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JACKSONIAN AMERICA: 1820-1850 -- HIS 4525/HIS 4899
RESEARCH RESOURCES

General

• Everyday Writer (MLA & APA citation styles)   [Rdy. Ref. PE1408 .L86 2002]

• Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing   [Ref. D16 .B893 2002]

Atlases & Pictorial Histories

• Album of American History (especially v.2, 1783-1853)  [Ref. E178.5 .A48 v.1-v.6 + Suppl.]
• Atlas of Westward Expansion   [Ref. E179.5 .W49 1995]
• Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas   [Ref. E179.5 .C37 1996]
• Mapping the West: America’s Westward Movement, 1524-1890   [Ref. F590.6 .C65 2002]

Autobiographies, Diaries, & Letters  (also see the "Primary Documents" section)

• American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals   [Ref. CT214 .A757 1983 v.1-v.2]
• And So To Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English   [Ref. CT25 .H385 1987]
• Annotated Bibliography of Published Women’s Diaries   [Ref. CT3230 .B44 1977]
• Published Diaries and Letters of American Women   [Ref. CT3260 .G663 1987]

Bibliographies

• American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature   [Ref. D20 .A55 1995 v.1-v.2]
• American Social History Before 1860   [Ref. E169.1 .A483 1970]
• Guide to the Study of the United States of America   [Ref. E178 .L537 1960 + Suppl.]
• Harvard Guide to African-American History   [Ref. E185 .H326 2001 + Circ/Reserves E185 .H326 2001 CD ROM]
• Harvard Guide to American History   [Ref. Z1236 .F77 1974 v.1-v.2]
• History Highway 2000: A Guide to Internet Resources   [Ref. D16.255.C65 H58 2000]
• History of the United States of America: A Guide to Information Sources   [Ref. E178 .C377 1977]

Biographies

• Abridged Biography and Genealogy Master Index   [Ref. CT214 .B572 1988 v.1-v.3]
• American National Biography (successor to Dictionary of American Biography)   [Ref. CT213 .A68 1999 v.1-v.24 + 2002 Suppl. 1]
• Dictionary of American Negro Biography   [Ref. E185.96 .D53 1982]
• Dictionary of American Religious Biography   [Ref. BL72 .B68 1993]
• Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography   [Ref. F596 .T515 1988 v.1-v.3]
• Research Guide to American Historical Biography   [Ref. CT214 .R47 1988 v.1-v.4]

Chronologies

• America in Time   [Ref. E174.5 .J46]
• Chronology of the American West: From 23,000 B.C.E. through the Twentieth Century   [Ref. F591 .Z46 2002]
• Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates   [Ref. E174.5 .C3 1997]
• Encyclopedia of American History   [Ref. E174.5 .E52 1996]
• People's Chronology   [Ref. D11 .T83 1992]
• Timetables of American History   [Ref. E18.5 .T553 2001]

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• African American Encyclopedia   [Ref. E185 .A253 1993 v.1-v.8]
• Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1850s in America   [Ref. E426 .G147 1993]
• Dictionary of American History   [Ref. E174 .D52 2003 v.1-v.10]
• Encyclopedia of the American West   [Ref. F591 .E485 1996 v.1-v.4]
• Encyclopedia of the South   [Ref. F207.7 .E53 1992]
• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century   [Ref. E169.1 .E626 2001 v.1-v.3]
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America   [Ref. E184.A1 G14 1995 v.1-v.2]
• Major Acts of Congress  (timeline in back of each vol. pointing to legislation)   [Ref. KF154 .M35 2004 v.1-v.3]

Primary Documents  (also see the "Autobiographies, Diairies, & Letters" section)

• African-American Archive: The History of the Black Experience in Documents   [Ref. E184.6 .A33 2001]
• Annals of America (especially v.4-v.8)   [Ref. E173 .A793 v.1-v.21]
• Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1926   [Ref. E173 .M129 1926]
• Documents of American History   [Ref. E173 .D59 1988 v.1-v.2]
• Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents   [Ref. E173 .O77 1999]
• Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1776-1861   [Ref. E173 .M13]

General Collection

• For materials that can be checked out, look in the SPU Library Catalog using a keyword search such as:
  • <slavery>
  • <19^th century and sources>
  • <west (U.S.) and diaries>
  • <women and history>
• For materials that can be checked out about a person, look in the SPU Library Catalog using a subject search such as:
  • <Fremont, John>
  • <Tubman, Harriet>
• Look for applicable subject headings in the cataloging records to which you might want to link.

Periodical Indexes & Image/Full Text

• SPU -- paper periodical indexes (also see listing below for "University of Washington" under the heading "Obtaining Resources from Other Libraries")

  • America, History and Life   [1954-1981; Index Shelf on wall next to Library Instructional Classroom]

  • Historical Abstracts   [1955-1982; Index Shelf on wall next to Library Instructional Classroom]

• Off-campus login required from SPU Databases web page.
• EBSCOhost databases:
  • Academic Search Premier (general) -- indexing & abstracts; some image/full text.
  • ATLA Religion Database (religious perspectives on social issues) -- indexing & abstracts; seamless access to some image/full text from other EBSCOhost indexes.
• ProQuest database:
  • Research Library Complete (general) -- indexing & abstracts; some image/full text.
• JSTOR (journal storage; image articles of some history, political science, & other social sciences titles; moving wall excludes most recent 2-5 years).
• E-Journal Portal (direct access to SPU's image/full text periodical collection; indirect access through databases).

Obtaining Resources from Other Libraries

• Summit Borrowing -- obtain books through Orbis Cascade Alliance library consortium within 3 working days. Access through SPU catalog or directly through consortium Summit union catalog.  Borrow only books with Summit Borrowing.
• WorldCat -- an SPU database showing the books held in library collections throughout the U.S.  Borrow only books with WorldCat.
• Interlibrary Loan ("ILL") -- use if no other ILL requesting feature available.  Borrow both books and photocopies of periodical articles from libraries in U.S.
• University of Washington -- books available through Summit Borrowing; books available for check out with current SPU ID card at UW Libraries; periodicals available for use at UW Libraries; periodical databases available for use on public-access terminals at UW Libraries (e.g., America, History and Life and Historical Abstracts).