AMH 2010

Instructor: Prof. Pietrzak

 

Using primary sources to analyze the reasons as to what prompted political leaders to act decisively for revising the Articles of Confederation.

 

Finding Primary Sources

 

1.    U/CL Catalog Subject Heading:

 

United States – History – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Sources

 

 

2.    Databases

American Memory from the Library of Congress

 

        History Reference Center

 

        JSTOR (*Only secondary sources)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE FOLLOWING DATABASES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FAU NETWORK COMPUTERS
(ONLY WITHIN THE U/CL LIBRARY)

American Periodical Series (APS) Online | 1740-1900 | Full Text |  Vendor: ProQuest
Contents/Info: Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 | 1690-1876 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Contents/Info: Early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states.  Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876).

Archive of Americana | 1690-1876 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Contents/Info: This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.  This resource contains "America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876" "Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800," and "Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819."  This resource provides the opportunity to search all three collections at once.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 | 1639-1800 | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
Contents/Info: Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

ECCO-TCP (Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Text Creation Partnership) | | Eighteenth Century | Full Text |  Vendor: University of Michigan and Thomson-Gale
Contents/Info: The University of Michigan and Thomson-Gale are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 10,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 150,000 titles available in the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) corpus. ECCO is a significant collection of titles relating to the history of eighteenth century Britain, and the Text Creation Partnership seeks to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works.

Evans Early American Imprint Collection - Text Creation Partnership (Evans -TCP) | Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries | Full Text | Vendor: The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society
Contents/Info: The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the Evans Early American Imprints Collection. Evans is the most significant collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America, and the Text creation partnership seeks to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works.