ARTICLES
	Help Finding Articles
	Journal Locator - Help Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals.
Scholarly Articles
	ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) - 1920 to present - Full Text Contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations. ABELL now includes links to the full text of 61 journals.
	America: History & Life - 1953 to present Indexes 1,700 journals, books, and dissertations for material pertaining to American and Canadian history. Other subjects covered include popular culture, anthropology, sociology, economics, education, and politics.
	Historical Abstracts - 1956 to present Covers history after 1450, excluding U.S. and Canada; lists articles, books, collections, and dissertations.
	Humanities International Index Includes data from American Humanities Index plus international journals, books and reference works. Provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
	Social Sciences Abstracts - 1983 to present Some full text. Abstracts of articles from over 550 sources in the social sciences. Includes articles, interviews, obituaries, biographies, and book reviews on anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, geography, and sociology.
	Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) - 1802 to 1995 - Full Text Full text archive of hundreds of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. For complete indexing use the Periodicals Index Online.
	Periodicals Index Online (PIO) - 1665-1995 Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Full text of selected titles can be found in the Periodicals Archive Online database.
Popular Articles
	Readers' Guide Retrospective - 1890-1983 A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflecting the history of 20th century America.
	American Periodical Series (APS) - 1740 - 1900 - Full Text More than 1,000 titles including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.
	Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) - 1802 to 1995 - Full Text Full text archive of hundreds of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. For complete indexing use the Periodicals Index Online.
	Periodicals Index Online (PIO) - 1665-1995 Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Full text of selected titles can be found in the Periodicals Archive Online database.

BOOKS AND MEDIA
	Help Finding Books
	African American Song Contains a diverse range of genres - jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, narratives, sacred music, etc. Currently contains tracks up to the 1950s.
	Moodle/E-Reserves Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more.
Library Catalogs
	Five College Library Catalog - Help Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst.
	WorldCat - all dates OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records.
Book Purchases and Reviews
	Book Review Digest - 1983 to present Reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books from periodicals published in the U. S., Canada, and Great Britain. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication.
	Book Review Digest Retrospective - 1905-1982 Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
	Books in Print - 1979 to present Includes information on scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books covering all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. Includes titles declared out-of-print from July 1979 to the present.

NEWS
US Newspapers
	America's Historical Newspapers - 1690 - 1922 - Full Text Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, based largely on Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers and its successors.
	Boston Globe Historical - 1872 - 1924 - Full Text Full text, including images.
	Chicago Defender Historical - 1905 - 1975 - Full Text Complete archive of digitized articles, editorial cartoons, photographs, advertisements, etc. from this nationally significant African-American newspaper.
	Chicago Tribune Historical - 1849 - 1986 - Full Text Full text, including images.
	Los Angeles Times Historical - 1881-1986 - Full Text - Help Full text, including images of the Los Angeles Daily Times (1881-1886) and the Los Angeles Times (1886-1986).
	New York Times Historical - 1851-2002 - Full Text Full text, including images, of the New York Times up to 2002.
	Washington Post Historical - 1877 to 1991 - Full Text Full text of articles from the Washington Post up to 1991.

REFERENCE TOOLS
	Blackwell Reference Online - Full Text Includes almost 300 titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion.
Biographical Sources
	American National Biography - Full Text Reliable scholarly biographies of major figures in American history.
Statistics
	American Factfinder Population, housing, economic and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau, including quick tables and search capabilities for all available tables from 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses, the latest Economic Census, and reference maps.
	Historical Statistics of the United States - 1531 - 2000 - Full Text Covers population, work & welfare, the economy, and government. Data may be downloaded and custom tables created. Essays address the quantitative history of each subject, with advice on data reliability and references to secondary literature.
Style Manuals
	Citation Guides & Style Manuals

INTERNET RESOURCES
	American Memory Primary source materials relating to U.S. history and culture; includes 7 million digitized items from over 100 historical collections.
	American Song - 1700s - 1960 - Full Text Streaming audio, including songs by and about miners, native Americans, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers & cowboys. Genres include country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, blues, gospel & shape note singing. Liner notes are included.
	Early American Imprints (Evans Digital) - 1639 - 1800 - Full Text Will contain over 36,000 items listed in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's supplement to the bibliography. Covers early American publishing, including agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, and religion.
	Early American Imprints (Shaw-Shoemaker) - 1801 - 1819 - Full Text Will contain the 36,000 primary source items listed in Shaw & Shoemaker's continuation of Evans' American Bibliography, including books, pamphlets, and broadsides. Covers every aspect of American life during the first 19 years of the 19th century.
	Gerritsen Collection - 1543 -1945 - Full Text An international collection of books, pamphlets & periodicals relating to feminism & the women’s rights movement. Allows users to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country or the impact of one country's movement on those of the others.
	Women and Social Movements - Full Text An online resource of primary source documents covering women's social movements from 1600 to 2000.
	Women Working: 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library) Fully-digitized versions of books, manuscripts, pamphlets, consumer trade catalogs and photographs exploring women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
	American Broadsides and Ephemera - 1760 - 1900 - Full Text Facsimiles of 18th and 19th century broadsides & ephemera, including accounts of the Civil War, government proclamations, town meeting reports, trade cards, theater & music programs, menus, and invitations documenting civic & private events.
	Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina) A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
	Hypertexts at the University of Virginia
	Making of America (University of Michigan) A digital library of primary sources in 19th century American social history; includes books as well as articles from 19th century magazines and reveiws.

RELATED SMITH WEB SITES
	American Studies Program
	Sophia Smith Collection Women's and family papers, archives of organizations, women's periodicals, photographs, posters, other one-of-a-kind documents related to women; especially strong in 19th & 20th century US reform movements and feminism.

LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
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	Older American Studies Class Guides Archived class guides may not be up-to-date. Please ask a Librarian for assistance if you encounter broken links.

HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN
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