Research Guides -- History:
U.S. History
Library Catalogs / Primary Sources / Electronic
Databases / Internet Resources
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Library Catalogs
MATC Libraries Online Catalog provides access to books, magazines, Reserve material, audio-visual material (for example, videos), and web resources. Search by subject or keyword.
- Most U.S. History books will be located in the 900’s.
- Consult the Primary Source Research Guide for suggestions on locating primary source materials in the MATC Libraries
Other Library Catalogs can also be accessed from MATC libraries web page.
Search the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries catalog- MadCat which includes holdings at the Wisconsin State Historical Library & Archives. UW Borrowing Card: The MATC Libraries have an agreement with the UW-Madison Libraries to provide a borrowing card free of charge to MATC students. Stop in at any of the MATC Libraries to learn more and fill out the form.
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Academic Search Elite or Expanded
Academic ASAP or Academic Onefile
Use these academic databases to find articles from scholarly and historyl journals.
Full-text titles include History Today, History Review, American History, Journal
of American Ethnic History, Journal of Social History, and others.
JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals. Titles include American Historical Review, Journal
of American History, Journal of Southern History, Journal of Military History,
and others.
Proquest All Collections
Full-text of national newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune; Selected Wisconsin newspapers including the Wisconsin State Journal, Captial Times, and The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; plus other national, ethnic press, local, and international newspapers and other publications. Proquest Historical Newspapers (below) must be searched separately.
Proquest
Historical Newspapers
Chicago Defender (1921-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), New York Times(1851 – three years prior to present year )
Full page images of the Chicago Defender , Chicago Tribune, New York Times. Complete with illustrations, advertisements, obituaries, etc. as they appeared in the newspaper at that time.
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American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Primary source collections from the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
The Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
A collection of documents in history and law from ancient civilizations to the present.
The Founders' Constitution
An online anthology of documents from the 17th century through the 1830's related to constitutional history. From the University of Chicago and the Liberty Fund.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Digital collection of selected historical materials from Harvard University documenting voluntary immigration to the US
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Full text historical documents and links for ancient, medieval, and modern history.
Making of America (MOA)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Digital library of primary resources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction including sociology as well as education, psychology, American history, religion, science and technology.
NARA: National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/index.html
Prelinger Archives
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Over 1,200 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films made from 1927 through the present.
United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/census/
Describes the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state and country from 1790 to 1970
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Wisconsin History
Wisconsin History Portal and Turning Points in Wisconsin History
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wihistory.asp and http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/
Wisconsin State Historical Society
Wisconsin State Historical Library and Archives
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/
Dictionary of Wisconsin History
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/
Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=basic
Archive of previous issues, back to 1917.
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Citations
Chicago Style Citations
MATC Libraries History Research Guide
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
MATC Virtual Writing Center
http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/
The MATC Writing Center is available to all students at MATC who have writing needs. The Center hopes to provide support and assistance to students from all programs and departments in which teachers assign writing projects.
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