ARIZONA HISTORY
A Select Bibliography
His 344
Online Indexes and Guides
America: History and Life (1954+) Indexes and Abstracts over 2,400 articles, bibliographic citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the USA and Canada from prehistoric to the present time.
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.
Arizona Archives Online An online description to archival materials. Includes finding aids from the various special collections of Arizona State University, University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University
Arizona and Southwestern Index (mid 1800s+) Indexes the Arizona, Chicano, Visual Literacy, Univ. Archives, Labriola Center, Child Drama, and Special collections. Covers ephemeral material, photos, biographies, oral histories, manuscripts, etc. Includes items in Arizona Historical Foundation & Hayden Library
Arizona Cultural Inventory Project The CIP includes more than 600 repositories and societies. It includes basic directory information, including addresses, phone numbers, emails, and website. The CIP also includes descriptions of each repository’s mission and collections; allows searchs for a specific repository or society by name; and allows browsing for repositories that collect certain subjects or in a specific location..
Arizona History and Archives Division The Arizona History and Archives Division identifies, collects, preserves and provides access to the historical manuscripts, government records, books and photographs of Arizona and its peoples
ASU Department of Archives & Manuscripts The web page for the Arizona Collection, ASU Archives and Chicano Research Collections(among others). This site contains much useful information about ASU and Arizona. The Department of Archives and Manuscripts office and the Arizona Collection, University Archives, and the Chicano Research Collection are located on level 4 of the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library
Bibliography of Native North Americans (1500+) Covers the history, life and culture of native North Americans. Indexes works from the 16th century to the present, including monographs, essays, journal articles, government documents, historical and ethnographic books, and dissertations.
Colorado Plateau: Canyons, cultures and environmental change "This website provides an introduction to the environmental history of the Colorado Plateau. It summarizes a vast body of research from multiple disciplines"
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I-II (1857-1877) 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.
Hayden Arizona Pioneer Biographies (1800s) Selected Pioneer Biographies written or compiled by Senator Carl Hayden. Includes data for names listed for the current geographic area of Arizona in the 1860, 1864 & 1870 U.S. Censuses for the Arizona/New Mexico & Arizona territories.
The New York Times 1851-1999 ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times 1851-1999 is a full-text electronic database to articles published in The New York Times from 1851-1999.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile (Poole's Plus: The Digital Index of the 19th Century) (1787-1906) Merges every relevant index to 19th- century newspapers, periodicals, books and government documents into a single, searchable site. Provides unprecedented access to the printed output of this extraordinary period.
PCI Full Text (1770-1995) 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.
Shema Arizona Oral histories conducted by the Arizona Jewish Historical Society. Includes the transcripts, recordings, and photographs
.WestWeb: Making It Their Own This section of WestWeb provides information about Women in the West. Under Texts you will find examples of primary texts, such as women's diaries and literary works, or secondary texts, such as critical essays or historical studies. Under Resources, you will find biographies of Western women as well as other resources...
Yahoo/U. S. History Yahoo is my search engine of choice when I begin an Internet Search. Its History sections are excellent. Because of its subject and hierarchical structure, it is the closest to a Library of the Internet.
If you have questions concerning these sources, please contact Edward Oetting at: edding@asu.edu
Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
History/Political Science Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
(480) 965 - 4579
edding@asu.edu
