Bibliography of the history and culture of America from prehistory to present.
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Subject Areas: U.S. History
America: History & Life (AHL) is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. Coverage also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 100 major journals of American history and culture and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.
Subject keywords: History. Interdisciplinary Studies. Popular Culture. Multicultural Studies. American Studies. Women's Studies/Gender Studies. Anthropology. Literature/Folklore. Sociology. Genealogy. History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law.
Format: Index to Journal Articles Dates of Coverage: 1964 - Present Update Schedule: Quarterly Database Producer: EBSCO
Contains letters from the men and women of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
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Subject Areas: U.S. History, Political Science
American Indian Correspondence contains letters from the men and women of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
Their letters, intended to be reports from the field, are far more than dry discussions of mission business. Ranging in length from single fragments to reports of over twenty pages, they describe the Indian peoples and cultures, tribal factionalism, relations with the U.S. government, and the many problems and achievements of the work.
Format: Full Text Dates of Coverage: 1833-1893 Update Schedule: Completed Archive Database Distributor: Gale / Cengage
Full text primary and secondary sources that describe interactions between American Indians and Europeans.
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Subject: American history
A wide range of primary and secondary source material is included in American Indian Histories and Cultures, which presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans.
This collection describes the earliest contact between Native Americans and Europeans, and continues covering their interactions through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, concluding with the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century.
Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 16th century (1500's) to the end of the 20th century (1900's)
Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)
Online archive which includes the extensive FBI documentation on the evolution of the American Indian Movement as an organization of social protest.
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Subject Areas: History, Political Science
This collection includes the extensive FBI documentation on the evolution of the American Indian Movement (AIM) as an organization of social protest. In addition, there is documentation on the 1973 Wounded Knee Stand-off.
Informant reports and materials collected by the Extremist Intelligence Section of the FBI provide unparalleled insight into the motives, actions, and leadership of AIM and the development of Native American radicalism.
Includes 14,195 images from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Library.
Format: Full Text
Date range: 1968-1979
Database Producer: Gale / Cengage
Full text primary source material describing life in the American West.
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Subject: American History
The American West is a full text, online collection of original manuscripts, maps and ephemera.
This collection details life on the frontier, Native Americans, vigilantes, outlaws, and the growth of urban centers as well as the environmental impact of expansion.
Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: Early eighteenth century (early 1700's) to mid twentieth century (mid 1900's)
Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)
Database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life, sixteenth century to present.
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Subject Areas: U.S. History, Sociology & Anthropology
This database is formerly known as Bibliography of Native North Americans.
The Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America contains citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, and policy makers. Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples.
Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1500's to Present
Database Producer: EBSCO
This database consists of the original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies.
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Colonial America consists of three distinct collections, moving from early settlement in the colonies to the political protests leading to revolution, and continues through the American Revolution.
Module I: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries Covering the period from 1606 to 1822, Colonial America consists of the original correspondence between the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State and the English, later British, colonies in North America and the Caribbean. It is a vital resource for scholars of the early-modern Atlantic world. Topics covered include the expansion of English settlements, relationships with Native Americans, trade, war, piracy, religious matters, slavery, tobacco, sugar and other commodities.
Module II: Towards Revolution Focusing on the 1760s and 1770s, this module documents the social and political protest that led to the Declaration of Independence, and is also particularly rich in material relating to military affairs and Native Americans. Made up of letters, charters and commissions, instructions to officials, military documents, newspapers, printed pamphlets, public notices, maps and many other material types, this resource sheds light on all aspects of American life in the colonial period.
Module III: The American Revolution Complete CO5 Files from The National Archives, UK Introducing Module III of V which charts the upheavals of the 1770s and 1780s, including the throwing of British rule in the Thirteen Colonies. Contents within this module includes volumes of intercepted letters between colonists, the military correspondence of the British commanders in the field and material produced by the Ordnance Office and the office of the Secretary at War, along with copies of the Dunlap edition of the Declaration of Independence printed on the night of the 4th-5th July 1776.
Module IV: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies Traces the Colonies' political and legal evolution from 1636-1782. Includes details about Britain's war with Spain and expeditions in Canada against the French. Includes court journals, correspondences and revisions of acts.
Module V: Growth, Trade and Development (2019) The preponderant part of this module consists of correspondence with the Board of Trade. There are also details of land grants, financial accounts and documents focusing on American Indian relations, as well as George Vancouver’s despatches to London from his 1791 expedition to the Pacific Northwest. The module contains a number of shipping returns, accompanied by a video interview with Hannah Knox Tucker (PhD candidate, University of Virginia), who discusses these documents and their value for researchers in detail.
Format: Full Text Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)
More than 32,000 entries to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
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Subject Areas: History
European views of the Americas, 1493-1750 is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library. Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.
Online archive of Native Peoples from Canada and America, spanning the 17th - 20th centuries.
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Subjects: History, Sociology/Anthropology
This resource sources collections from across Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth into the twentieth century.
These collections include diverse manuscripts, book collections, newspapers from various tribe and Indian-related organizations, as well as materials such as Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages.
Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1600's - 1900's
Database Distributor: Gale / Cengage
North American Indian Drama contains plays of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.
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Subject: Drama.
North American Indian Drama contains 256 plays by 49 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, Mtis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theaters diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to dramamelding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.
Format: Full Text; Archival Resources
Coverage: 1920 to present
Update Schedule: Ongoing
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press
Contains biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories, 17th Century - present. Keywords: Native Americans
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Subject Areas: U.S. History, Sociology & Anthropology, People
North American Indian thought and culture contains biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Biographies include works on Quanah Parker, Dennis Banks, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Cochise, Jim Thorpe, Crowfoot, Peter Pitchlynn, Sacajawea, Geronimo, Hosteen Klah, Black Elk, Pocahontas, George Washington Grayson, Standing Buffalo, and many more.
Format: Archival Resources
Update Schedule: Updated semiannually
Dates of Coverage: 17th Century - Present
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press
Full text online archive that explores the Virginia Company, documenting the founding and economic development of Virginia.
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Subject: History, Economics
The Virginia Company Archives covers the founding and economic development of Virginia. This database documents developments in Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London (1606-1624), the interests of the Ferrar family, trade between Britain and America, the ethnic and gender composition of Virginia, and both tensions and relations among colonists and Native Americans.
Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1600-1775
Database Producer: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)
Consists of the letters received by and letters sent to the War Department, including correspondence from Indian superintendents and agents and others. keywords: newspapers, primary sources
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Subject Areas: U. S. History, Political Science
This collection consists of the letters received by and letters sent to the War Department, including correspondence from Indian superintendents and agents, factors of trading posts, Territorial and State governors, military commanders, Indians, missionaries, treaty and other commissioners, Treasury Department officials, and persons having commercial dealings with the War Department, and other public and private individuals.
In addition, attachments include vouchers, receipts, requisitions, abstracts and financial statements, certificates of deposit, depositions, contracts, newspapers, copies of speeches to Indians, proceedings of conferences with Indians in Washington, licenses of traders, passports for travel in the Indian country, appointments, and instructions to commissioners, superintendents, agents, and other officials.
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