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The following is a selection of material available in various formats either in or through the York University Library System. For assistance in locating other materials, ask a reference librarian at a Reference Desk or send your inquiry to us through e-mail . The librarian responsible for collecting in this area is Brent Roe. Guides to the Literature
Handbook for Research in American History:
A Guide to Bibliographies and Other Reference Works. Francis
Prucha. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Harvard Guide to African-American History.
Editor-in-chief: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Cambridge, MA : Harvard
University Press, 2001. Harvard
Guide to American History.
Cambridge,
MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974.
Reader's Guide to American
History.
Edited by Peter J. Parish. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Reference Sources in History: An Introductory
Guide. Ronald Fritze, Brian Coutts, Louis Vyhnanek. Santa
Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 1990. Encyclopedias & DictionariesAmerican Heritage Encyclopedia of American History.
Edited by
John Mack Faragher. New York: H. Holt, 1998.
Dictionary of American History:
From 1763 to the Present.
Peter
Thompson. New York Facts on File, 2000.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History.
Edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West. ew York : Macmillan Library
Reference, c1996. Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage.
Edited
by Susan Altman. New York : Facts on File, 2000. Emphasises
African-American political and intellectual history.
Provides information on individuals, peoples, places, events, Encyclopedia of American History.
Edited
by Richard B. Morris and J.B. Morris. 7th ed. New York: Harper & Row,
1996. Encyclopedia of American Political History. Edited by Paul
Finkelman and Peter Wallenstein. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2001. Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America.
Edited by John Faragher. New York: Facts on File, 1990. Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries
of Indian-White Relationships. J. Norman Heard. Metuchen,
N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987- .5 vols. Oxford Companion to American History.
Thomas
H. Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. Articles summarize the "lives, events and places
significant in the founding of the nation." The longer articles
sometimes conclude with bibliographies. ChronologiesAfrican American
Almanac: Day-by-day Black History. Leon T.
Ross and Kenneth A. Mimms. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1997. Almanac of American History.
Edited
by Arthur M. Schlesinger. New York: Putnum, 1983. Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates.
Gordon Carruth. 8th ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Famous First Facts:
A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American
History. Joseph Nathan Kane,
Steven Anzovin &
Janet Podell. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1997. The
Timetables of African-American History: A Chronology of the Most Important
People and Events in African-American History. Sharon Harley. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
Annual Review & Current Events
The Annual Register. London: Longman, 1964-. Facts
on File. New York: Facts on File, 1940-.
Biographical InformationAmerican National Biography. Edited by John A. Garraty, Mark C. Carnes. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography. Includes bibliographical references and index. CT 213 A68 1999 (Scott Reference, Frost Reference) The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography.
Edited by John S.
Bowman. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
1995. Dictionary of American Biography.
New
York: Scribner, 1946-58. 11 vols. and supplement. Encyclopedia of American Biography.
John Garraty. New York: Harper & Row, 1996. Research Guide to American Historical Biography.
Edited by Robert Muccigrosso. Washington, DC: Beacham Pub.,
1988-1991.
American Statistics Index.
Washington:
Congressional Information Service, 1973- Colonial America to 1763.
Thomas L. Purvis. New
York: Facts on File, 1999. Revolutionary America, 1763-1800. Thomas L.
Purvis. New York: Facts on File, 1995. Statistical
Abstract of the United States. Washington: Government Printing
Office. Statistical History of the United States, from
Colonial Times to the Present. United States Bureau of the Census. New York:
Basic Books, 1976. Victorian America, 1876 to 1913.
Crandall Shifflett. New York: Facts on File, 1996.
AtlasesAmerican Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States
History. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1966. Considers United States history
with a focus on the role of ethnicity and religion, economics, and natural resources in
American society. Information is further reinforced by relevant maps. Atlas of American History. Robert
Ferrell. New York: Facts on File, 1993. Atlas of American History. Rand McNally and
Company. Chicago: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Atlas of
Westward Expansion. Alan
Wexler. New
York: Facts On File, 1995. Dent Atlas of American History. Martin Gilbert.
London : J.M. Dent, 1993. Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas.
Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty with Patrick Williams. New York: H. Holt, 1996. Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential
Elections. Yanek Mieczkowski. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Provides details of U.S. presidential elections with regards
to state boundaries in the United States geographical
landscapes.
America and the World 1776-1998: A
Handbook of United States Diplomatic History.
Jerry K. Sweeney, Margaret B. Denning, Stephen J. Valone. Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2000. American Travel Writers, 1776-1864.
Edited by James J. Schramer and Donald Ross. Detroit, MI : Gale Research,
1997. Annual Bulletin of Historical
Literature. London:
Historical Association, 1911-. Bibliographies in American History, 1942-1978:
A Guide to Materials for Research. Henry Putney Beers.
Woodbridge, CT.: Research Publications, 1982, 2 vols. Bibliographies in History: An Index to Bibliographies
in History Journals and Dissertations Covering the U.S. and Canada.
Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, 1989. 2 vols. Bibliographies of New England
History. Further additions, to 1994. Edited by Roger Parks. Hanover: University Press of New England,
1995. Black/White
Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography. Leslie V.
Tischauser. Pasadena, CA : Salem Press, 1998. The Civil War in
Books: An Analytical Bibliography.
David J. Eicher. Urbana: University Of Illinois Press, 1997. Handbook for
Research in American History : A Guide to Bibliographies and Other
Reference Works. Francis Paul Prucha. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, c1994. Reader's Guide to American History.
Edited by Peter J. Parish. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Recently Published Articles. Washington:
American Historical Association, 1976-1990. 15 vols. Reconstruction in the United States :
An Annotated Bibliography. David A. Lincove. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: A
Bibliography.
Compiled by Ronald M. Gephart. Washington: Library of
Congress, 1984. 2 vols. A Scholar's Guide to Geographical
Writing on the American and Canadian Past.
Michael P. Conzen, Thomas A. Rumney, Graeme Wynn. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1993. A Student's Guide to History. Jules R.
Benjamin. Boston : Bedford Books ; New York : St. Martin's, 2001. United States History: A Bibliography of the
New Writings on American History. Louise A. Merriam and James W. Oberly. New York:
Manchester UP, 1995. United States
History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources. Ron Blazek and Anna H. Perrault. Englewood, Colo : Libraries Unlimited,
1994. U.S. Cultural History: A Guide to Information
Sources. Philip Mitterling. Detroit: Gale, 1980. The U.S.
Labor Movement: References and Resources. Robert N. Stern, Daniel B. Cornfield, with Theresa I.
Liska and Dee Ann Warmath. London : Prentice Hall International, 1996.
Women in American History: A Bibliography.
Cynthia
E. Harrison. Santa Barbara, Calif: CLIO Press, 1979-. Women in U.S. History : A Resource
Guide.
Lyda Mary Hardy. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2000. Women's
Movement: References and Resources. Writings in American History.
Writings in Indian
History, 1985-1990.
Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper.
London:
S. Palmer, 1868-1925. Index to the Times.
London: Times
Pub. Co. The New York Times Index to the Published News.
New York, vols. 1913-. Historical Indexes & Abstracts
C.R.I.S.: The Combined Retrospective Index
Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974. Washington: Carrollton
Press, 1977-.
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