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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
 

TITLE	LOCATION	LOCATION BROWSE
100 Key Documents in American Democracy	REF. E173 .A15	Browse E 173
American Decades. 9 Vols.	Ref. E169.12 .A419	Browse E 169
The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American history	REF. E174 .A535	Browse E 174
The American Revolution, 1775-1783: an Encyclopedia. 2 Vols.	REF. E208 .A433	Browse E 208
Battle Chronicles of the Civil War	REF. E470 .B29	Browse E 470
Dictionary of American History	REF. E174 .D52	Browse E 174
The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates	REF. E174 .5 .c3	Browse E 174
The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America	REF. E188 .E63	Browse E 188
Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War	REF. E468 .H57	Browse E 468
The Murrow Book of Quotations in American history	REF. E179 .M88	Browse E 179
The Readers Companion to American History	REF. E174 .R43	Browse E 174
Who was who in the American Revolution.	REF. E206 .P87	Browse E 206

Databases, Indexes and Abstracts
 

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TITLE & LOCATION	DESCRIPTION	AVAILABILITY	ACCESS
ABC POL SCI	Contains citations from more than 300 political science journals	1984-present	Check MaagNet and/or OhioLINK Central Catalog for Journal Title(s)
America: History and Life	United States and Canada, prehistory to present	First published in 1964	Check MaagNet and/or OhioLINK Central Catalog for Journal Title(s)
ArchivesUSA	Includes three major national information resources: the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositiories in the United States (DAMRUS), the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collection (NUCMC), and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).	NUCMC - information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950's to the present.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index	Provides access to multi-disciplinary information from 1,100 of the world's leading arts and  humanities research journals published since 1990.  Cited items may be critical in nature or original creative works (novels, poems, works of philosophy, paintings, musical compositions, etc)	1990-present	Check MaagNet and/or OhioLINK Central Catalog for Journal Title(s)
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era	Full text and images of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War era. Includes stories, illustrations, book reviews, serialized novels, advertising and maps from the weekly.	1857-1865
Historical Abstracts	World history, 1450-present.  Includes citations to both historical writings and recent events.	First published in 1967	Check MaagNet and/or OhioLINK Central Catalog for Journal Title(s)
Humanities Index AI3 .H85	Cumulative index to English language periodicals by subject and author. Book reviewsare listed at the end of the index. Subjects include archeology, classical studies, folklore, history, language, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.	v. 1 (1974/75 - present) (Most recent five years are located on the  index tables)	Check MaagNet and/or OhioLINK Central Catalog for Journal Title(s)
WorldCat	Records of books, computer data files, computer programs, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videos.  Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.	1200-present	Check MaagNet and/or OhioLINK Central Catalog for Title(s)

Journals/Periodicals
 

TITLE	LOCATION	AVAILABILITY
The American Historical Review	E171 .A57 MICROFILM  X 369	V1(1895/96) to date
Civil War History	E461 .C5	V1(1955) to date
Diplomatic History	E183.7 .D48	V1(1977) to date
The Journal of American History	E171 .J87	V51(1964/65) to date
Magazine of History	D16.3 .M33	V6(1991) to date

Web Sites American Studies Web Horus' Web Links to History Resources Making of America UShistory.org

YSU Course Resources

Academic Departments Ohio State University Department of History YSU Department of History

Libraries American History Collections (Microforms, Penn State) American Memory (Library of Congress) Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)

Associations American Association for State and Local History American Historical Association Associations Unlimited - The Gale Group