Diaries, letters, memoirs, journals

Use the SABIO Information Gateway
choose "Catalogs of Books and More," and select Author

• Search the person as an author (Last name, first name)
  e.g. Jefferson, Thomas
          Bloomer, Amelia

Reports about the person or place in newspapers of the time

18th and 19th Century Newspapers in the UA Library
New York Times (Historic) 1851-1999
(fully searchable and complete fulltext contents of the NYT)

Reports about the person in magazines of the time

Search Pooles' Plus

• Identify the magazines where the articles were published, then
• Search the SABIO Catalog for the magazine title, find the call number and then the magazine.

Websites

Diaries, letters, minutes, journals

Use the SABIO Information Gateway
choose "Catalogs of Books and More" and select Subject Headings:

• American loyalists
• American Party (used for Know Nothings)
• Cherokee Indians History
• New Harmony
• Oneida Community
• Personal Narratives British United States
• Plantation life
• Plantation owners
• Slave insurrections
• Slaveholders
• Slavery united states personal narratives
• Slaves writing, American

Or search for the following as a Keyword:

• Abolitionists
• Anti-federalists
• Black state conventions
• Negro conventions (must use plural)
• Opposition and constitution
• Personal narratives confederate
• Personal narratives union soldier
• Personal narratives union army civil
• Slave narratives
  

Reports about the group or organization in newspapers of the time

18th and 19th Century Newspapers in the UA Library
New York Times (Historic) 1851-1999
(fully searchable and complete fulltext contents of the NYT)

Websites

American Civil War Collections
American Life Histories (includes slave narratives)
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
** Documenting the American South (the best to start with)
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (search "fugitive slave" or "slaveholder")
Georgia Digital Library (Primary sources relating to Cherokee Indians - see Southeastern Native American Documents, Digital Newspapers-Cherokee Phoenix, Civil Unrest)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Women and Social Movements(Original documents about Oneida community, New Harmony,)

Diaries, letters, memoirs

Use the SABIO Information Gateway and choose "Catalogs of Books and More" to search Subject Headings:

• Confederate States of America
• Dakota Indians wars 1862
• Draft Riot New York
• Mexican War
• Navajo Indians Wars
• United States History Revolution
• United States History Civil War

Hint: Use "Limit/Sort" (middle button on top row) when you find too many hits, then:

• On the 3rd line, select "Words in SUBJECT."
• In the box, type in
  • PERSONAL NARRATIVES
  • DIARIES
  • CORRESPONDENCE
  • SOURCES

Search by Keyword

• Long walk Navajo

Reports about the event or group in newspapers of the time

18th and 19th Century Newspapers in the UA Library
New York Times (Historic) 1851-1999
(fully searchable and complete fulltext contents of the NYT)
RSAP - Links to full text 19th century newspapers and magazines

Reports about the event in magazines of the time

Search Pooles' Plus, a database of 19th-century magazines

• Identify the magazines where the articles were published, then
• Search the SABIO Catalog for the magazine title, find the call number and then the magazine

Harpweek (Harpers Weekly, 1857-1865)

Websites

American Memory Project - Library of Congress
American Life Histories (includes slave narratives)
Documenting the American South
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
Georgia Digital Library (Primary sources relating to Cherokee Indians - see Southeastern Native American Documents, Digital Newspapers-Cherokee Phoenix, Civil Unrest)
American Civil War Collections
Valley of the Shadow - story of two communities, one North and one South during and after the Civil War

Printed Government Documents

Historical U.S. Census Documents

Websites

Valley of the Shadow - story of two communities, one North and one South during and after the Civil War. Enter the archive and select 1860 Statistics and newspapers, and 1870 Statistics and newspapers.

United States Historical Census Data Browser

1. Select a decade from blue column on the left.
2. Select variables (up to 15); use the [Ctrl] key as you click to select more than one variable.
3. Click "Browse Data" button near the bottom of the page.
4. To retrieve county-level information
   • check the box to the left of the state name
   • click the "View Counties" button.

Manuals and materials published at the time

Use the SABIO Information Gateway choose "Catalogs of Books and More," and select Subject Headings:

• Abolitionists >and then Limit/Sort by Words in the SUBJECT to sources
• Antislavery movements
• Etiquette for women
• Marriage guides
• Minstrel shows
• Women Conduct of life
• Conduct of Life >and then Limit/Sort by Words in the SUBJECT men (to find manuals in men's social roles)

Use Limit/Sort by date. Select after 1800 and before 1870

Search by Keyword

• conjuring
• conjur* and slav*

Reports about the event or group in magazines of the time

New York Times (Historic) 1851-1999
(fully searchable and complete fulltext contents of the NYT)

Harpweek : The Civil War Era 1857-1865

Search 19th Century Masterfile, a database of 19th-century magazines.

Hint: Searching "Married women" locates magazine articles about behavior and the role of women.

Hint: search the word "etiquetter"

• Identify the magazines where the articles were published, then
• Search the SABIO Catalog for the magazine title, find the call number and then the magazine

Websites

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Documenting the American South
Godey's Lady's Book, 1850 issues. Famous women's magazine
Women and Social Movements(Original documents and images for Amelia Bloomer)

Topic 25: Use Loom and Spindle: Life Among the Early Mill Girls, by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson. and The Lowell Offering (magazine produced by mill workers). (Search SABIO title)

Topics 26,27,28 & 29: Use Documentary History of American Industrial Society (Search SABIO for it by title)