Print Resources

Microform Collections

• American Culture Series E22 (Microfilm 1st North)
• Library of American Culture Z3 (Microfilm 1st North)

Recommended Databases
Newspapers and Articles-accessible from the History Resource page

• America History and Life-a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present,
  
• JSTOR
• Humanities Full text
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Historical New York Times

Document Collections-accessible from the History Resource page

• Women and Social Movements in the United States-Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities. Thousands of pages of books, pamphlets, and related materials provide scholars with in-depth access to the published histories and records of women’s reform organizations throughout the United States across the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Books and Published Primary Sources

• Suggest search terms: "United States", history, "19th Century", "18th Century" "Antislavery movements" abolitionists, slavery, underground railroad'
• For Primary sources use: sources, "personal narratives" correspondence, diaries, "controversial literature"
• Polk Catalog
• BadgerCat

Recommended Websites

General Sites

• Avalon Project-Documents on Slavery
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
• The Online Insitute for Advanced Loyalist Studies-Black Loyalists
• African American Perspectives

Slave Narratives

• Documenting of the American South
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938
• African Slave Narratives

State Information

• Terrirotial Kansas Online 1854-1861
• The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
• The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
• Pennsylvania Abolition Society

Court and Government Documents

• St Louis Circut Court Historical Records Project-Freedom Suits
• Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves
• Slaves and the Courts 174-1860
• Race and Slavery Petition Project
• Amistad Trials
• Dred Scott Case

19th Century Newspaper and Periodicals

• Freedom's Journal: The First African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States
• Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874

Visual Archives

• The Atlantic Stave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

Abolitionist Archives

• Frederick Douglass Papers
• Samual J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
• Black Abolitionist Archive

Resistance

• Death or Liberty: Gabrial, Nat Turner and John Brown

Census Data

• Historical Census Browser

Library Departments and Services

Departments

• Archives/Area Research Center

Services

• Interlibrary Loan
• Universal Borrowing
• Research Advisory Program

For questions regarding the information on this site please email me at finkey@uwosh.edu
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