HISTORY 498
American Political Leadership
Selected Resources
PRINT SOURCES
Byrne, Pamela R. People and politics in North America : summaries of biographical articles in history journals, Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1988.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E176 .P39 1988
Gross, Ernie. The American years : a chronology of United States history, New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1999.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E174.5 .G753 1999
Harvard Guide to American History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974.
E 156 .F77x HAYDEN RESV
An indispensable guide for students in this field. Vol. 1 includes sections on research methods and materials, bibliographies, biographies and personal records, and histories of special subjects. There are essays on history as a literary art, writing for publication and book reviewing. Vol. 2 is arranged chronologically.
O'Brien, Steven G. American political leaders : from colonial times to the present. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1991.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E176 .O27 1991
Parish, Peter J., ed. Reader's guide to American history, London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E178 .R43x 1997
ONLINE INDEXES AND RESOURCES
America: History and Life. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1954-.
This is the essential abstract index for literature on American history. It contains abstracts from American and foreign journals on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history from the prehistoric period to the present.
ArchivesUSA (1950s+)
Access to special collection details of more than 4,400 repositories includes records with complete detailed indexes for approximately 100,000 individual collections. Includes access through NUCMC and NIDS subject headings(see NIDS and NUCMC listings below). Archives USA is also the most up to date source for address information on specific archival and manuscript repositories.
HarpWeek
The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I (1857-1871) (1857-1871)
Indexes full-text of Harper's Weekly, probably the only consistent, comprehensive, weekly chronological record of world-wide events of the late 19th century. Covers front-line Civil War reports, the re-election of Lincoln, & Reconstruction.
Historical Index to the New York Times (1863-1905, 1913-9/1922)
The Historical Index to The New York Times is an electronic index to articles published in The New York Times.
JSTOR
Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics,
Periodicals Contents Index (1770-1990/91)
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
Yahoo - U. S. History
The first place to start for a search of Internet sites for U. S. History. Particularly useful for tracking down sites with primary sources. Its hierarchical arrangement is as close to a library as one gets on the web
Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
Political Science/History Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
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