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TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LIFE: 1870-1900 -- HIS 4545
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.3-v.4)  [Ref. E178.5 .A48 v.1-v.6 + Suppl.]
• Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas   [Ref. E179.5 .C37 1996]

Bibliographies

• 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. Z1236 .C33]

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]
• Dictionary of American Religious Biography   [Ref. BL72 .B68 1993]
• 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

• Dictionary of American History   [Ref. E174 .D52 1976 v.1-v.8 + Suppl. v.1-v.2]
• Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History   [Ref. E169.1 .E624 2001 v.1-v.3]
• 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]
• Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s   [Ref. E169.1 .G26 1992]
• Handbook of North American Indians   [Ref. E77 .H25 v.4-v.13, v.15, v.17]
• Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age   [Ref. E661 .H59 2003]

Primary Documents

• Annals of America (especially v.10-v.12)   [Ref. E173 .A793 v.1-v.21]
• Documents of American History (especially v.1)   [Ref. E173 .D59 1988 v.1-v.2]
• Handbook of American Popular Culture   [Ref. E169.1 .H2643 1989 v.1-v.3]
• Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents   [Ref. E173 .O77 1999]

General Collection & Videos

• For materials that can be checked out, look in the SPU Library Catalog using a keyword search such as:
  • <gilded age>
  • <united states and history and sources>
  • <women and history>
• May want to limit keyword search by: (1) Location: Reference; or (2) Material Type: Video/DVD/Film.
• 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.
• 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).