Databases and Indices
Periodicals of the 30's and 40's at Lehigh
Newspaper Resources
World Wide Web
U.S. Government Publications
Selected Primary Resources at Lehigh
Selected Print Resources
Books on Reserve at Fairchild Library

Selected Databases and Indices for Historical Research

ASA, the Lehigh University Online Catalog
Search ASA to locate books, documents, journals, magazines and other materials in the Lehigh Collection.

The following  tools are generally useful for finding articles in scholarly journals and other secondary sources, however some Primary Source Material may also be uncovered. Path to entire list of  electronic databases: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inref/databases/index.html

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.

Biography Index/Abstracts 1984-
     print edition in L-1-Index, 1946-

Essay and General Literature Index 1900-1993   print edition only. L-1-Index.
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.

International Index to Periodicals. 1907-1964 print edition only. L-1-Index
Originally published as a supplement to the Readers Guide, this author/subject index covers a selected list of periodicals with a more scholarly focus than those popular magazines covered in the RG.

Readers Guide     Print edition in L-1-Index, 1900- 1992 ( see below for a list of periodicals dating from the 1930's and 1940's owned by the Lehigh Libraries)

WorldCat
Not an index to articles in journals, this specialized tool is essentially a catalog of the books, manuscripts, documents , journal holdings and other materials in libraries in  the U.S. and internationally. Materials in these collections can date back to 1200 .

Periodicals with coverage during the 1930's and early 1940's available at Lehigh Libraries.
(Focus on popular culture/business or politics)
 

Title	Format	Location	Call number
American Magazine of Art	Bound (B)	Linderman (Lind)	705 A51  (1931-36)
American Mercury	B	Lind	051 A51
Architectural Record	Film (F)	Fairchild Martindale (FM)
Atlantic Monthly	B	Lind	051 A881
Business Week	F	FM
Fortune	B	FM	650.5 F744
Harper's	B	Lind	051 H293
Life	B	Lind	051 L694 (1936-; vol. 1 in Special collections)
National Geographic	B	Lind	910.5 N27
National Republic	B	Lind	051 N277  (1925-1936)
Nation	F	FM
New Republic	F	FM
Newsweek	F	FM
Reader's Digest	F	FM
Saturday Evening Post	F	FM
Theatre Arts Monthly	B	Lind	792.05 T37  (1924-1939)
Time	F	FM
Vital Speeches of the Day	B	Lind	808.505 V836 (1934-1951)

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)

Selected Web sites with Primary Source Material:

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
The American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized  documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently over 60 collections in the
American Memory Historical Collections.

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.

Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This website provides the transcripts of 30 Fireside chats dating from March 1933 to June 1944.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives
The FDR library is engaged in the effort to digitize key elements of its collection of over 17 million pages of documents, 150,000 photographs, sound recordings, videos and oral history texts.

New Deal Network
"At the core of the NDN (http://newdeal.feri.org) is a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period). Currently there are over 20,000 items in this database, many of them previously accessible only to scholars. Unlike many databases on the Web, which represent the holdings of a particular institution, NDN is drawing from a wide variety of sources around the country to create a theme-based archive."

Project Whistlestop
Project WhistleStop is funded in part by a United States Technology Innovation Challenge Grant
from the U. S. Department of Education. The project enables educators to work with the original
source material of the Harry S Truman Presidential Library; to use technology and primary
sources in project based learning experiences in the classroom; and to develop an on-line resource
of original Truman Library documents, photographs, records, cartoons, and other archival
material for student research projects.

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

 Infodome History Resources page
http://www.lehigh.edu/library/infodome/humanities/history.html

.Rhodes- History Resources
http://www.rhodes.edu/Histhtmls/histnet.html

WWW - Virtual Library: History
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/index.html

AlphaSearch
http://www.calvin.edu/library/as/

Selected U.S. Government Documents

Congressional Publications

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 or Documents Coordinator 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

Catalog of the public documents of the 53rd (through 76th) Congress    015.73 U5c   FM-2-DOC-R
(covers 1893-1940. Use this tool to determine which Serial Set volumes are held in the Lehigh Collection. Look under the "Congressional Publications" section for notations on LU holdings)

CIS Index to publications of the United States Congress -1970-    015.73 C749i FM-2-DOC-R

Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789- 1909,            015.73 U5ch3 FM-2-DOC-R
(use this tool to determine which Serial Set volumes are held in the Lehigh Collection. )
 

Congressional Committee 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.

Indexing:

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
 

U.S. Decennial Census Reports
Located in the Government Documents, Reference Area under call number: 317.3 U58

1920, Fourteenth Census

1930, Fifteenth Census

1940, Sixteenth Census

1950, Census of Population and Housing

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletins     v. 101-644 in remote storage, vol. 645- (1939-) in Gov Docs Stacks under sudoc number L 2.3:
The Bulletins of the U.S. Department of Labor and of the Bureau of Labor Statistics include many of the most penetrating and comprehensive reports made by the United States government on a wide array of issues affecting labor in the United States and around the world.The feature articles cover an extremely wide range of subjects. Timely matters of major political importance are frequently given extended treatment, including workman's compensation, arbitration of labor disputes, major strikes, and the analysis of key industrial sectors.

U.S. Womens Bureau Bulletins  1919-1962 (some gaps)  in Gov Docs Stacks under sudoc number, L 36.102:
These bulletins reported information on working conditions, health, safety, hours, and opportunities for women. Of special note are bulletins issued during World  War II.

General Indexing to Government Documents of this period:
Most of the U.S. publications (with some exceptions for U.S. serial set materials) held by Lehigh's libraries for the period of 1929-1949 would have been cataloged and added to the regular collection at time of receipt. You can identify others using the following indexes and perhaps obtain them through interlibrary loan.

Catalog of the public documents of the 53rd (through 76th) Congress    015.73 U5c   FM-2-DOC-R
1893-1940

Monthly Catalog of U.S. government publications (title varies)    015.73 U5m    FM-2-DOC-R
1936-

Archives of the Work Projects Administration and predecessors: 1933-1943.  (Microfilm 13 reels)  Two part printed guide is on FM reserve under call number  331.137 U5877a.
Includes the final reports of the States programs, and final reports for the Federal Music, Art, Crafts, Museum, Visual Arts, Theatre and Writers programs.

Documentary Archives: multicultural America (CD ROM)
L- Reserve,  973.04 D637 CD Rom
L-0-Lower,  973.04 D637 Printed guide
Using more than 350 pictures and over 400 primary source documents, this CD Rom traces the history of many racial and ethnic groups and their contributions to American culture from prehistory to the present.

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 and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FM-3-North   308 R781p,  vols. 1 - 13

The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States.
FM-3-North  353.03 U58p  1929- 1998

In searching for additional materials in the Library catalog, consider using the following keywords in your subject search in order to find primary materials:
    Diaries
    Memoirs
    Historiography
    Sources
    Personal narratives
    Correspondence

SELECTED PRINT RESOURCES FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH

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

Official Museum Directory 2000. American Association of Museums. National Register Publishing, 1999.
L-REF 069.0578 O32

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

BOOKS ON RESERVE AT FAIRCHILD LIBRARY

GENERAL HISTORIES OF THE 1930S:

Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and the New Deal. 973.92 H658g

Kennedy, David M.  Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945    973.91 K35f

Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940.
973.917 L652f

Parrish, Michael E.   Anxious decades : America in prosperity and depression,
1920-1941.  973.91 P261a

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., The Age of Roosevelt   (3 vols).
 Vol 1-The crisis of the old order, 1919-1933.
 Vol 2- The coming of the New Deal
 Vol 3- The politics of  upheaval.
 973.917 S342a v.1, v. 2, v.3.

Watkins, T. H. (Tom H.] The hungry years : a narrative history of the Great Depression in America .  973.916 W335h

GENERAL HISTORIES OF THE WAR YEARS:

Buchanan, Albert Russell. The United States and World War II. (2 vols) 940.5373 B918u

Burns, James MacGregor.   The crosswinds of freedom    973.92 B967c

Goodwin, Doris Kearns.  No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II    973.91709 G656n

Keegan, John.  The Second World War.     940.53 K261s

O'Neill,  William L. O'Neill.  A democracy at  war : America's fight at home and abroad in World War II  973.91 P261a

Perret, Geoffrey.  Days of sadness, years of triumph; the American people,
1939-1945.  973.917 P455d
 
Spector, Ronald H. Eagle against the sun : the American war with Japan  940.5426 S741e

Prepared by Roseann Bowerman , Social Sciences Librarian
Consulting room in Fairchild Library reference area: every Weds. 1 to 5pm.
Office hours by appointment. Call  x83053 or email rb04@lehigh.edu