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Selected E-Resources
Harvard Library's E-Research
Database offers the most comprehensive list of research tools. The Harvard Library has
also compiled a very helpful research guide for students in the History of American Civilization program:
http://guides.hcl.harvard.edu/amciv
The following
is an incomplete selection of e-resources related to American Studies.
Most of them require a Harvard ID and PIN. Links will open in a new window.
Current
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Arts and Letters Daily
- A service of the Chronicle of Higher Education, a collection of links to noteworthy articles, book reviews, and
opinion from many sources.
- TLS, the Times Literary
Supplement
- Full text available from 1902 to the present.
Biographical Encyclopedias & Reference Works
Biographical Databases
- The World Biographical Information System Index
- The World Biographical Information System Index organizes material from printed reference works published from the
16th to the 20th century, and includes people from all countries and regions worldwide. The WBIS Index Online database
provides name entries to short biographies on more than 3.6 million persons.
- Dictionary of American Biography
- The DAB--along with several other national and international biographical encyclopedias--is included in the larger Biography Resource Center.
- American
National Biography
- American National Biography is less comprehensive than the DAB,
but its entries are usually more recent.
- African American Biographical Database
- North American Indian Biographical Database
- Indexes and brings together more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, including works by Cadwallader Colden, William Apes, Samuel G. Drake and Benjamin Drake, autobiographies by Black Hawk, Okah Tubbee, Kah-Ga-Gah-Bowh, and gustirues if King Philip, Red Jacket, Sequoyah, Thayendanegea, Tomochichi, Standing Bear, Red Cloud, John Ross, and Geronimo. Additional materials bring coverage through the present day. Virtually all North American regions are represented. Nearly 500 nations represented in all.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (British)
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
- covers selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- CQ Encyclopedia of American Government
- Grove Music Online
- an integrated music resource that includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition).
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
- LION: Literature Online
- MagillOnLiterature Plus
- Contains a large collection of literary resources including review essays, plot summaries, character descriptions, and short biographical sketches of fiction writers, poets, dramatists, and philosophers.
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Online Reference Premium Edition
- Contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, as well as historical timelines.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Library Catalogs
- Hollis
- Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK)
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The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog allows you to search simultaneously the holdings of many major libraries in Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, France, Spain, and the UK; it functions then as a sort of European Union Catalog, and a counterpart to the mainly
US/Canadian WorldCat database in the e-resources list. Individual library catalogs may also be searched singly; their
availability and coverage of older materials varies. In addition, KVK provides access to the German Union Catalog of Serials
and to German book trade catalogs, including German Books in Print.
- RLG Union Catalog
- contains information for more than 45 million books, periodicals, recordings, scores, archival collections, and other kinds of material held in libraries and research institutions.
- Visual Information Access
- a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard and Radcliffe. It includes information about slides, photographs, objects and artifacts in the university's libraries, museums and archives.
- WorldCat
Archival Materials
- Ancestry Library Edition
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Extensive collection of vital records, directories, censuses, military records, and other material from the
United States and Canada, intended for genealogical research. Includes fully-indexed, full-text images of
United States federal census returns, 1790-1930.
- Archives and Manuscripts Finding Aids at Harvard/Radcliffe
- a partial listing of the finding aids for archival and manuscript materials found at Harvard University and Radcliffe College.
- Archive Grid
- an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
- ArchivesUSA
- contains summary descriptions of over 132,000 archival and manuscript collections in about 5,500 U.S. repositories.
- Digital National Security Archive
- The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. The Archive has become the world's largest non-governmental library of declassified documents.
- RLG Cultural Materials
- provides digital images of primary source materials, such as objects, manuscripts, maps, letters, sheet music, prints, photographs, broadsides, etc. from the collections of an international alliance of RLG (Research Library Group) libraries, museums, and archives.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 with American State Papers, 1789-1838
- The U.S. Congressional Serial Set and its forerunner, the American State Papers, consists of reports, documents and journals of U.S. Congress, and during much of the 19th century, reports originating in Executive Departments as well.
Electronic Book / Full Text Collections
- African-American Poetry Online (1750-1900) (Lion)
- African-American Poetry Online (20th Century) (Lion)
- American Drama (1750-1900) (Lion)
- American Film Scripts Online
- American Poetry (Literature Online)
- (See also Twentieth Century American Poetry (Lion) (1914-1997) )
- Archive of Americana (included in NewsBank InfoWeb)
- Includes Early American Imprints and Newspapers (mentioned below), as well as American State Papers, 1789-1838, and U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980. (NewsBank also includes AccessUN (1944-2005), the premier index to United Nations documents.)
- Asian American Drama
- Fully indexed, full-text database of more than 250 plays by Asian American dramatists, with related theatrical production and biographical material. Collection begins in the late 19th century.
- Black Drama
- Black Short Fiction
- Black Thought and Culture
- Declassified Documents Reference System Online
- Defining Gender Online: Five Centuries of Advice Literature for Men and Women (1450-1910)
- Digital Library at University of Pennsylvania
- Facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.
- Dissertation Abstracts (Dissertation and Theses Full Text)
- Early American Fiction (Lion) (1774-1850)
- Early American Imprints: Series I: 1639-1800; Series II: 1801-1819
- Early Encounters In North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
- Includes more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Americans on the North American continent between 1534-1860.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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- Empire On-Line
- The Empire On-Line provides access to images of original documents and printed materials relating to the British Empire in Africa, Australasia, the Americas, Oceania, and South Asia.
- Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1880
- Indexed full-text of Godey's Lady's Book, one of the most significant American periodicals of the 19th century, which published a wide variety of fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, music, and illustrations, including fashion plates.
- JSTOR
- Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- LION: Literature Online
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Lion) (1786-1900)
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
- North American Theatre Online
- North American Women's Drama
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- Oral History Online
- Past Masters
- The Past Masters series from InteLex Corporation comprises full-text electronic editions of works by major
philosophical figures, in both original language and in English translation. Areas covered include the history of political
thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and German studies. Texts include published and
unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence.
- Project Muse
- Networked access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by several university
presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
- SUR (1931-1992)
- One of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the 20th century, founded in 1931 by Victoria Ocampo.
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
- Provided by the Library of Congress (http://thomas.loc.gov)
- US Supreme Court Decisions
- Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000
- Topical database brings together books, documents, images, scholarly essays, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting aspects of American women's public lives and political activities.
Historical Periodicals & Newspapers
- American Historical Newspapers Online
- A Cornell University Library guide to locating digitized American newspapers for the period prior to the advent of electronic newspapers (before
1995).
- Early American Newspapers: Series I (1690-1876)
- American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
- Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
- Harper's Magazine Online Index
- An index to the full run of Harper's Magazine, with links to full text and page images.
- Historical Newspapers
- Combines four databases:
- Palmer's Index to the London Times (1790-1905) (Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870 , includes full articles referenced in Palmer's index.)
- The Official Index to the London Times (1906-1980)
- The Historical Index to the New York Times (1851-1922)
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Making of America
(See also the other half)
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Includes full text of the following journals:
- The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
- The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
- The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
- The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
- The Century (1881 - 1899)
- The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
- The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
- Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
- The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
- The Living Age (1844 - 1900)
- Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
- The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
- The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
- New Englander (1843 - 1892)
- The North American Review (1815 - 1900)
- The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
- Punchinello (1870)
- Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
- Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
- Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
- Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
- The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)
- The Nation: Digital Archive
- full text of the Nation from 1865.
- Periodicals Contents Index
- a database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
- Proquest Historical Newspapers
- Searchable full text database of several historical newspapers:
The collection also includes: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); New York
Amsterdam News (1922-1993); and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
- Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
- A rich archive U.S. cultural history, the online equivalent of 44 Readers' Guide annuals. Subjects covered: Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Archeology, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biographies, Business, Children, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Gardening, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Literature, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Popular Culture, Radio, Religion, Science, Sports, Technology, Television, Travel.
- The Times Digital Archive [London
Times]
- Full text available from 1785-1985.
Image Collections
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
- a searchable database of over 700,000 Associated Press photographs, charts and other graphics from the 1840s to the present.
- American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
- A collection of approximately 2,800 digitized lantern slide views of American buildings and landscapes, 1850-1920. The collection offers photographic views of cities, buildings, parks, estates, gardens, with some maps and plans, including works by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Bremer Pond and James Sturgis Pray, et al. There is a special section on Harvard University buildings.
- ARTstor
- a not-for-profit organization funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation whose purpose is to develop a database of digital images and accompanying scholarly information for use in art history and other humanistic fields of learning, including the related social sciences. Includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
- CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) (formerly AMICO)
- Contains digital images and detailed descriptions for over 115,000 works of art from major museums in the United States and Canada.
- Photographica
- Photographica is an interactive research guide for photographic studies research, created by Harvard College
librarians in collaboration with Harvard faculty and departments.
- Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
- More than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities.
- RLG Cultural Materials
- provides digital images of primary source materials, such as objects, manuscripts, maps, letters, sheet music, prints, photographs, broadsides, etc. from the collections of an international alliance of RLG (Research Library Group) libraries, museums, and archives.
- Visual Information Access
- a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard and Radcliffe. It includes information about slides, photographs, objects and artifacts in the university's libraries, museums and archives.
Indexes to Journal Articles, etc.
- Academic Search Premier
- a multi-disciplinary database that includes citations and abstracts from over 4,700 scholarly publications (journals, magazines and newspapers).
- America: History and Life
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (EBSCOhost) (1881-)
- indexes journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion. Citations cover all religions and all theological points of view. (PDF user guide provided by Harvard Divinity School)
- Bibliography of Native North Americans
- bibliographic database covering the history, life and culture of native North Americans. Compiled by Human Relations Area Files, it contains citations to works published from the sixteenth century to the present, including monographs, essays, journal articles, US and Canadian government documents and other publications.
- Google Scholar
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (RLG)
- Historical Abstracts
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (RLG)
- MLA International Bibliography
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography
- An authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the
present day, including Anglo-American material. Hosted by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London,
this online bibliography contains over 430,000 entries and the archive draws on hundreds of sources, including the British
National Bibliography and the well-regarded "inside" article database.
Reviews & Other Resources
- America: History and Life
- Dissertation Abstracts (Dissertation and Theses Full Text)
- Harvard-MIT Data Center
- H-Net Reviews
- JSTOR
- Project Muse
- Networked access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by several university
presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
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