Liaison
This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in American history plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library’s first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.
Liaison in charge: Hope Yelich
Research: Getting Started @ Swem
Database/Article Indexes
Print Resources
Background Information
Research Guides
Web Resources
- Academic Info: United States History Gateway
Extensive and well-organized site with general resources and gateways to subject-specific sites. An independent subject directory maintained by Mike Madin, formerly of the law library at the University of Washington.
- American Civil War Homepage
A ongoing project of the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences, provides links to the most useful electronic files about the American Civil War
- American Historical Association
A professional organization for American historians studying all periods and places
- American Women’s History: A Research Guide
Links related to women's history, including a section on primary sources. Maintained by Ken Middleton at Middle Tennessee State University.
- Center for Research Libraries
Swem Library is a member of the Center for Research Libraries, which entitles us to borrow from its vast collection of research materials. Once you identify something from its catalog, ask our Interlibrary Loan Department to get it for you, free of charge.
- Current Value of Old Money
Links to sources that help answer the question "how much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth today?"
- Guide to History Departments Around the World
From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. A searchable database to links to more than 2,000 history departments around the world. Also database of the best history sites on the web, and essays about putting history in digital form.
- H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Hosted at Michigan State University, H-Net sponsors over 100 discussion lists and provides full-text book and multimedia reviews, a job guide, and other initiatives.
- History Writing Resources Center
Part of W&M's History Department, the HWRC offers free services in teaching research and writing. The consultants there have compiled the following handouts, available at the center and online through their site: Writing a History Paper: The Basics; The Comma; Documentation Rules; Documenting Books; Documenting Electronic Sources; Documenting Periodicals and Miscellaneous Sources; History Exam-Taking Hints; Interesting Intros.
- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Alderman Library, University of Virginia
General and chronologically based links to resources in American Studies, including history.
- NUCMC: National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Known as NUCMC (pronounced "Nuckmuck") this site from the Library of Congress provides keyword searching of descriptions of manuscript collections in American libraries. It is extremely useful for locating the primary collection of the papers of an individual as well as letters to and from the individual in other people’s papers.
- 19th Century United States Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies Online
A directory to websites and resources on the literary and cultural history of the U.S. in the nineteenth century. Compiled by members of the American Studies Program of Washington State University.
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
The only organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to the advancement of study, research, and publications bearing on the history and culture of early America to approximately 1815.
