HST 112 Historical Research Resources Jenny Presnell email:presnejl@muohio.edu http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~presnejl/112.html

Finding Books

SHERLOCK
Ohio LINK
Worldcat

Finding Journal and Newspaper Articles

• Secondary Source Periodical Indexes

America: History and Life
(MiamiLink/Indexes and Databases/History)

Link to other indexes (MiamiLink/Indexes and Databases/History)
http://www.lib.MUOhio.Edu/research/indexes/subjects/History/

• Primary Source Periodical Indexes

Readers Guide to Periodical Literature
King Index Shelves

New York Times Index
AI21 .N44

See also Historical Indexes (MiamiLink/Indexes and Databases/General/ Historical Catalogues and Indexes)
http://www.lib.MUOhio.Edu/research/indexes/subjects/Historical/

Reference Materials

• Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of American History. Richard B. Morris (ed.). 7th edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
King Ref E 174.5 .E52 1996

Encyclopedia of American Social History. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.
King Ref HN 57 .E58 1993

• Biography

Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Scribner, 1927-1981.
King Ref E 176 .D562x

American national biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
King Ref CT213 .A68 1999

• Statisitics

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.
Washington D.C.: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1975.
Statistics based on the U.S. Census.
King Ref HA 202 .B87 1975

Statistical Abstract of the United States. U.S. Department of Commerce & the Bureau of the Census. Washington D.C.: GPO,
Docs T 37.10: 882 and C 14.16 and C 18.14 and C 3.134
King Ref and Circ HA 202 .A4x

United States Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

For a more detailed list of historical resources see:
History Resources at Miami University Libraries
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~presnejl/hstresearch/hstrs.main.html