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History 246: Fires, Famines, & Floods: Environmental Disasters in U.S. History
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Spring 2012 — Prof. McMillen
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Outline of this guide:
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Other resources & guides:
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Questions? Contact Susanna Boylston (704-894-2494).
- Office hours:
- Monday 1:00-3:00 pm
- Tuesday, 3:00-5:00 pm
- Thursday, 7:00-8:00 pm
- Also available by appointment.
Style Guides
- Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010.
Reference Information Desk: Z253 .U69 2010
Note: up to ten people can search the online version at any one time.
See also the Chicago Citation Quick Guide.
- A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Mary Lynn Rampolla. 6th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010.
Reference Information Desk D13 .R295 2010
- You can also use RefWorks to generate in-text citations and reference lists in Chicago format.
Background Information
Biographical Works | U.S. & Environmental History |
Statistical Data
- Biographical Works
- U.S. & Environmental History
- The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History. Ed. Char Miller. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Reference R 304.2 A881
- The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Ed. Kenneth F. Kiple. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.
Reference R 610.9 C178
- The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History. Carolyn Merchant. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2002.
Reference R 304.2 M554c
- Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. Ed. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Reference R 610.9 C737
- Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Ed. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter Williams. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
Reference R 973.04 E564
- Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton et al. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993.
Reference R 301.097 E56
- Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather. Ed. Stephen Schneider. 2 vols. New York: Oxford, 1996.
Reference R 551.5 E56
- Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Eds. David Ritchie and Alexander Gates. New ed. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
Reference R 551.2 R598e
- Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones. David Longshore. New YorK: Facts on File, 1998.
Reference R 551.5 L8571e
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996.
Reference R 973.03 E562
- Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Ed. Shepard Krech III. et al. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Reference R 304.2 E56
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of over 250 electronic reference works. Includes:
- Oxford Reference Online
Contains the full text of over 250 dictionaries, encyclopedias, and subject-specific reference works published by Oxford University Press.
- The Weather Almanac: A Reference Guide to Weather, Climate, and Related Issues in the United States. Ed. Richard Wood. 8th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1998.
Reference R 551.6 W361
- Statistical Data
- Datapedia of the United States: American History in Numbers. Ed. George Thomas Kurian. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Bernan, 2004.
Reference R 317.3 K96d3
- Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present. Ed. Susan B. Carter et al. 5 vols. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
Reference R 317.3 H673
- Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Reference R 317.3 U54 [recent years]
Government Document Stacks C 3.134 [1989 to present]
Online [1995 to present]
A compendium of statistics on a wide variety of subjects. Particularly useful for its source notes, which will direct to statistical publications that contain additional information. Also useful for retrospective information; the Library has a long run of this title, so you can consult tables in earlier volumes if you need to chart historical trends.
- U.S. Census data
- Decennials: Census of Population and House (1790-1900), from the U.S. Census Bureau (pdf files)
- Historical Census Browser (1790-1960), from the GeoStat Center at the University of Virginia Library
- The Davidson College Library also has many volumes of decennial census records, including the following.
They are shelved on the ground (lower) floor, at the start of the Government Information Stacks (i.e. the shelves immediately to your right as you exit the main stairwell on the ground floor).
Primary Sources
General Tools | Contemporary Books, Pamphlets, & Broadsides | Diaries | Periodicals & News Sources | Photographs & Images | Travel Accounts | U.S. Government Documents | Other Examples of Primary Sources
- General Tools
See also the bibliographies of primary sources in the bibliographies and background information sources listed above.
- Davidson Library WorldCat
To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: - sources
- archives
- correspondence
- diaries
- interviews
- personal narratives
- pictorial works
You can also do a keyword search and limit your search by publication date. - WorldCat Classic
To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words: - sources
- archives
- correspondence
- diaries
- interviews
- personal narratives
- pictorial works
Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. If you want to consult manuscripts or archival resources, you will need to contact the holding institutions directly.
You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format.
- Contemporary Books, & Pamphlets
In addition to Davidson Library WorldCat and WorldCat Classic, try the following:
- Archive of Americana
(c. 1639-1980) A collection of digital facsimiles of American books, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, and government documents. Includes:
- American Broadsides & Ephemera
(c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works.
- Early American Imprints
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States.
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides.
- Google Books
Be sure to limit your search to "Full view only" or "Public Domain only" in order to find books that you can view cover-to-cover and/or download.
For more information about public domain, see our guide to works in the public domain.
- Hathi Trust
A digital collection of works held by a number of major research libraries. Be sure to limit your search to "Full view only" to view works that you can view cover-to-cover.
Note: as of February 2012, 28% of works in the Hathi Trust are in the public domain. For more information about public domain, see our guide to works in the public domain.
- Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
(1800-1880) Includes digital facsimiles of books, government documents, and other materials; these works are selections from two microfiche collections, Travels in the West and Southwest (which Davidson owns; see below) and Plains and Rockies (which our library lacks). Part of Archives Unbound.
- Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel Over the Great Central Overland Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866. Merrill J. Mattes. Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988.
REF F591 .M37 1988
- Travels in the Old South [microfiche]
Microfiche cabinet A-3
Guide: REF Z1251 .S7 C68 1948
A collection of travelers' accounts of their visits to the Old South (1607-1860).
Also consult the bibliography on which this collection is based:
- Travels in the Old South: A Bibliography. Ed. Thomas D. Clark. 3 vols. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1956-1959.
REF F209 .C5 1956
Vol. 1: The Formative Years, 1527-1783
Vol. 2: The Expanding South, 1750-1825
Vol. 3: The Ante Bellum South, 1825-1860
- Travels in the West and Southwest [microfiche]
Microfiche cabinets
Contains a variety of books and other publications, such as speeches, promotional publications, biographies of Indian sympathizers, trappers, mountain men and cowboys, some periodicals, and many accounts of life in the vast region from St. Louis to San Francisco and from San Diego north to British Columbia.
- Diaries
See also the library's guide to diaries.
- American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. 2 vols. Laura Arksey et al. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1983-1985.
Reference R 016.92 A721a
Vol. 1: Diaries Written from 1492 to 1844
Vol. 2: Diaries Written from 1845 to 1980
- American Women's Diaries [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet C-2
This collection includes handwritten diaries from the colonial period through the beginning of the twentieth century. It is in three parts of this collection: New England Women (8 diaries), Southern Women (32 diaries), and Western Women (600 diaries).
Guides:
Segment 1, New England Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121n
Segment 2, Southern Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121s
Segment 3, Western Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121w
- And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. Patricia Pate Havlice. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987.
REF CT25 .H380 1987
- North American Women's Letters & Diaries
This collection provides the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. The texts were written contemporaneously; memoirs are not included.
- Periodicals & News Sources
The Little Library has many magazines, newspapers, and journals from this time period. As well as articles about presidents and first ladies, they also contain interviews, profiles, editorial cartoons, reprints of speeches, and much more.
- Popular Magazines
Including weekly and monthly consumer, news, and opinion magazines.
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- Newspapers
- 17th-18th Centuries
- America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922)
Contains digital facsimiles of over 1,375 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- Other Periodicals
To find articles in other types of periodicals, such as journals, search the following:
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index
(1907 to present). For the period 1907-1984, this database indexes journal articles in both the humanities and social sciences; it also includes the International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965). From 1985 to the present, the focus is on the humanities.
Search Syntax: - Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
- Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
- PAIS International
(1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
Search Syntax: - Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: automatic
- Wildcard: use a question mark ?
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: automatic
- Photographs & Images
Be sure to search the Library Catalog and WorldCat for books containing photographs as well; try adding the phrase "pictorial works" to your search.
- American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936, from the University of Chicago Library and the American Memory Project
- AP Images
(1826 to present [photographs]; 1920 to present [audio clips]; 1990 to present [charts and maps]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of over 2 million photographs, 1 million audio clips, 48,000 diagrams, charts, maps, and timelines, and 2.8 million news briefs from the Associated Press (AP). Updated daily.
Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
- ARTstor
A collection of over one million images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images.
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery, from the New York Public Library
Contains hundreds of thousands of images from the library's collections; includes images of photographs, illustrations, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more.
- Travel Accounts
- To find accounts of travelers' accounts, do Subject searches in the Library Catalog and Worldcat; include the name of the state or region and the phrase "description and travel."
Example:
- California description and travel
- Archive of Americana
(c. 1639-1980) A collection of digital facsimiles of American books, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, and government documents. Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 both contain published travel accounts.
- Making of America
Contains the full text of journals and books from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Note: There are two sites for the Making of America:
University of Michigan site
Cornell University site
- Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
(1800-1880) Includes digital facsimiles of books, government documents, and other materials; these works are selections from two microfiche collections, Travels in the West and Southwest (which Davidson owns; see below) and Plains and Rockies (which our library lacks). Part of Archives Unbound.
- Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel Over the Great Central Overland Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866. Merrill J. Mattes. Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988.
REF F591 .M37 1988
- Travels in the Confederate States: A Bibliography. E. Merton Coulter. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1948.
Reference R 016.917 C85t
- Travels in the Old South [microfiche]
Microfiche cabinet A-3
Guide: Reference R 016.975 C595t
A collection of travelers' accounts of their visits to the Old South (1607-1860).
Also consult the bibliography on which this collection is based:
- Travels in the Old South: A Bibliography. Ed. Thomas D. Clark. 3 vols. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1956-1959.
Reference R 016.917 C59tr
Vol. 1: The Formative Years, 1527-1783
Vol. 2: The Expanding South, 1750-1825
Vol. 3: The Ante Bellum South, 1825-1860
- Travels in the West and Southwest [microfiche]
Microfiche cabinets
Contains a variety of books and other publications, such as speeches, promotional publications, biographies of Indian sympathizers, trappers, mountain men and cowboys, some periodicals, and many accounts of life in the vast region from St. Louis to San Francisco and from San Diego north to British Columbia.
- U.S. Government Documents
- Archive of Americana
(c. 1639-1980) A collection of digital facsimiles of American books, broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, and government documents. Includes:
- American State Papers
(1789-1838) Contains the fully-searchable text of early American Congressional and Executive Department documents.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set
(1817-1994) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. political, military, cultural, economic, ethnic, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
From the Library of Congress's American Memory project. Contains the full text of American State Papers (1789-1838), Statutes at Large (1789-1875), Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-179, and a wealth of other resources.
- Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909. Congressional: To Close of Sixtieth Congress; Departmental: To End of Calendar Year 1909. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1911.
Reference Extension GP 3.2:C 41/2
Also available online from the Internet Archive.
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774 - March 4, 1881. Comp. Benjamin Perley Poore. Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1885.
Online:
Print: shelved in Government Documents Office [fragile condition]; ask at the Reference Desk.
- ProQuest Congressional
Indexes Congressional documents and includes the full text of:
Note: many of the early records and statutes are available full-text through A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (for a full description, see above) and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (see above). The Davidson College Library also has print copies of American State Papers (1789-1838) and the Annals of Congress (1789-1824).
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an exclamation point !
- Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
- Wildcard: use an asterisk *
- Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1913-1995
Reference Extension GP 3.8
Lists government documents cataloged by the Government Printing Office (GPO). Each volume is arranged by departments and agencies, with a subject index. Use in conjunction with:
- Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, 1900-1971. Comp. William Buchanan and Edna Kanely. 15 vols. Washington, DC: Carrollton Press, 1973-1975.
Reference Extension [shelved adjacent to the ITS computers in SE corner of the main floor]
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Includes the public papers of presidents from Hoover to the present. The papers of Franklin Delano Roosevelt were published privately but are shelved with our print copies of the Public Papers.
- Official publications of the Public Papers
- Online [official publication]
- Paper [official publications]: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Government Information Stacks GS 4.113
- Unofficial publications and reproductions of the Public Papers
- American Presidency Project, from the University of California at Santa Barbara
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, from the University of Michigan Digital Library
Provides digital facsimiles of the volumes for the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations.
- Other Examples of Primary Sources
- American Memory, from the Library of Congress
Contains a wealth of primary source material for American history, including:
- Documenting the American South, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
(c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes iPOLL, a database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more.
Secondary Sources
See also the bibliographies listed in the background information section, above.
Books | Articles
- Books
- Davidson Library WorldCat
Lists the books, journals, magazines, newspapers, government documents, and videos in our library and in libraries worldwide; also includes some article citations.
Tip: For the Boolean operator "Not" use -
- ebrary
A collection of over 70,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
- WorldCat Classic
Lists books, videos, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. You can submit an interlibrary loan request to borrow books that aren't available at Davidson.
- Identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
- Articles
Starting Points | Core Databases for History | Other Article Databases
Starting Points
- Academic Search Complete
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
Core Databases for History
- America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Other Article Databases
- Environmental Abstracts
(1975 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to environmental issues, impacts, laws, policies, and technologies, including biodiversity, energy, land use, pollution, population studies, resource management, sustainable development, and more. Covers over 950 journals.
- Environment Complete
Covers agriculture, ecology, energy, natural resources, geography, pollution, environmental law, public policy, ubran planning, and related environmental topics.
- Essay & General Literature Index
(1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all humanities subjects, including history, classics, art, archeology, literature, philosophy, and religion.
- JSTOR
A collection of the back issues of over 1,200 electronic journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Tip: truncation symbol: +
- PAIS International
(1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
- Project Muse
A collection of over 400 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Social Sciences Abstracts
(1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
- Sociological Abstracts
(1963 to present) indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.
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