History 208Z: Historical Research and Methods Seminar: Race and Gender in Early America, 1730-1850

Dorothy Rivera
Web Page created by Eric N. Lindquist, UM Libraries

 

The United States in 1783 (Library of Congress)
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This page contains links to electronic resources useful for researching race and gender in early America as well as information about other relevant library resources. For a complete list of electronic resources available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students, as well as information about the full range of library resources and services, consult the UM Libraries' home page.

Because of licensing agreements, off-campus access to bibliographic databases and electronic journals is restricted to UM faculty, staff, and students; consult Off-Campus Access to Library Resources for further information. Databases and electronic journals can be accessed remotely through Research Port.

Secondary Sources

• Reference Sources
• Books: UM Libraries
• Books: Other Libraries
• Scholarly Journal Articles

• Research Using Primary Sources
• Online Sources
• U.S. Government Information in the UM Libraries
• Historical Manuscripts in the UM Libraries
• Microform Collections in the UM Libraries
• Early American Newspapers on Microfilm

• Britannica Online
• Oxford English Dictionary

Reference Sources: General U.S. History

• Dictionary of American History
• The Reader's Companion to American History
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• American National Biography
• Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America
• The African American National Biography

• Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies
• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
• Books about Early America: 2001 Titles
• Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era
• Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History

• UM Libraries' Catalog
  The Libraries' catalog provides information about books, periodicals, and other holdings of all libraries in the University System of Maryland. Books owned by other libraries in the system can be ordered at the computer for delivery to College Park (or elsewhere); click on "Request" in the catalog record.

• WorldCat
  Combined catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Items not owned by University System of Maryland libraries can be ordered at the computer for borrowing through interlibrary loan; click on "find it."

• America: History and Life
  Information about articles, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history. To locate an item, click on the "find it" button.

• Historical Abstracts
  Information about articles, books, and dissertations on non-U.S. and non-Canadian history since 1450. To locate an item, click on the "find it" button.

Research Using Primary Sources
Guide created by UM curators.

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Online Sources

• English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
  Catalog of English-language imprints and imprints in all languages published in English-speaking countries, 1473 to 1800.

• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  The full text of many English-language imprints and imprints in all languages published in English-speaking countries, 1473 to 1700.

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  Full text in page images of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in England and elsewhere.

• Early American Imprints
  Full text in page images of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the British North American colonies and the early United States, 1630s to 1800.

• American Periodicals Series
  More than 1,000 American periodicals published between 1740 and the early twentieth century.

• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  More than 7 million digitized primary sources in more than 100 historical collections, including the following:

  • The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925
  • The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
  • First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
  • Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
  • The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
  • African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
    A collection of 351 titles.
  • From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
    A collection of 397 pamphlets.
  • Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860

• Archives of Maryland Online
  Complete texts of early Maryland records, including seventeenth and eighteenth-century court and legislative records.

• Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800

• Digital Schomburg: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
  A collection of 44 books.

• Google Books
  Vast collection of digitized books.

• North American Slave Narratives
  A collection of some 200 titles; part of Documenting the American South.

• Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
  The May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University contains more than 10,000 items, including pamphlets, sermons, broadsides, newsletters, and Anti-Slavery Fair and other ephemera. Several thousand pamphlets are included in this resource.

• Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.: Select Publications of the 1800s
  Digital collection of books and pamphlets from Millersville University and Dickinson College.

• Dred Scott Case Collection
  Proceedings of suit initiated by Dred Scott and his wife Harriet in the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The case was eventually considered by the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued its notorious judgment in 1857.

U.S. Government Information in the UM Libraries

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Historical Manuscripts in the UM Libraries

• ArchivesUM: Archival Collections at the University of Maryland Libraries

Microform Collections in the UM Libraries

The UM Libraries own many primary sources on microfilm and similar formats. Most of these collections can be found in the current periodicals room on the first floor of of McKeldin Library. The following is a list of microform collections relevant to early American history:

• American Culture Series (1493-1806).
• The American Revolution in Context.
• American Women's Diaries. Segment I: New England Women.
• American Women's Diaries. Segment II: Southern Women.
• Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library
• Carter Family Papers, 1659-1797 In the Sabine Hall Collection
• The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817-1880
• The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia
• History of Women
• Isabella Beecher Hooker Project
• Moravian Mission Records Among the North American Indians.
• Nineteenth Century American Literature and History
• Peale Family Papers.
• Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775. The Thomas Penn Papers, 1729-1832 at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
• Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Records.
• Shaker Collection, 1792-1937: Records of United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing
• Slavery: Source Material and Critical Literature
• Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Papers 1815-1902
• Travels in the Old South I, II, III
• United States. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Annual Reports, 1824-1949
• Utah and the Mormons
• Women Advising Women.

• If you have any questions about these or other library resources, contact Eric N. Lindquist, history librarian, University of Maryland Libraries, at ericl@umd.edu.