
 
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
*links to journals with full-text articles 
*covers all subjects
*covers articles from the mid-1990's to the present
*access from anywhere 		Some items available in the library or on your computer HELP:More about DOAJ
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
*provides the ability to search multiple eBooks at once
*covers wide range of subjects
*individual chapters can be printed, downloaded, and e-mailed
*citations can be exported in MLA and APA format
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Facts on File
*includes news stories, summaries of controversial issues, science news, an almanac and an encyclopedia
*covers international news and current events
*covers items published 1940-present
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Internet resources
* authoritative, credible, and reliable Web sites
* selected for accuracy and relevance to the subjects taught at APSU
* updated regularly
* access from anywhere 		All items available on your computer HELP:How to search the Internet
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Additional books may be identified through:  
*Other Libraries' Catalogs: local and national
*Books in Print: books available from publishers
*WorldCat: catalog of libraries worldwide
*Online Books Page: Books freely available on the web
* These books are not usually in the APSU Library, but you may request them. 		Some items  available in the library or on your computer HELP:More about Books In Print
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