Merner-Pfeiffer Library: Research Guide - History & Political Science

Databases

Use these print and online resources for finding articles and essays on your topic.
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• America: History and Life: Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 history journals published from 1954 to the present. Articles cover all aspects of United States and Canadian history.
• Annual Review of Political Science – full text from 1996 to the present.
• "Essay and General Literature Index" –  Indexes essays that appear in books of collected essays. We have the print version in our Reference Room R AI3.E752 from 1900 – 2001.
• Expanded Academic ASAP (TEL) – index and full text of journals in many subject areas -ft
• Evans Early American Imprints  Contains the full text of more than 36,000 documents published in the U.S. from 1639-1800, including books, advertisements, diaries, songs, plays, newspapers, bibliographies, dissertations, and much more.
• Historical Abstracts: Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 history journals published since 1954. Articles cover the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the U. S. and Canada (those are covered by America: History and Life)
• "Humanities Index"  – An index to journal articles in the humanities. We have the print version in our Periodicals Room from 1907 to 2000.  AI3.H85
• Humanities E-Book Project – full text of almost 1400 scholarly history books.
• JSTOR – Full text of 35 scholarly history journals. - ft
• "New York Times Index" –  Periodicals Room, AI21.N45. Print index to the New York Times newspaper from 1939 - 1999; Index available to the present via Internet on Infotrac Onefile.  The Periodicals room holds the newspaper on microfilm for the years 1939 to the present.
• Project Muse – full text of numerous scholarly journals in history, geography, African Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, Judaic Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, Native American Studies, and Women's Studies [includes recent issues.] -ft
• "Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature" –  An index to periodicals beginning in 1900. We have the print version from 1900 to the present in our Periodicals Room.  AI3.R48
• "Religion Index One" –  An index to articles in religion from 1949 to the present, located in the Periodicals Room.
• "Social Sciences Index" –  An index to journal articles in the social sciences. We have the print version in our Periodicals Room from 1907 to 2000.  AI3.S62
• Tennessee State Library and Archives - Includes links to online exhibits, Tennessee Landmark Documents, and 19^th Century Newspapers.
• TN Virtual Archive - Digitized Tennessee documents and photographic collections
• Volunteer Voices - Digitized Tennessee historical and cultural documents
• Wilson Select Plus – contains indexing and full text for selected journals from Wilson's "Humanities Index," "Social Sciences Index,"  and "Reader's Guide," among others. – ft.

 

Biography

• American National Biography R CT213.A68, 25 vol.
• Biography Resource Center and Marquis Who's Who
• "Biography Index"   We have the print version in our Periodicals Room from 1946 to 2000. Z5301.B5
• Dictionary of American Biography R E176.D56, 20 vol. and 10 supplements
• Dictionary of National Biography R DA28.D4, 31 vol. - British biography

Web Sites

General History and Geography

• American Geographical Society Collection
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• Color Landform Atlas of the U.S.
• Historical Text Archive
• History Channel
• History Guide
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• Interviews with US Veterans
• Map History: History of Cartography
• Additional Map Links
• NativeWeb
• NetSerf: the Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• Portals to the World
   

 

United States History

• African American Odyssey
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, 1861 - 1865
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• Early Encounters in North America  Memoirs, letters, diaries, and accounts of early encounters.
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• American Folklife Center: the Library of Congress
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
• American Slave Narratives
• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• Biography of America
• Century of Lawmaking: U.S. Congressional Documents 1774-1873
• Digital Library of Appalachia
• Documenting the American South
• Documents for the Study of American History
• Evans Early American Imprints.
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• First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
• Founders' Constitution
• Frederick Douglass Papers
• Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• GPO Monthly Catalog
• Historical United States Census Data Browser
• History and Politics Out Loud
• History Matters: the U.S. Survey Course on the Web
• Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
• Lincoln/Net
• Making of America: Texts of 19th C. Books and Journals
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
• National Archives and Records Administration
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• Our Documents: Texts of 100 milestone documents in American History
• Sixties Project
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
• United States Holocaust Museum
• Volunteer Voices: A collection of primary Tennessee History sources.

 

 

World History

• Ancient History Sourcebook
• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
• Edwin Moise Vietnam War Bibliography
• Encyclopedia of British History, 1700 - 1950
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
• History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources
• Latin American Network Information Center
• Nazi and East German Propaganda
• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
• University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
• Vietnam War directory of internet resources:  
• Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1970
• Western European Studies Section Web

 

Political Science  

• Congress.org
• Constitution of the United States of America
• Findlaw: For Legal Professionals
• Foreign Affairs Online
• GPO Monthly Catalog
• Governments on the WWW
• Political Science Resources on the Web
• Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Tennessee State Government
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Terrorism Project
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

Reference Sources

Use these sources for selecting and narrowing your topic.

United States History

• American Heritage New History of World War II R D743.5.P56
• American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History R E174.A535
• Dictionary of American History R E174.D52, 10 vol. also online in Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Dictionary of the First World War R D510.P66
• Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History R E185.E54, 5 vol.
• Encyclopedia of North American Indians R E76.2.E53
• Encyclopedia of Southern History R F207.7.E52
• Jewish American History and Culture R E184.J5J48
• Reader's Companion to American History R E174.R43
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture R F436.T525
• Bibliography of Southern Appalachia R Z1251.A7B53
• Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973-1996 R Z1337.B53
• Tennessee History: A Bibliography R Z1337.S55
• Civil War in Books R z1242.E57
• Handbook for Research in American History R Z1236.P78
• Harvard Guide to American History R 1236.F77, 2 vol.
• Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: A Bibliography R Z1337.B53

World History

• Africana R DT14.A37435
• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan R DS805.C36
• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia R DK14.C35
• Columbia Companion to British History R DA34.H6497
• Companion to British History R DA34.A76
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas R CD5.D52
• Encyclopedia of Asian History R DS31.E53, 4 vol.
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages R D114.E53, 2 vol.
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East R Ds43.E53, 4 vol.
• Encyclopedia of the Third Reich R DD256.5.G76313, 2 vol.
• Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War R DS557.7.E53
• Holocaust Encyclopedia R D804.25.H66
• Oxford Companion to Australian History R DU110.O938
• Oxford History of the Classical World R DE59.O94
• Timetables of History R D11.G78

Political Science

• Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues R JC 571.L2747
• Guide to American Law R KF154.G85
• Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court R KF8742.W567
• How Government Works R JK271.H74
• Political Parties and Elections in the U.S. R JK2261.P633
• U.S. Government Manual R JK421.A3
• West's Tennessee Code, Compact Edition R KFT30 1996 .A32