Selected Sources – WHS Library
Mrs. Coddington

INDEXES

• Abridged Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature – Ref  051 ABR
• American Heritage – chronological and subject index – Ref 973.05 AME
• CQ Researcher – Ref 051 CON
• SIRS Enduring Issues – Ref 050 END

REFERENCE BOOKS

• Annals of America – Ref 973 ANN
• Dictionary of American History – Ref 973.03 DIC
• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution – Ref 342.73 ENC
• Encyclopedia of American History – Ref 973.03 MOR
• Scholastic Encyclopedia of Presidents and their times – Ref 973 RUB

WHSL ONLINE CATALOG

Following are subject headings that can be searched to locate materials on the various topics:

Frontier and pioneer life
Impeachment
Inventions or Inventors
Indians of North America (browse the sub-headings)
United States—History—1861-1865, Civil War (browse the sub-headings, i.e., battles, biographies, campaigns, causes, etc.)
United States—History—1865-1898 (to find materials on Reconstruction)

To locate biographies on individuals, search the person as subject:

  lincoln, abraham
  johnson, andrew
  addams, jane
 

INTERNET RESOURCES
 

Civil War and Reconstruction

• WWW Virtual Library:  History.

Check the sections under Americas--United States (See Also: Chronological Periods - Civil War, Industrialization) (See Also:  Historical Topics – Slavery).
 
• Internet Public Library.

In the Reference area, view lists of web sites organized by broad topic area (for example, select:  Arts & Humanities—History--US: documents, maps, etc.).
 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Documenting the American South  (Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Douglass:  Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)    Search by speaker, or select a listing of speeches listed by chronology.  Included are speeches from Lincoln.

• Gettysburg, Battle of (with a photo collection available)

• Library of Congress (United States).   This site contains a wealth of sources including:
• documents from Congressional debates of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial.
• the Selected Civil War Photographs Collection which contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.
• The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900.  Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
• Words and Deeds in American History. Included are the papers of presidents, cabinet ministers, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military officers and diplomats, reformers and political activists, artists and writers, scientists and inventors, and other prominent Americans whose lives reflect our country's evolution (check through the chronological listing).
...and many more!

• Major Battles and Personalities of the Civil War

Includes extended information on various CW battles as well as biographical and military history of major players.

• Making of America – MOA (University of Michigan)

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
 
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency whose mission is to "preserve the national history of the United States by overseeing the management of all federal records."  The web site includes a comprehensive list of archival information maintained by various branches of the Federal government, as well as online exhibits, educational material, and information about programs and events sponsored by this agency.
 
• The Valley of the Shadow

The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of  thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.  Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families.
 
• The American Civil War Homepage.

The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The page opens a gateway to the Internet's multi-formatted resources about what is arguably the seminal event in American history. Not only was the War the occasion for the abolition of slavery, but by conflict's end the re-United States had emerged as a modern, industrialized power.

• United States Civil War Center.

The Louisiana State University Center’s mission is “To locate, index, and / or make available all appropriate private and public data regarding the Civil War [and] to promote the study of the Civil War from the perspectives of all professions, occupations, and academic disciplines.”  Scroll down the main page to Links and New Links (left-hand side).

Westward Expansion

• The Gold Rush (California)
• Women in the California Gold Rush
• Transcontinental Railroad of the Web

Indian Wars

• People involved
• Battles and campaigns
• Treaties, pacts and agreements
• Trail of Tears

Labor:  Robber Barons, Unions, Workers, Etc.

Haymarket Riot of 1866 (Chicago)

Information from the Chicago Public Library History Archives.

Haymarket Tragedy - Illinois Labor History Society

Includes additional links and articles for further reading.

Child Labor in America, 1908-1912

Photographs of Lewis W. Hine.  Also includes brief history of Hine and child labor in America.

American Labor History - an online study guide

The Horrors of Homestead - Public Broadcasting Corp.

The series produced by PBS, is titled "The Richest Man in the World:  Andrew Carnegie".

John D. Rockerfeller

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Immigration

From One Life to Another

This site has extended resources and articles concerning specifically Irish, Swedish, Italian and Jewish immigrants as well as additional information on causes and effects of immigration to America.  Excellent source!

Ellis Island

This site contains popular stereoscopic photographs from the early 20th century documenting immigration through the most famous point of entry, Ellis Island

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Women's Suffrage and Other Reform Movements

• Women and Social Movements in the US, 1830-1930
• National Women's History Project- links to other sites concerned with learning about womens' history.
• The Suffrage Movement
• Temperance and Prohibition
• Jane Addams Hull House Museum  (and other information besides!)  Scroll down the page for more related sites:  biography, works by and works about Hull House.

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