American history subject guide for undergraduates at
Arizona State University
This page offers some suggested resources for undergraduate American history students in conducting their research. In addition to general history, areas of emphasis include gender, race, and ethnicity.
Databases
General American History
America: History and Life. Contains abstracts of articles, book reviews, and dissertations on historical topics in U.S. and Canada, many with links to full text. The abstracts note which historical period, in years, each item covers. America’s Historical Newspapers. Covers the period between 1690 and 1922. Various other newspaper databases from around the country (e.g., Chicago, New York, Atlanta) are also available in electronic databases. History Cooperative. Offers full text of articles from a wide variety of historical journals, along with conference papers and the Booker T. Washington Papers Online. In the First Person. Indexes thousands of letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives. Copyrighted materials may be purchased by subscription. American Women’s History Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Contains full-text documents and images relevant to women’s studies and U.S. history. The scope of the original material contained in the database is 1775-2000. History of Minorities in America Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources. An index to journal articles, reports, newspapers, newsletters, and pamphlets. Black Thought and Culture. Full-text published nonfiction works of leading black Americans. Also includes biographical essays and annotated bibliographies. Ethnic Newswatch and ENW: A History. These databases cover U.S. ethnic group newspaper articles. Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980. Provides full text and full-page images of newspapers during the covered time frame. Books General American History Burg, D.F. (2007). The American Revolution. New York: Facts on File. Pessen, E. (1985). Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Carlisle, R.P. (2008). Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Facts on File. DuBois, Ellen Carol. The United States after 1865. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 2000. Calhoun, C.W., ed. (2007). The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Hillstrom, K. (2009). The Great Depression and the New Deal. Detroit: Omnigraphics. LaFeber, W. (2008). America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2008. Barkan, E.R., Diner, H., & Kraut, A.M., eds. (2008). From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era. New York: New York University Press. Levin, M.L. (2008). The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International. Western U.S. History Butler, A.M., & Lansing, M.J. (2008). The American West: A Concise History. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing. King, R.A. (2004). Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives From the Mexican War to the Present. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Mathews, S.K. (2008). American Indians in the Early West. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. Woodworth-Ney, L.E. (2008). Women in the American West. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. Ravage, J.W. (2008). Black Pioneers’ Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Zhu, L. (1997). A Chinaman’s Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier. Niwot, Colo: University Press of Colorado. Cannon, B.Q. (2009). Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West. Lawrence: University Pres of Kansas. American Women’s History Baker, J.H. (2009). Women and the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1920. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. Fout, J.C., ed. (1993). American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race Since the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Sneider, A.L. (2008). Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929. New York: Oxford University Press. African-American History Douglass, F. (2009). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. American Indian History Nies, J. (1996). Native American History: A Chronology of the Vast Achievements of a Culture and Their Links to World Events. New York: Ballantine Books. Journals General American History Journal of American History. (1964-). Bloomington, IN: Mississippi Valley Historical Association. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. (1970-). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Journal of Social History. (1967-). Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University. Journal of Urban History. (1974-). Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage Publications. Journal of Family History. (1976-). Minneapolis: National Council on Family Relations. Journal of the History of Ideas. (1940-). Philadelphia: Journal of the History of Ideas Inc. Journal of Modern History. (1929-). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Early American History Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History. (2000-). Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press. Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life. (2000-). Boston: History Department, Boston University. Southern U.S. History Journal of Southern History. (1935-). Baton Rouge, La.: Southern Historical Association. Western U.S. History Mining History Journal. (1995-). Denver: Mining History Association. Journal of Mormon History. (1974-). Ogden, Utah: Mormon Historical Association. Journal of Arizona History. (1965-). Tucson: Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society. Military History Journal of Military History. (1989-). Lexington, Va.: Virginia Military Institute and George C. Marshall Foundation for the American Military Institute. Racial/Ethnic History Journal of American Ethnic History. (1981-). New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Periodicals Consortium. African-American History Journal of African American History. (2002-). Formerly the Journal of Negro History. Silver Spring, Md.: Association for the Study of African American Life and History. American Indian History News From Indian Country: The Journal. (1988-). Hayward, Wis.: Indian Country Communications Inc. Native Americas: Akwe:kon’s Journal of Indigenous Issues. (1995-). Ithaca, N.Y.: Akwe:kon Press, American Indian Program, Cornell University. Chicano History E Poca: The National Concilio for Chicano Studies Journal. (1971-). Washington, D.C.: The Concilio. Asian-American History Journal of Asian American Studies. (1998-). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. American Women’s and Sexuality History Journal of the History of Sexuality. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2001-present. Journal of Women’s History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989-present. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Boulder, Colo.: Women Studies Program, University of Colorado, 1975-present.