HIST 480 - Seminar: American West  

SOURCE : the catalog of library holdings which also links to Prospector

Suggested search terms for finding primary resources in the library catalog

Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Diaries
• Correspondence
• Description and Travel
• Personal Narratives
• Sources

Terms that are not LC Subject Headings but may appear in a title

• Memoirs
• Journal

Library Subscriptions

Lexis-Nexis Academic - Searchable database of Federal and State Laws and Court Cases. Full text of hundreds of laws reviews. Also contains full-text database of U.S. and foreign newspapers and wire services.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional - Index and full text database on publications of the U.S. Congress (Committee Reports, Hearings, etc.) Indexing goes back to 1970, full-text to about 1988. If your topic is prior to that, use the Congressional Serial Set database.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set - indexing and full text to the U.S. Congressional Serial, 1790 to 1970. Includes committee reports on legislation, reports to congress by executive branch departments, agencies, commissions, bureaus, etc. Also contains a lot of extraneous material.

Public Access

Library of Congress Digital Collections - links to digitized maps, historical newspapers, manuscript collections, congressional publications, etc.

Google Books - full text of books, journals, and other material that can be digized without copyright restrictions.  

Internet Archive - full text of books, journals, and other material that can be digized without copyright restrictions.

JSTORE - Backfiles of a number of scholarly journals.

 America: History and Life (EBSCOhost) 
Covers Canadian and U.S. history indexing from 1964-present.

Readers' Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb) 1890-1982
Contains indexing of popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Note that the content of this product is historical rather than current.

University of Virginia's Historical Census Data Browser http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/

   User can create maps and do some statistical manipulations with 179- to 1960 U.S. Census Data.

U.S. Census Bureau

   Detailed Census of Population and Housing Reports 1790 to 2000. http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm

   Statistical Abstracts of the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html#Top

Library of Congress Digital Collections http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/

Denver Public Library Historical Photographs Collection http://history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html