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19th Century Masterfile (Formerly Poole's Plus)
  • Index to popular American and British journals, 1802-1906
  • Browsable by journal; searchable by keyword, author
  • Cites periodical, date and author
America: History and Life (UMich Only)
  • Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs
  • Indexes and abstracts books, book reviews, dissertations, and articles from approximately 2100 journals
  • Sample search: Pakistan and "foreign policy" and Bangladesh
  • One of the best indexes for researching the American Empire
American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Selected documents, maps, photographs and motion pictures of American history
  • Subjects range from the Continental Congress to railroad maps to dance manuals
  • Searchable by title, subject, or library division
  • Entries often include illustrations, background information, and links to further resources
AP Images (UMich Only)
  • Over 500,000 current and historical photographs from the Associated Press
  • Searchable by subject, place, and date
  • Also known as AP Multimedia Archive and AccuNet/Associated Press Photo Archive
Archival Research Catalog (National Archives)
  • Bibliographic data base with many digitized images of federal documents
  • Includes declassified Presidential material
  • Rich source for President John F. Kennedy with speeches and foreign relations memoes
  • Numerous search capabilities, including limitation to full text materials available on the web
  • Preliminary Inventories
Archives Portal (UNESCO)
  • Directory of national, state, and local archives with web links
  • Also includes subject lists, such as parliamentary, diplomatic or family archives
  • No annotations; project under development as of 2000
Archives USA (UMich Only)
  • Index to holdings of 4400 archives and 100,000 archival collections in the United States
  • Searchable and browsable by keyword, collection name, city and state
  • Information includes a description of the collection, hours, and a link to the repository's web site
  • Includes National Archives as well as numerous other public and private archives
Avalon Project (Yale)
  • Full text of historic legal and political documents for the U.S., Western Europe, and the Middle East
  • Mixture includes Laws of William the Conquerer, Paris peace treaties, European Parliament, and World War II documents
  • Includes Code of Hammurabi, Hamas, Israeli Declaration of Independence
Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy (USIA)
  • Declarations, court cases, literature, and speeches illustrating democratic ideals
  • Northwest Ordinance, Gettysburg Address, Seneca Falls Declaration
  • Martin Luther King, censure of Joe McCarthy
Cases and Materials on American Federalism (Amber/Purdue)
  • Extensive course materials provide primary documents on political theory and American history with sections on the founding fathers, three branches of government and civil rights issues
  • Texts include Magna Carta, Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu
  • Various drafts of the Constitution, excerpts from the Federalist, numerous court cases
  • Section on the Electoral College includes list of faithless electors, presidents who won by plurality rather than majority, and four cases where winners of the popular vote lost the election
 
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