America to 1876: A Select Guide to Reference Resources

America to 1876: A Select Guide to Reference Resources
Thomas Byrne Memorial Library
Spring Hill College
Compiled by Bret Heim, M.M., MSLIS

|| General Reference || Article Citations || Primary Sources || Colonial || Constitutional Period ||
|| Revolutionary Period || 19^th Century || Civil War || Presidents || Constitution and Supreme Court ||
|| People as Subjects || Events as Subjects || Specific Subjects ||

General

*American National Biography. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998-. CT 213 .A68 1998 REFERENCE

*Boyer, Paul S. The Oxford Companion to United States History. New York : Oxford, 2001.
E 174 .O 94 2001 REFERENCE

*Dictionary of American History. New York : Scribners, 1978. E 174 .D52 1976 vols. 1-8 REFERENCE

Finding Article Citations

America History and Life [Library website--online index and abstracts]

Example: Wendt, Simon. "Southern Intellectuals and the Defense of Slavery: the Proslavery Thought
of George Fitzhugh and Henry Hughes." Southern Historian. 2002 23: 56-70.

Primary Sources

The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist speeches, articles, and letters during
the struggle over ratification. New York : Library of America, 1993. JK155 .D33 1993 STACKS

Giunta, Mary A. Editor. The Emerging Nation : a Documentary History of the Foreign Relations of the
United States under the Articles of Confederation, 1780-1789. Washington, DC : National Historical
Publications and Records Commission, 1996. AE 1.114/3:N 21/V.1-3 GOVDOCS

Smith, Paul Hubert, Editor. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. Washington : Library of Congress.
JK1033 .L47 Vols. 1-26 STACKS

Searching for a PERSON as AUTHOR in the library online catalog will retrieve works BY that person,
i.e. primary source materials

Example: Douglass, Frederick

Presidents

Graff, Henry F. Editor. The Presidents. 2^nd ed. New York : Scribners, 1996.
E 176.1 .P918 1996 REFERENCE

Hamilton, Neil A. Presidents : a Biographical Dictionary. New York : Facts on File, 2001.
E 176.1 .H215 REFERENCE

*Levy, Leonard W. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1994.
JK 511 .E53 1994 Vols. 1-4 REFERENCE

Time Periods

Colonial

Books About Early America : 2001 Titles. Compiled by David L. Ammerman. Williamsburg,
Va. : Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1989. E188 .A45 1989 REFERENCE

Revolution

**Blanco, Richard L. The American Revolution: 1775-1783: An Encyclopedia. New York :
Garland, 1993. E 208 .A433 1993 vols. 1-2 REFERENCE

Constitutional

*Rutland, Robert A. Editor. James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836 : an
Encyclopedia. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994. E342 .J36 1994 REFERENCE

Nineteenth Century / Westward Expansion

*Finkelman, Paul, Editor. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century.
New York : Scribner’s, 2001. E 169.1 .E626 2001 Vols. 1-5 RERFERENCE

Remini, Robert V. The Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson 1816-1841.
Arlington Heights, Ill. : AHM Publishing, 1979. E 338 .R45 1979 REFERENCE

Civil War

Heidler, David S. Editor. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social,
and Military History. E 468 .E53 2000 Vols. 1-4 REFERENCE

Current, Richard N. Editor. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York : Simon and Schuster,
1993. E 487 .E55 1993 Vols. 1-4 REFERENCE

Roller, David C. Encyclopedia of Southern History. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University
Press, 1979. F207.7 .E52 REFERENCE

Constitution and Supreme Court

*Levy, Leonard W. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. 2^nd ed. New York : Macmillan, 2000.
KF 4548 .E53 2000 vols. 1-5 REFERENCE

Freidman, Leon. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions.
New York : Chelsea House, 1997. KF 8744 .F75 1997 vol. 1 REFERENCE

Martin, Fenton S. The U.S. Supreme Court: A Bibliography. Washington, DC : Congressional Quarterly,
1990. KF 8741 .A1 M37 1990 REFERENCE

Subject Headings for the Online Catalog