Turning Point in US History- Jami Forrester
Newspaper and Magazine Sources
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New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore important historical events, cultural shifts, and societal changes through the original pages of The New York Times.
Find: digitized full pages and articles from every issue published between 1851 and 2015—including headlines, photos, advertisements, obituaries, comics, and political cartoons.
Great for: completing projects on U.S. history, journalism, and media studies, and conducting archival research. -
New York TimesMachine This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore historical issues of The New York Times in their original print format.
Find: full page images from 1851–2002, including headlines, photos, advertisements, and complete layouts.
Great for: conducting archival research, analyzing primary sources, and completing projects in U.S. history, journalism, or cultural analysis. -
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Use this to: read reliable, full-text news and transcripts from around the world.
Find: articles from major news sources such as The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Washington Post, as well as broadcast news transcripts, and wire updates.
Great for: researching any current events topic, staying informed on regional and national news, comparing media coverage, and analyzing journalistic reporting styles. -
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore American history and culture through digitized periodicals from the late 17th to early 20th centuries.
Find: full-page digitized images of original periodicals published between 1684 and 1912, providing first-hand accounts of historical events on topics such as social life, industry, politics, religion, literature, science, agriculture, women's issues, and more.
Great for: analyzing primary sources for U.S. history papers, researching American culture and society through original publications, exploring specific historical events, or studying various aspects of American life through original advertisements, essays, and news.
Research Databases which include Academic Journals
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African American Heritage This link opens in a new window
Use this to: research African American family history and genealogy.
Find: census records, vital records such as marriage records and birth/death certificates, slave and freedman records, church documents, and published family histories and narratives.
Great for: conducting African American genealogical research, tracing family lineage, finding primary source documents for family history projects, or exploring historical records for African American studies. -
U.S. History (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore key events, eras, and figures in U.S. history with curated background and primary source materials.
Find: articles, essays, speeches, letters, historical images, videos, and statistics—covering U.S. history from early colonization to today, all presented with overviews to give you background information.
Great for: researching history paper topics, analyzing primary sources for civics assignments, or understanding different perspectives on historical events. -
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Use this to: search for scholarly articles, news, and multimedia across a wide range of academic disciplines.
Find: peer-reviewed and scholarly journal articles.
Great for: writing research papers across many subjects, developing argumentative essays, or gathering evidence for speeches and presentations. -
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore American history and culture through digitized periodicals from the late 17th to early 20th centuries.
Find: full-page digitized images of original periodicals published between 1684 and 1912, providing first-hand accounts of historical events on topics such as social life, industry, politics, religion, literature, science, agriculture, women's issues, and more.
Great for: analyzing primary sources for U.S. history papers, researching American culture and society through original publications, exploring specific historical events, or studying various aspects of American life through original advertisements, essays, and news.
Books
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Abolition
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ISBN: 9780521600859Publication Date: 2009-07-27In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries. -
Slavery and Public History
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ISBN: 9780807859162Publication Date: 2009-02-01America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the culture wars over the way that slavery is remembered and taught have reached a new crescendo. From the argument about the display of the Confederate flag over the state house in Columbia, South Carolina, to the dispute over Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings and the ongoing debates about reparations, the questions grow ever more urgent and more difficult. Edited by noted historians James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, this collection explores current controversies and offers a bracing analysis of how people remember their past and how the lessons they draw influence American politics and culture today. Bringing together some of the nation's most respected historians, including Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, and Gary B. Nash, this is a major contribution to the unsettling but crucial debate about the significance of slavery and its meaning for racial reconciliation. Contributors: Ira Berlin, University of Maryland David W. Blight, Yale University James Oliver Horton, George Washington University Lois E. Horton, George Mason University Bruce Levine, University of Illinois Edward T. Linenthal, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Joanne Melish, University of Kentucky Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles Dwight T. Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University Marie Tyler-McGraw, Washington, D.C. John Michael Vlach, George Washington University -
Arguing about Slavery
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ISBN: 0394569229Publication Date: 1996-01-16A blow-by-blow re-creation of the battle royal that raged in Congress in the 1830s, when a small band of representatives, led by President John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, employed intricate stratagems to outwit the Southern (and Southern-sympathizing) sponsors of the successive "gag" rules that had long blocked debate on the subject of slavery. -
American Slavery
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ISBN: 0809016303Publication Date: 2003-09-01The single best short survey in America, now updated. Includes a New Preface and Afterward In terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay. It remains the best book to introduce a subject of profound and lasting importance, one that lies at the center of American history.
