History 408K: Senior Seminar: Early American History

Professor Bradbury
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This page contains links to electronic resources useful for researching the history of 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

• Online Sources
• Microform Collections
• Early American Newspapers on Microfilm

• Britannica Online
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Reference Sources: General U.S. History

• Dictionary of American History (rev. ed., 7 vols., 1978) with two supplementary volumes (1996). McKeldin Reference E174.D52.
• Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, eds., The Reader's Companion to American History (1991). McKeldin Reference E174.R43.

• John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography (24 vols., 1999). McKeldin Reference T213.A68.
• Dictionary of American Biography (10 vols., 1928-1936) with ten supplementary volumes covering period to 1980. McKeldin Reference E176.D562.

• Kenneth T. Jackson, ed., Atlas of American History (1978). McKeldin Reference G1201.S1J3 1978.

Reference Sources: Early American History

• Jacob Ernest Cooke, ed., Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (3 vols., 1993). McKeldin Reference E45.E53 1993.
• James Ciment, ed., Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History (5 vols., 2006). McKeldin Reference E162.C68 2006.
• Alan Gallay, ed., Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia (1996). McKeldin Reference E46.5.C65 1996.
• Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (1991). McKeldin Reference E208.B635 1991.

• David L. Ammerman and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Books about Early America: 2001 Titles (1989). McKeldin stacks E188.A494 1989.
• Raymond Irwin, ed., Books on Early American History and Culture, 1986-1990: An Annotated Bibliography (2001): McKeldin stacks E188.I789 2001.
• Raymond Irwin, ed., Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995: An Annotated Bibliography (2000): McKeldin stacks E188.I79 2000.

• Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole, eds., Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era (1984). McKeldin stacks E188.C72 1984.

• 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.

• 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 / Library of Congress
  More than 7 million digitized primary sources in more than 100 historical collections, including the following:

  • The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
  • An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, ca. 1600-2000
  • The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925
  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
  • The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
  • Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1764-1789
  • Early Virginia Religious Petitions, 1764-1802
  • First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
  • George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
  • Map Collections: 1544-1999
  • Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
  • The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress

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

• Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800

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).
• American Periodical Series: 18th Century.
• The American Revolution in Context.
• American Women's Diaries. Segment I: New England Women.
• American Women's Diaries. Segment II: Southern Women.
• Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795. The Papers of Josiah Bartlett. 1729-1795.
• The Charles Carroll Papers.
• Carter Family. Papers, 1659-1797, in the Sabine Hall Collection.
• Catholic Church. Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas. Microfilm Edition of the Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576-1803.
• The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia.
• Early American Imprints, 1639-1800. Evans Numbers 1-49197.
• Early British Periodicals.
• Early English Books, 1475-1640.
• Early English Books, 1641-1700.
• Early English Newspapers.
• East Florida, Naval Officer. Naval Office Shipping Lists for 1764-1769.
• The Eighteenth Century.
• English Literary Periodicals
• Great Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial Office, American and West Indies, Original Correspondence, Etc., 1606-1807: Massachusetts and New England, 1620-1783.
• Great Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial Office, American and West Indies, Original Correspondence, Etc., 1606-1807: New York 1664-1781.
• Great Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial Office, American and West Indies, Original Correspondence, Etc., 1606-1807: South Carolina, 1699-1784.
• Great Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial Office, American and West Indies, Original Correspondence, Etc., 1606-1807: Virginia. 1606-1781.
• Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. British Sessional Papers. House of Commons. (1731-1905).
• Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Reports from Committees of the House of Commons Which Have Been Printed by Order of the House but Not Inserted in the Journals. (1715-1801)
• Great Britain. Privy Council. Acts of the Privy Council of England, Colonial Series.
• Great Britain. Public Record Office. Records in the British Public Record Office Relating to South Carolina, 1663-1782.
• Hakluyt Society. Works.
• Isaac Hobhouse and Co. The Hobhouse Papers 1722-1755: Letters and Other Papers of Isaac Hobhouse and Co., Bristol Merchants.
• Lloyd. (Ship) Journals of the Ship Lloyd, N. Pocock, Captain, 1767-1772.
• Maryland (Colony). Naval Office. The Naval Office Shipping Lists for Maryland, 1689-1754, in the Public Record Office, London.
• Massachusetts (Colony). Naval Office. The Naval Office Shipping Lists for Massachusetts, 1696-1765.
• Mather, Cotton. The Mather Papers: Part I, The Papers of Cotton Mather.
• Moravian Mission Records Among the North American Indians.
• The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803.
• Peale Family Papers.
• Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775. The Thomas Penn Papers, 1729-1832 at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
• Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time.
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Records.
• South Carolina. Treasury. Records of the Public Treasurers of South Carolina, 1725-1776.
• Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767. Charles Townshend Papers at Dalkeith: Material Relating to America from the Charles Townshend Papers in the Possession of the Duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith House, Midlothian.
• Women Advising Women.

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