HIS 5207: American Environmental History

History 5207: American Environmental History

Dr. Timothy Silver

Spring 2008

Databases/Article Indexes (to locate articles & primary documents: will open in a new window)

Reference Sources

Library Catalogs (to locate books, journal titles and other materials)

Web Resources

Primary Sources on the Web

Reference Sources

Britannica Online
Available on & off campus
Includes more than 72,000 encyclopedia articles with photographs, drawings, full motion video and audio clips,
and more than 130,000 reviewed Web sites.

American Decades
ASU REF E169.12.A419 1994
A 10-volume set covering the decades of 20th century America .

American Attitudes : who thinks what about the issues that shape our lives
ASU REF HN90.P8 M58 c2000

Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History
ASU REF GF503.A419 2003
Chronicles environmental and conservation issues from Colonial to Contemporary times. Extensive bibliography.

The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
ASU REF GF501 .M47 2002
Developments and resources in the environmental field. Survey of topics, themes, people, concepts, and laws
that have influenced environmental history. Also includes an A-Z list of topics and a 100-page bibliography.

Dictionary of American History
ASU REF E174 .D52 1976
Eight-volume, informative reference work on American history. Parks Directory of the United States
ASU REF E160 .S65 2001

American National Biography
ASU REF CT213.A68
Successor to the Dictionary of American Biography, this 24 volume set "has substantially broadened
the criteria for the inclusion of subjects." A descriptive bibliography is appended to each article and may
include primary sources.

New York Times Index
ASU REF AI21 .N452x 1851-2000
Also has a Personal Name Index.

Washington Post Index
ASU REF AI21.W33 O54x 1973-1983

Style Manuals for Citing Sources

Library Catalogs (To Locate Books, Journal Titles and Other Materials)
Library Catalog
To locate books, journal titles (after you have used an index to identify specific articles), and other materials in the ASU Libraries and the Western North Carolina Library Network (WNCLN).

WorldCat , 11th Century - to date (updated daily)
Available on & off campus
WorldCat is a catalog of over 35 million books, serials, audiovisual media, maps, archives/manuscripts, scores, and computer files from 17,000 libraries around the world. Electronic interlibrary loan requesting is available for qualified patrons. WorldCat is not an index to journal articles.

Web sites

Earthtrends: The Environmental Information Portal
http://earthtrends.wri.org/
From World Resources Institute, focusing on issues of sustainable development and the environment. Includes private organizations and national and international agencies. In some cases statistics go back forty to fifty years.

Environmental History on the Internet
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/eh-internet.html
Comprehensive list of resources from the College of Natural Resources, University of California at Berkeley.

History and Politics Out Loud
http://www.hpol.org/
"A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students."

ParkNet: The National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/
"Experience your America ": history, nature, science, and recreation.
America's National Park System: The Critical Documents
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anps/anps_toc.htm
Documents about the creation and maintenance of the parks.

Primary Sources

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history
and culture of the United States . The site offers more than 5 million items from more than 90 historical collections.

Documenting the American South Full Text
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of primary sources on Southern history,
literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
"Information and news from the National Park Service programs in archeology, ethnology, historic landscapes,
historic structures, history, and museum management. Includes good information relating to the American Civil War."

Making of America
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, science and technology.

Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 3200 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.

Words and Deeds in American History
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html
This site from the Library of Congress Web site, gives full-text access in both scanned and electronic formats to primary documents from America's history.

Research Librarian: Elizabeth M. Williams,
Appalachian State University Library,
willamsem@appstate.edu
Spring 2008.