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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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. -
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore a vast collection of academic eBooks across multiple disciplines.
Find: full-text academic eBooks from leading publishers, covering subjects like business, education, health, technology, humanities, social sciences, and many more.
Great for: reading in-depth scholarly content, citing reputable sources for research papers, downloading chapters for offline reading, taking notes directly within texts, finding comprehensive overviews of complex topics, or exploring foundational knowledge in any academic field. -
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I & V This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore a wide collection of academic articles across the humanities and social sciences.
Find: peer-reviewed journal articles, book reviews, eBooks, images, and primary source materials on topics such as art and art history, classical studies, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, and political science.
Great for: analyzing primary source materials for history and political science assignments, including service-learning projects and group presentations, or exploring topics for coursework in philosophy, art history, and other humanities.
Books
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The Chinese in America
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ISBN: 0670031232Publication Date: 2003-04-28Iris Chang made headlines in 1997 with the publication of The Rape of Nanking-a meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered examination of the sacking of that great city by the Japanese during World War II. Many readers of The Rape of Nankingresponded to its themes of the fight for justice and the assertion of cultural identity-themes Chang expands upon in her new book. Chang, the daughter of second-wave Chinese immigrants, has written an extraordinary narrative that encompasses the entire history of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day. Chang takes a fresh look at what it means to be an American and draws a complex portrait of the many accomplishments of the Chinese in their adopted country, from building the transcontinental railroad to major scientific and technological advances. A sensitive, deeply moving story of individuals whose lives have shaped and been shaped by this history, The Chinese in Americais a saga of raw human tenacity and a testament to the determination of a people to forge an identity and destiny in a strange land. -
Blood, Iron, and Gold
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ISBN: 9781586488345Publication Date: 2010-03-02The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution that would forever transform the way we live. Blood, Iron, and Gold takes us on a journey encompassing jungle, mountain, and desert, revealing the huge impact of the railroads as they spread rapidly across entire countries, and linked cities that hitherto had little reach beyond their immediate environs. The rise of the train triggered daring engineering feats, great architectural innovation, and the rapid movement of people and goods across the globe. Cultures were both enriched and destroyed by the unrelenting construction of the railroads, and the new technology quickly took on a vital role in civil conflicts and two world wars. In this beautifully illustrated book, renowned transportation journalist Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious pioneers who developed the railways that would dominate the globe. -
Nothing Like It in the World
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ISBN: 0684846098Publication Date: 2000-08-29In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimedUndaunted Courage,which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark.Nothing Like It in the Worldis the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished, but Abraham Lincoln, who was an early and constant champion of railroads, would not live to see the great achievement. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes to life.The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomo-tives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. This was the last great building project to be done mostly by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels through mountains.At its peak, the workforce -- primarily Chinese on the Central Pacific, Irish on the Union Pacific -- approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as fifteen thousand workers on each line. The Union Pacific was led by Thomas "Doc" Durant, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Ames, with Grenville Dodge -- America's greatest railroad builder -- as chief engineer. The Central Pacific was led by California's "Big Four": Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, were latter-day Lewis and Clark types who led the way through the wilderness, living off buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope.In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation. -
Wedding of the Waters
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ISBN: 0393052338Publication Date: 2005-01-01The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Best-selling author Peter Bernstein presents the story of the canal's construction against the larger tableau of America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Examining the social, political, and economic ramifications of this mammoth project, Bernstein demonstrates how the canal's creation helped prevent the dismemberment of the American empire and knit the sinews of the American industrial revolution. Featuring a rich cast of characters, including not only political visionaries like Washington, Jefferson, van Buren, and the architect's most powerful champion, Governor DeWitt Clinton, but also a huge platoon of Irish diggers as well as the canal's first travelers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history. -
The Artificial River
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ISBN: 0809016052Publication Date: 1997-06-12The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial Riverreveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers-to this major environmental, social, and cultural transformation in the early life of the Republic. Winner of Best Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association "The Artificial Riveris deeply researched, its arguments are both subtle and clear, and it is written with grace and an engagingly light touch. The book merits a wide readership." --Paul Johnson, The Journal of American History
