SOURCES FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND WRITING:

A Selective Guide

Materials cited in this bibliography are located in the Microforms and Documents Department, (Mic. & Docs. Dept.), Ralph Brown Draughon Library, unless otherwise indicated. Two different classification schemes are used in Mic. & Docs. Dept.. Most federal publications, both hardcopy (i.e. paper) and microfiche) are shelved or filed according to the Superintendent of Documents classification (SuDocs) which groups them by the issuing agency rather than by subject. The location Mic. & Docs. Dept. Library of Congress refers to materials in Library of Congress classification, rather than SuDocs. Microforms are filed alphabetically by title unless noted. Ask for assistance if you have difficulty in locating materials.

STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS

For recent and some historical statistics, use American Statistics Index (ASI) for U.S. government statistics issued since the 1970's; Statistical Reference Index (SRI) covering state and non-federal statistics since 1980; and Index to International Statistics, (IIS) covering statistical publications of international intergovernmental organizations since 1983. All three have companion microfiche sets and are shelved on Mic. & Docs. Dept. Index Tables. The Statistical MasterFile which is available from any library computer and from any Novell computer laboratory is an electronic database including all three publications and can be searched using keywords and phrases.

Two important publications containing statistics and identifying other sources are:

Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1878-
Location and Call Number: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents Collection [C 3.134:<yr.>]
(Latest edition available at the Mic. & Docs. Dept. reference desk.)

Annual statistical compendium with statistics from both federal and other sources. Gives source notes, enabling users to find more detailed information. Also available as full-text using AUBIECat--the Libraries electronic catalog of books.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
Location and Call Number: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Desk Reference Collection
[C 3.134/2:H 62/790-970]

Similar in subject coverage to Statistical Abstract of the United States, but includes historical data sets. It also includes bibliographical references.

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

The standard guide to reference materials covering all fields and international in scope is Sheehy's Guide to Reference Books. Arranged by subject, it includes annotations and an author and title index. A copy is located at each department's reference desk.

MICROFORM PERIODICAL SETS

American Periodical Series, microfilm
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection

Microfilmed collection of 1,100 periodicals dating from 1741 to 1900. Bibliographic information for every journal title included in the microfilm set are also available in AUBIECat--the Libraries electronic catalog of books.

American Periodical Series, 1741-1900: an Index to the Microfilm Collections--American Periodicals 18th Century, American Periodicals, 1800-1850, American Periodicals, 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Desk Reference Collection
Call Number: PN 4877 .H6

Gives bibliographic information and reel numbers for periodicals in the APS microfilm set. Does not index specific periodical articles. Bibliographic information for every journal title included in the microfilm set are also available in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Index to American Periodicals of the 1700s: Keyed to University Microfilms APS I
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: PN 4877 .I545 1986

This index provides citations to individual articles contained in the periodicals of the microfilm set APS I. It is primarily by subject and gives reel and frame numbers. Article indexing and citation can also be searched using the CD-ROM mounted on the Mic. & Docs. Dept. work station no. 5.

Index to American Periodicals of the 1800s: Keyed to University Microfilms APS II
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: PN 4877 .I546

This index provides citations to individual articles contained in the periodicals of the microfilm set APS II. It is primarily by subject and gives reel and frame numbers. Article indexing and citation can also be searched using the CD-ROM mounted on the Mic. & Docs. Dept. work station no. 5.

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
Location: Humanities Index Tables
Call Number: AI 3 .P7

Covers 1802 to 1881 with supplements to 1907. Subject index to 479 U.S. and British periodicals. Separate author index at AI 3 .W3 on Humanities Dept. index tables.

Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890- 1899: with Supplementary Indexing, 1900-1922
Location: Humanities Dept. Index Tables
Call Number: AI 3 .R496

Author and subject index to 51 periodicals from 1890 to 1899. Indexing for some titles was done up to 1922 in order to fill gaps in coverage provided by other Wilson indexes.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900-
Location: Humanities Dept. Index Tables
Call Number: AI 3 .R4

Began by indexing only 15 periodicals, but coverage expanded to 99 titles by 1905. Indexes only general-interest periodicals.

Early British Periodicals, microfilm
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection

Microfilmed collection of over 160 18th and 19th century periodicals on 902 reels of microfilm. Bibliographic records for each journal title are included in AUBIECat -- the Libraries electronic catalog of books.

A Guide to the Early British Periodicals Collection on Microfilm with Title, Subject, Editor, and Reel Number Indexes
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: PN 5124 .P4 U5 1980

Gives bibliographic information and reel numbers for periodicals in the EBP microfilm set. Does not index specific periodical articles. Bibliographic records for each journal title are included in AUBIECat -- the Libraries book electronic catalog.

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Location: Humanities Dept. Index and Bibliography Shelves
Call Number: AI 3 .W45

Intended to improve access to material indexed by Poole's, but includes only a few titles appearing in the Early British Periodicals microfilm.

EARLY NEWSPAPERS AND INDEXES

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept. CD-ROM Work Station No. 5

The full-text of articles taken from over 2,500 issues of newspapers published between November 1, 1860 and April 30, 1865.

English Newspapers in the Burney Collection, 1763-1781
Location: Mic. & Docs. Department Microfilm Collection

This set consists of several newspapers filmed chronologically rather than with all issues of a newspaper being filmed together. The result is, for example, that all newspapers for January 15, 1774, appear together on the microfilm. The content is similar to a series called Early English Newspapers. The latter are filmed by title in the conventional manner and holdings may be found in AUBIEPlus by entering either Early English Newspapers or the title of the specific newspaper sought.

New York Daily Tribune Index
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection

Covers time period 1875 through 1906, but is less detailed than the New York Times Index. The newspaper itself is filed under New York Tribune.

New York Times Index
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Tables
Call Number: AI 21 .N45

Coverage begins with September 1851. In early years the index was infrequently cumulated and the indexing is of varying quality. Supplemented by a cumulative personal name index at CT 104 .F28 1976 on Mic. & Docs. Dept. index tables.

Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper covers the Times of London from 1790 to June 1941 (Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection, filed after the Times). Less detailed than the Index to the Times, which this library has from 1942 through 1973 (Mic. & Docs. Dept., Reference AI 21 .T46).

Additional Newspaper Sources

This library has a large collection of newspapers, principally from the U.S. and Great Britain. They are filed by the title of the newspaper in the microfilm cabinets in Mic. & Docs. Dept.. To find whether the library owns newspapers from a certain geographic area, use the last drawers of the Serials Catalog, located across from the Mic. & Docs. Dept. reference desk, which contain a geographic listing of newspapers for titles acquired before the mid-1980's.

Unfortunately, there exist almost no published indexes, other than the four noted above, until recent times. The library currently receives indexes to newspapers from Atlanta, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Washington. Indexes are also available for the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Great Britain's Guardian. Newsbank is a paper copy or compact disc index and microfiche set which is issue-oriented and has provided selective coverage of many U.S. newspapers since 1980. All these materials are located in Mic. & Docs. Dept..

To determine what newspapers were published in a given area of the United States, use either Rowell's American Newspaper Directory for 1869 through 1880, (Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection) or Ayer Newspaper Annual (title varies) for later years (Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection for 1880 through 1973).

Mic. & Docs. Dept. has a substantial collection of black newspapers which are filed by title with other newspapers. A title file in Mic. & Docs. Dept. lists holdings. There is no known index to these.

OTHER MICROFILM SETS

Confederate Imprints, 1861-1865
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection
Call Number: Microfilm no. 4012

Microfilmed copies of over 5,000 items published in the Confederacy, including government publications and commercially-produced works. Information on these titles has been entered into AUBIECat--the Libraries electronic catalog of books.

Confederate Imprints: A Bibliography of Southern Publications from Secession to Surrender
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection and Special Collections, Alabama Collection
Call Number: Z 1242.5 .P37 1987

Bibliographic records for each collection included in this set have been added to AUBIECat--the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Early American Imprints, 1639-1800
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microcard Collection

Microform reproduction of the works listed in the bibliography below.

American Bibliography, A Chronological Dictionary of All books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America from the Genesis of Printing in 1639 Down to and Including the Year 1800
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: Z 1215 .E523

Includes indexes by author, subject, and printers and publishers.

Early American Imprints, 1801-1819
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microcard Collection

Microform reproduction of the works listed in the bibliography below.

American Bibliography, A Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: Z 1215 .548

Intended to supplement the earlier American Bibliography by Evans. Includes author and title indexes.

Pamphlets in American History
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfiche

Microfiche reproduction of the 150,000 pamphlets held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, with additional contributions from other libraries, Materials are listed in the bibliography below and on AUBIECAT. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfiche collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Pamphlets in American History
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection and Social Sciences Reference Collection
Call Number: E 173 .P28

Bibliographic information on pamphlets is arranged in broad groups, such as labor, Indians, Mexican War, with indexes by author, title, and subject. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfiche collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: Resources in the Economic, Social, Business, and Political History of Modern Industrial Society
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection
Call Number: Microfilm no. 3724

About 30,000 book and periodical titles in ten languages on 1,669 rolls of microfilm, spanning the fifteenth century to 1850. Bibliographic information is on AUBIECat and items are indexed in the bibliographies below. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfiche collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: A Consolidated Guide to Segment I and Segment II of the microfilm Collection
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection and Social Sciences Reference Collection
Call Number: Z 7164 .E2 G64

Lists items in the microfiche collection by year, then divides them by broad subject such as agriculture, social conditions, finance, trade, and politics. No index has been published but bibliographic records for each item included in this microfiche collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books. This allows author, title, subject, and keyword searching.

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: HB 30 .L65

Similar to the above work, but includes an index by author, title, and place name. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfiche collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Early English Books: 1375-1640, microfilm
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection

Result of a continuing project to microfilm the works listed in the bibliographies below. Bibliographic records for each item in this microfilm collection are being included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: Z 2002.P77 1976

Revision of the 1948 edition, arranged by author, with the addition of an index of printers. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfilm collection are being included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Early English Books, 1475-1640, Selected from Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection and Humanities Dept.
Call Number: Z 2002 .U57

Similar to the above volume, but contains reel and position numbers needed to find items in the microfilmed collection. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfilm collection are being included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Early English Books: 1641-1700, microfilm
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection

Continues the microfilmed set listed above, consisting of items listed in the bibliographies below. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfilm collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: Z 2002 .W5 1972

This work by Wing continues the Pollard and Redgrave bibliography.

Early English Books, 1641-1700: A Cumulative Index to Units 1-60 of the Microfilm Collection
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: Z 2002 .U586 1990

Author, title, and subject indexes to the first 42,500 titles in the microfilmed set, and provides reel and position numbers. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfilm collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
British Records Relating to America in Microform
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfiche and Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection

Several titles in this set are listed in AUBIECat. Each title has an index and introduction at its beginning.

National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfiche

Consists of over 8,000 microfiche containing reproductions of published and unpublished finding aids, registers, indexes, and collection guides for archival repositories throughout the United States. Guides to the first two parts of the collection are shelved at Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection CD 3022 .N373 1985 and CD 3022 .N375 1983. Guides to the remaining two parts are microfiche and filed with the rest of the collection.

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfilm Collection

Almost 190 microfilm reels of plantation records held by several libraries throughout the South. Guides to each series are listed on AUBIECat and shelved at Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection HD 1471 .U5 S33. Bibliographic records for each item included in this microfilm collection are included in AUBIECat-- the Libraries' electronic catalog of books.

Additional Microform Sets

The library owns microform editions of many other archival collections, including Papers of the NAACP, an Appalachian oral history collection, reader's typescripts of BBC newscasts during World War II, and documents from the first thirty years of the National Security Council. In addition, the library owns several hundred reels of microfilm from the National Archives, including selected papers of the Continental Congress, State Department files, and manuscript Census rolls.

Microfilm Resources for Research: a Comprehensive Catalog (Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection CD 3026 1986) lists records available on microfilm from the National Archives, and notes those accompanied by guides and finding aids, called "descriptive pamphlets". Many other guides to archival material can be found using AUBIECat.
Guide to the National Archives of the United States
Location and Call Number: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Reference GS 4.6/2:N 21
Social Sciences Reference CD 3023 .U54 1974

An annotated guide to the collections of the National Archives, with indexes by organizational unit, name, and broad subject.

INDEXES TO U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1895-
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Tables
Call Number: GP 3.8:

General index to federally-published material from all branches of government. Information in issues since July 1976 can be found also on AUBIECat.

United States Government Publications: A Monthly Catalogue, 1885-1894
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Tables
Call Number: Z 1213 .Z7 C87 1978

Compiled by John H. Hickox, these volumes are the predecessor to Monthly Catalog.

Catalog of the Public Documents of Congress and of Other Departments of the Government of the United States, 1893-1940
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Tables
Call Number: GP 3.6:

Called "Document Catalog", this is a more detailed index than Monthly Catalog, and includes some entries for periodicals. Does not give Superintendent of Documents classification numbers, but does provide Serial Set volume numbers for materials located there.

Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Tables
Call Number: Z 1223 .A113

This 1909 Checklist lacks subject and title indexes, but lists ln order by Superintendent of Documents classification number, every government publication held in the Government Printing Office library in 1911. Gives the Serial Set volume number for materials there.

CIS U.S. Serial Set Index
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Tables
Call number: KF 49 .C6 C7

Indexes House and Senate Reports and Documents, collectively known as the Serial Set, and the American State Papers, which preceded the Serial Set. Before the early twentieth century, the Serial Set included many detailed annual reports of agencies, as well as being the source for legislative history.

US Congressional Committee Hearings Index
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Table

Indexes in detail hearings held through 1969, by name and affiliation of witness, subject of hearing, and related bill number.

CIS US Congressional Committee Prints Index
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Table

Indexes studies done at the request of committees, in order to provide further background information on issues under consideration.

CIS/Index, 1970-
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Table

Successor to the CIS indexes to the serial set, hearings, and committee prints. In addition to the features of its predecessors, this work contains more detailed abstracts of each publication and of each witness' testimony, and includes legislative history information for each Public Law.

The library also has indexes to a microfiche set of unpublished House and Senate hearings (Mic. & Docs. Dept., Index Table).

Transdex Index, 1971-
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection
Call Number: Z 1223 .Z7 T72

Title keyword, not subject, index to periodical articles translated by the Joint Publications Research Services. Includes a list of JPRS series and their Superintendent of Documents classification numbers. Annual cumulations for 1975 through 1988 are in Mic. & Docs. Dept., Microfiche Collection. Full text of the translations are in Mic. & Docs. Dept., Govt Microfiche Microfiche.

Daily Report

Since the late 1940's, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service has monitored and translated foreign news broadcasts. Scattered issues of these reports dating back to the 1960's are in the Social Sciences Department. Holdings since the late 1970's are in Mic. & Docs. Dept., Govt Microfiche. These reports are grouped by world area, such as Eastern Europe or Sub-Saharan Africa. Bibliographic information for each area's series may be found on AUBIECat, but frequently-changing series titles may require some user perseverance. Since that time, each series has been accompanied by a rather poor index, taken from the table of contents of each day's microfiche. The indexes change titles with the series title, but can be found on AUBIECat. They are shelved in Mic. & Docs. Dept., Library of Congress Collection.

IMPORTANT FEDERALLY-PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES

Congressional Record, 1873-
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents
Call Number: X.Congress number

A record of the proceedings and debates of Congress, indexed by name, subject, and bill number. Preceded by Debates and Proceedings, often called Annals of Congress, which covers 1789- 1824; Register of Debates, covering 1814-1837; and Congressional Globe, which covers 1833-1873. More recent issues are indexed and available as full-text using GPO Access which is a component of AUBIEPlus--the Libraries' Web site.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897
Location and Call Number: Mic. & Docs. Dept.,Documents Y 4.P 93/1:3/
Social Sciences J 81 .B96

Commercially-published versions fill the gaps between this work and the following title.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents
Call Number: GS 4.113:(Carter and earlier) AE 2.114: (Reagan and later)

Covers Presidents Hoover, and Truman through Carter. Franklin Roosevelt's papers were commercially published. Generally consists of one or two volumes per year and includes an index. Also available as a CD-ROM with indexing and full-text on Mic. & Docs. Dept. MultiMADD work station.

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Aug. 2, 1965-
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents
Call Number: AE 2.109: Issues earlier than October 1989 are in Social Sciences folio J 80 .A284.

More current and less edited than the Public Papers series.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1870-
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents
Call Number: S 1.1:

Large set consisting of diplomatic correspondence of the United States. Published only as documents are declassified, and so is complete only to the late 1950's.

OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Desk Reference Collection and Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents Collection
Call Number: Serial Set 13849

Entries arranged by member's name, includes list of members of each Congress.

Official Congressional Directory, 1888-
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents
Call Number: Y 4.P 93/1:1/
(Latest edition in Mic. & Docs. Dept., Desk Reference Collection and Social Sciences Reference Collection.)

Handbook of information on the U.S. government and key officials, with emphasis on Congress. Also available using GPO Access which is a component of AUBIEPlus--the Libraries' Web Site.

United States Government Manual, 1935-
Location and Call Number: Mic. & Docs. Dept., Documents GS 4. 109: (after 1985/86, AE 2.108/2:) and Social Sciences JK 421 .A3
(Latest edition in Mic. & Docs. Dept., Reference Collection and Social Sciences Reference Collection.)

Gives brief descriptions of most federal government agencies. Includes organization charts, agency and personal name indexes, and a list of discontinued agencies. Also available using GPO Access which is a component of AUBIEPlus--the Libraries' Web Site.

ADDITIONAL ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Niles' Register
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept. Work Station No. 5
Call Number:

Cumulative index of the period 1811-1849 and includes over 350,000 entries for people, places, and events.

War of the Rebellion
Location: Mic. & Docs. Dept. MultiMADD Work Station No. 1
Call Number: E 464 .U65 1996

...the official records ... prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War, by Bvt. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott ... and published pursuant to act of Congress approved June 16, 1880. Series 1, vol. II" The complete Army Official Records of the American Civil War: 127 books that contain the original battle reports and correspondence of the Civil War.