Immigrant in American History
FIND BOOKS
URSUS, available on Mariner, is the University of Maine System’s shared online catalog.
FIND ARTICLES
America: History and Life [Mariner] Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present.
Academic Search Premier [Mariner] Full-text articles and index to scholarly and popular periodicals.
JSTOR [Mariner] Digital archive of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, general science and social
sciences. Historical collection covering complete run of each journal from its inception to generally
2-5 years ago.
Project Muse [Mariner] Complete articles from scholarly journals in humanities, arts, social sciences and
sciences.
New York Times Historical [Mariner] America’s newspaper of record. Exact reproduction of entire issues of The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 up to the last two to three years. For current coverage, use LexisNexis Academic, ProQuest Newspapers, or the New York Times link.
New York Times [Mariner] Index to and full-text coverage from 1999 to the present.
LexisNexis Academic [Mariner] Complete articles and indexing to many US and international newspapers.
ProQuest Newspapers [Mariner] Like LexisNexis Academic: full-text articles and indexing to US and international newspapers.
New York Times Index 1952-2002 [Index Tables] NYT is available full-text online 1851+.
New York Times Article Archive [Mariner] Indexing for The New York Times from 1851 to the present.
New York Times Obituaries 1858-1968 [Index tables].
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature 1932-59; 1970-73; 1978+ [Index tables] Popular magazines. July 1939-June 1941 and April 1953-February 1955 unavailable at UMA.
Cumulative Index to Periodical Literature 1959-78 [Index tables] Fills gaps in Readers' Guide for those years.
Humanities Index 1974-2003 [Index tables] Covers history.
Social Sciences Index 1974-2003 [Index tables].
Social Sciences and Humanities Index 1965-74 [Index tables] Earlier version of what became two separate indexes, Humanities Index and Social Sciences Index.
International Index to Periodicals 1907-1965 [Index tables] Predecessor to Social Sciences and Humanities Index.
Journal of American History 1952+ [Periodicals] “Recent Scholarship" section in each issue covers 400-500 journal articles.
Historical Abstracts [Mariner] Index to articles, books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the US and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
Labor History 1990+ [Periodicals] Annual bibliography.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS & DICTIONARIES
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups [Ref E 184 A1 H35] Long articles on American ethnic groups covering origins, migration and settlement, history in America, religion, politics and other topics.
We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity [Ref G 1201 .E1 A4] Atlas devoted to ethnic settlement in the United States. Maps show the distribution of ethnic groups in America, while the text discusses the immigration, history in the United States and migrations of ethnic populations. State and county statistics for 1980.
Atlas of American Migration [Ref G 1201 .E27 F5] History of emigration and immigration in the US.
Ethnic Cultures of America [Ref E 184 .A1 F57] Articles on ethnic groups.
Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor [Ref HD 8066 .H57] Unions, union leaders, labor-related events,
statutes and court cases and labor terminology.
Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History [Ref HQ 1410 .R43] Articles on the experience of women in America.
Handbook of American Women’s History [Ref HQ 1410 .H36] Events, organizations, concepts and people.
Hispanic America [Ref E 184 S75 R44] Broad coverage of Hispanic history and culture.
Japanese American History [Ref E 184 J3 J3355] Narrative historical overview, chronology of Japanese American history and dictionary entries.
Encyclopedia of American Social History [Ref HN 57 E58] History from the “bottom up.”
Encyclopedia of Social History [Ref D 28 .53] Major focus is on those remote from the centers of power and their role in history.
Encyclopedia of the American Left [Ref HX 86 .E58] Biographies, mass movements, organizations and parties, racial and ethnic groups, newspapers and magazines, terms, literature and the arts, etc.
Dictionary of American History [Ref E 174 D52] Articles on all aspects of American history except biography.
Oxford Companion to American History [Ref E 174 J6] Handy one-volume source of brief articles on various topics and people.
Encyclopedia of American History [Ref E 174.5 M847] Political and military chronology as well as topical one, biographies and historical information on the federal government.
Webster's Guide to American History [Ref E 174.5 W4] Chronological, geographical and biographical survey.
Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates [Ref E 174.5 C3] Chronology of facts, dates and events.
Oxford Reference Online [Mariner] Reference sources.
Canadian Encyclopedia [Ref AG 5 .C27] General encyclopedia.
BIOGRAPHY
American Reformers [Ref CT 215.A67] Brief biographical sketches of principal reformers in America from the 17th century to the present.
Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) [Ref E 176 D56] Biographical studies of prominent people from all periods of U.S. history. No living person is included. To 1980.
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives [Ref CT 213.S37] Biographies of those who made “significant contributions” to U.S. history. Continues DAB from 1981.
Notable American Women, 1607-1950 [Ref CT 3260 N57] Biographies of over 1300 women from all walks of life.
Who Was Who in America, 1607-1981 [Ref E 663W54] Short biographies of deceased individuals considered to have made an important contribution to the U.S. Includes non-U.S. people as well as U.S. citizens.
RESEARCH GUIDES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES
American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature [Ref D 20 A45] Newest and best of general bibliographies listed here; start your research here! Books and articles listed in every field of historical scholarship as well as overviews on changes in historical writing.
History: Illustrated Search Strategy and Sources [Ref D 16 .F87] How to do a research paper and use the library for doing research.
Historian's Handbook [Ref Z 6201 P65] Guide to reference sources in history.
United States History [Ref Z 1236 .B57] Guide to reference tools in U.S. history.
Harvard Guide to American History [Ref Z 1236 H27] Bibliography of books and articles in American history. Chronological and topical arrangement.
Guide to the Study of the United States of America [Ref Z 1215 U53] Compilation of works on various aspects of American life and thought including many branches of history as well as politics, education, religion, literature and other fields.
A Representative Bibliography of American Labor History [Ref Z 7164 L1 N55] Materials relevant to the history of the U.S. working class.
Maine Resources: Print and Non-Print [Ref Z 1291 T37] Subject arrangement.
Maine: a Bibliography of Its History [Ref Z 1291 .C65] Arranged by geographic unit.
New England: A Bibliography of Its History [Ref Z 1251 .E1 N452] Arranged by subject.
A Short Guide to Writing About History [Ref/Reserve D 13 .M29 2002]
STATISTICS
Historical Statistics of the United States [Mariner & Ref HA 202 .H57] Quantitative historical data from the
earliest times to the present. Allows one to graph and combine data from different tables into custom
tables, and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications.
Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 [Ref HA 202 .B7]
Comparative historical statistics.
Statistical Abstract of the United States 1981-84, 1986-88, 1990+ [Ref HA 202 A3] Statistical coverage on enormous range of subjects, including immigrants and immigration.
International Historical Statistics-The Americas, 1750-1993 [Ref HA 175 .M55] Wide range of historical statistical data.
WEB SOURCES
See Katz Library Internet Resources for a list of Web directories @ http://www.uma.edu/libraries.html.
History Highway 2000 [Ref D 16.255 .C65 H58] Guide to Internet resources in history.
American Memory [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/] Contains over one million items from the Library of Congress’ historical collections including more than 56,000 photos of life during the Great Depression.
American Studies Web [http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/] Features an annotated gateway to hundreds of links dealing with American history and culture.
Documents for the Study of American History [http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html] Documents in US history.