Pew Learning Center & Ellison Library


HIS 393 - Politics of Slavery

Instructor: Ruth Currie
Librarian: David Bradshaw , ext. 3059


Books, Videos & CDs:

Search the MCLN Catalog
NetLibrary, History E-Book Project and other e-book collectionsfor over 50,000 electronic books.
Other Library Catalogsto see what's available at UNC-A and other local libraries.
WorldCatsearches the collections of libraries all over the world and indexes books, audiovisuals, & archival and manuscript materials.

Articles & Databases:

Journal Sources:

You could try these interdisciplinary, full-text periodical databases which cover almost any subject area. There are over 10,000 full-text journal titles in these three databases:

Academic Search Premier
MasterFILE Premier
Proquest Research Library

Next, try some of these more specialized indexes:

JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archivecontains complete backfiles of key journals covering many subject areas including history (over 50 journals in history).

America History & Lifea great index w/ abstracts only (no full text), covering pre-history to the present for the U.S. and Canada.

American Civil War: Letters & Diaries

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

Other Possibilities:

American National Biography
Annals of American History
Arts & Humanities Search
Biography Resource Center
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Early Encounters in North America
Humanities Index
North American Women's Letters & Diairies
Oral History Online
In the First Person
Original Sources
Social Sciences Package
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women Working, 1800-1930

Newspaper Sources:

The New York Times Historicalfull coverage back to 1851.

Web Sites:

Take a look at our library's selected list of History web sites.

American Memory Projectpart of the American Digital Library Project of the Library of Congress, this site is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Documenting the American Southa great collection of primary documents.
Making of Americacontains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
North American Slave Narrativespart of the Documenting the American South collection from UNC-Chapel Hill
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Projectfrom the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
United States Historical Census Data Browserfor census data between 1790 and 1970.
American Civil War Home Page
American History Document Collection
Eastern North Carolina Digital Librarycontains 399 fiction and non-fiction volumes, 150+ museum artifacts, maps and educational material pertaining to the history of the 41 counties in Eastern North Carolina. Includes Walter Clark’s Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-65, better known as “Clark’s Regiments.”
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolitionincludes over 200 primary documents from 1692 through the 20th century.
North Carolina ECHO"Exploring Cultural Heritage Online": a gateway to special collections in the state's cultural collecting agencies (libraries, archives, and museums). Also includes links to some digitized collections.
Western North Carolina Heritagea digital repository of core information by and about the people of the mountains of North Carolina.
North Carolina State Archives
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies from eHistory at OSU.

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