Databases and Indices
Newspaper Resources
Statistical Resources
Bibliographies and Encyclopedias
World Wide Web
U.S. Government Publications
Selected Primary Resources at Lehigh
Selected Print Resources
ASA, the Lehigh University Online Catalog
Search ASA to locate books, documents, journals, magazines and other materials in the Lehigh Collection.
In searching for materials in the Library catalog, consider using the following keywords in your subject search in
order to find primary materials:
Correspondence
Diaries
Documents
Documentary
Historiography
Memoirs
Papers
Personal narratives
Sources
Also consider limiting your search by date in ASA's "Advanced Search" form. Type in a year or range of years in the box labeled pub year . Examples of pub year limits:
1967 retrieves items published only in that year
1967-1975 retrieves items published between and including the range of years
<1975 retrieves items published before that year
>1967 retrieves items published after that year
Some suggested Subject Headings when searching for materials:
While many of the electronic databases have full-text to articles available, be sure to use the Lehigh Links (SFX) technology to determine if you can get to the electronic full text or if the Lehigh Library has the printed publication available. See this guide "Locating the full text of articles using SFX" for instructions.
America: History and Life . 1964-
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. Covering over 2000 journals, this database is also a valuable source of scholarly book reviews.
Essay and General Literature Index1900-1993 print edition located in storage facility- use storage request form.
Emphasizing the humanities and social sciences, Essay and General Literature Index provides easy access to nearly 45,000 English-language essays in 3,500 collections and anthologies. Subjects covered include history, economics, psychology, religion, political science, folklore, film, music, drama, and literature.
PAIS Archive
Interdisciplinary index to journals, reports, books, government publications. PAIS Archive covers 1936-1976.
This source will be helpful in identifying many of the U.S. government publications and hearings on this topic.
Readers Guide Retrospective - Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. It covers 1890- 1982 and replaces the printed editions of the Nineteenth Century Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and the later Readers Guide to Periodical Literature.
WorldCat
Tthis specialized tool is essentially a catalog of the books, manuscripts, documents , journal holdings and other materials in libraries in the U.S. and internationally.
To reach the entire list of Lehigh Databases go to the Database Finder .
New York Times Historical A full-image archive that includes the entire historical run of The New York Times, the "definitive voice of American journalism since 1851." The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Microform:
All Lehigh microform resources housed in Fairchild Library/ 2nd Floor South Wing
Bethlehem Globe Times (and successor Express Times) Film:1925 - 1997
New York Times Film: 1857-
New York Times Index, FM-1-Index, 1851-
New York Times Obituary Index, FM-1-Index,1858-1978
Pittsburgh Courier Film: 1928-1997
Times (London) Film: 1914 - film
Official Index to the Times (Film: 1937-1955, Paper: FM-1-Index,1957-1997)
Click on the link below to be directed to a guide to the other newspaper collections and indexing tools available in the Lehigh University Libraries.
Newspaper Resources at Lehigh University: Historical Collections and Runs
Historical Statistics of the United States
This new online edition of a classic statistical resource,makes extensive amounts of quantitative data available in downloadable and customizable form. Researchers in the social, behavioral, humanistic and natural sciences who need U.S. statistics on topics as diverse as economics and trade, history, climate, demographics, education, government, finance, law natural resources, business, religion, migration and sociology will find data organized and contextualized by experts in the field. Tables can be viewed in PDF or HTML format. Users can create customized tables, graphs and spreadsheets.
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Kutler, Stanley I., editor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.
FM1 - LindRef 959.704303 E56
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Tucker, Spencer C., editor. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
FM 1- Mini LindermanBooks 959.704303 E561
Vietnam, 1964-1973: An American Dilemma, Colorado Springs: U.S. Airforce Academy Library, 1990.
Special Bibliography Series no. 80. This bibliography consists of a selection of books, journal articles, government publications and technical reports.
Vietnam War Bibliography
This extensive website is a bibliography created by Edwin E. Moise, Professor of History at Clemson University. While it has a heavy focus on military history there is a great deal of useful material cited in this bibliography.
Selected Web sites with Primary Source Material:
Vietnam Project
"In addition to its mission of collecting materials concerning Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and Southeast Asia, the Vietnam Archive currently administers two projects, the Oral History Project and the Virtual Vietnam Archive." The site features oral histories, documents (such as official military records) and photographs. Also includes operations and acronyms databases. Searchable. From Texas Tech University. Note: Some material not available online due to copyright/donor restrictions.
Famous American Trials, The My Lai Courts Martial, 1970
Provides a history of "the massacre by United States soldiers of as many as 500 unarmed civilians — old men, women, children — in My Lai on the morning of March 16,1968 [in Vietnam] ... [and] the cover-up of that massacre." Features a chronology, maps, biographies, essays, opinion polls, discussion questions, images, bibliography, and related links. From a law professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
The FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
Cases from the FBI FOIA Reading Room which have been selected for inclusion at this site. These cases have been placed in categories by type of records and also alphabetically listed.
Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
"This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period." Includes an excerpt from the book "Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle." From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.
Useful Gateways for Historical Materials on the WWW:
American and British History Resources on the Internet -
Extensive links to history resources in many categories: Reference Resources (maps,
statistics, documents, treaties, electric journals, etc.); History Gateways and Text Sites,
including sites by subject or by period; Titles by Historic Period; Archival and MSS.
Guides; Other Net Resources (history listservs, associations, societies, and directories). From the
Rutgers University Libraries
History Matters
Serves as a gateway to history materials on the web. Database is searchable by keyword.
.Rhodes- History Resources
http://www.rhodes.edu/Histhtmls/histnet.html
WWW - Virtual Library: History
http://gpweb.us/VLColdWarIndex.htm
Senate or House Documents or Reports - U.S. Serial Set. Pre-1932 volumes housed in the Library's Remote Storage collection. Others in FM-2-DOC Government Documents Collection. Consult Documents Librarian (Roseann Bowerman) or Documents Coordinator (Stephan Firtko) to retrieve materials in storage.
"The US Serial Set may be the single most valuable collection of American historical documents in existence. Few, if any, research collections compare with it in size, time span, subject variety, source authority and diversity, or relevance to modern studies of yesterday's activities and attitudes. The Serial Set includes: congressional publications, such as committee reports on public and private legislation, House and Senate journals, numerous investigations, directories, rule manuals, and histories of Congress and the Capitol; executive branch publications, including department and agency annual reports and special recurring publications; and nongovernmental publications, including reprints from magazines, newspapers, professional journals, and other sources."
Indexing:
CIS U.S. Serial Set Index - covering 1789-1969 015.73 C749c FM-2-DOC-R
CIS Index to publications of the United States Congress -1970- 015.73 C749i FM-2-DOC-R
To identify and locate reports and publications published after 1970, an excellent electronic database is Lexis Nexis Congressional.
Congressional Hearings
Lehigh's hearing collection is spotty prior to 1960. After that the collection is very extensive. Located in in Superintendent of Documents classification scheme under "Y4.." in Government Documents Department.
CIS Congressional Committee Hearings Index - 1833-1969 348.731 C579 FM-2-DOC-R
CIS Index to publications of the United States Congress -1970- 015.73 C749i FM-2-DOC-R
Congressional Record 1873- Microform and Paper copies 328.732 C74r FM-3-South
General Indexing to Government Documents of this period:
Some of the U.S.government publications held by Lehigh's libraries for the period of 1950's - 1970's would have been cataloged and added to the regular collection at time of receipt. You can identify others using the following indexes and find them in the Lehigh Government Documents Collection or if necessary obtain them through interlibrary loan.
Lehigh University. Brown and White.
1894- Copies in both the Microfilm Collection and the Linderman Special Collections Department.
The Presidential Papers (CD ROM)
FM-Reserve 353.03 U58pa CD Rom
FM-1-Ref 353.03 U58pa Printed guide
Contains public papers of Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton.
The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. (including Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon)
FM-3-North 353.03 U58p
The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature.
General editor, Mary Beth Norton ; associate editor, Pamela Gerardi. 016.9 A512 1995 - Linderman Reference
Guides to archives and manuscript collections in the United States: an annotated bibliography. Compiled by Donald L. DeWitt. Greenwood Press, 1994 L-REF 973.016 D522g
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections Linderman Reference 016.091 N277
The 26 printed volumes of this work provide descriptions of approximately 72,300 collections located in 1406 different repositories with approximately 1,085,000 index references to topical subjects and personal, family, corporate, and geographic names. These volumes were printed from 1959 to 1993. Since that time the catalog has been continued as an online product which can be accessed from the Library of Congress NUCMC website:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc
National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States: Federal Records, Index 1985.
Compiled by Victoria Agee, et.al. Chadwyck-Healy Inc, 1985. L-REF 081 N277f
National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Index 1983. Compiled by Victoria Agee. Chadwyck-Healy Inc, 1983. L-REF 081 N277m
Researcher's guide to archives and regional history sources / edited by John C. Larsen. Hamden, Conn. : Library Professional Publications, 1988. L-REF 973.072 R432
Revised: September 2006
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