Hampshire College

Journal Articles for History 

• Alternative Press Index
• See also the Alternative Press Index Archive, 1969-1990.
• Alt-Press Watch Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press. 1995 to present.
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• ARTstor
• AP Mutimedia Archive
• ATLA Religion Index
• America : History and Life
• Ethnic New Watch
• Historical Statistics of the United States - Millennial Online Edition This thoroughly revised five-volume reference work, available in both print and electronic editions, reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
• New York Times 1851-2001
• Oral History Online Index to thousands of English-language oral history collections around the world. Link directly to the narratives of individuals from all walks of life, from the 1930s to the present. Most are in full-text, audio, or video.
• PAIS International with Archive Public Affairs Information Service contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. The PAIS Archive provides retrospective coverage of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin.
• Smithsonian Global Sound A streaming media archive that contains folk music from all over the world.

Web Sites for History

• Access to Archival Databases (AAD) "Most popular electronic records" from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Providing public access to a selection of historical and cultural documents and images of America in the collection of the Library of Congress.
• Council of State Archivists
• Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (Avalon Project at the Yale Law School) Offers full text of seminal historical documents in law, politics, and economics. Documents include
  • the U.S. Constitution
  • the Federalist Papers
  • the Emancipation Proclamation
  Search the site, or browse by cenutry.
• Five College Archives and Manuscript Collections Descriptions of letters, diaries, reports, photographs, account books, maps, and artifacts in the Five College archives. Includes Hampshire College manuscript collections.
• Harvard Open Collections Project Currently consists of the Women Working, 1800-1930 collection but Immigration to the United States 1789-1930 should soon be available.
• Historical Census Browser Tables from 1790 to 1960. Can select multiple data sets.
• Holt Labor Library for Labor Studies and Radical History Includes their library catalog, links to other labor sources, and a monthly feature that has full text, graphics, and links on topics related to class struggles in the advanced industrialized world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Making of America offers primary sources in American social and cultural history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Topics include education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. There are two similar projects available online:
  • Cornell's project includes 267 books and 22 journals published between 1840-1900.
  • the University of Michigan's project includes approximately 1600 books and 10 journals published between 1850-1877.
• Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project Life histories taken by the staff of the Folklore Project as part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) 1936-1940.
• NYPL Picture Collection Covers African Americans, American history, costumes, fashion, drawings, dragons, animals, and other subjects, dating from the 1700s through the 1st quarter of the twentieth century.
• Oral histories feature interviews with people who have participated in important poilitical, cultural, and economic social developments. There are some excellent interviews available online.
  
  • Rutgers Oral History Archives for World War II Interviews with people from New Jersey about World War II.
  • Oral History Civil Rights Documentation Project from the University of Southern Mississippi
  • Suffragists Oral History Project Interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the women's suffrage movement. From UC Berkeley.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Provided by the New York Public Library, this is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
• Statutes at Large 1789-1875 The first forty-three Congresses.