Searching ASA
Early American Imprints
Additional Primary Sources
Databases
Locating Manuscript Collections
Web Gateways
Contact Information
A method for searching for a significant number of the primary source
collections about the 17th century American colonial period would be to
conduct a Keyword/ Subject heading search looking for the following
terms:
(Colony) History Sources
or
Archives (Colony)
eg: Pennsylvania History Sources
or Virginia History Sources
eg: Archives Pennsylvania
or Archives Virginia
A search of this nature should retrieve the colonial or provincial records in our collection as well as a number of other primary resources. If you carefully observe the subject headings assigned to some of the more relevant works you can hyper-link within the catalog to other materials with the same subject headings.
Early American Imprints
As you conduct searches in our online catalog for materials from the
17th century you will inevitably come across records to the vast Evans
microfiche collection of Early American Imprints. These are part of "two
distinct microfiche collections reproducing every existent book, pamphlet
and broadside published in America from 1639 through 1800 (Early American
Imprints. Series I, Evans) and from 1801 to 1819 (Early American
Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker). These are the complete non-serial
source materials of American history for the 17th and 18th centuries."
Our collection which is limited to Series I, is on microfiche, is
completely cataloged and accessible through ASA, and is an expansive
source of primary materials. These works contain " information about every
aspect of life in 17th and 18th century America, from agriculture
and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion,
the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other
topic imaginable."
The Series I collection is based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography and the Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography by Roger Bristol. The print copies of these bibliographies are available in the Library:
Charles Evans . American Bibliography a chronological
dictionary of all books, pamphlets, and periodical publications printed
in theUnited States of America from the genesis of printing in 1639 down
to and including the year 1820. With
bibliographical and biographical notes. 14 vols. 015.73 E92a
. (The volumes are located in the Microfiche area, on the cabinets above
the Evans, Early American Imprints Fiche Collection.)
Roger Bristol. Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. 015.73 E92ab (Linderman Library - Reference Area)
Colonial & early U.S. Newspapers on
Microfilm at the Lehigh Libraries
Refer to this guide to identify and locate colonial newspapers in the
Lehigh collection.
America: History and Life.
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.
Book
Review Digest
This database Cites and excerpts reviews of current English-language
fiction and nonfiction books.
Covers periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great
Britain 1984-
print edition in L-1-Index, 1916-1993
Dissertation Abstracts
International 1861- (Indexing) 1980- (Abstracts)
The Lehigh Guide to Finding
Dissertations and Theses describes the coverage of Dissertation Abstracts,
how to locate Lehigh Dissertations and the various methods you can use
to obtain Dissertations through Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery or
online delivery. How
to Use Digital Dissertations describes the process for downloading
digital dissertations or ordering copies for a fee.
Historical Abstracts.
This database provides indexing to the journal literature on the history
of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and
Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life)
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 .
search ASA for the subject - Manuscripts United States Catalogs
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
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
Other web portals to manuscript and archive site:
Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
Ready, Net, Go: Archival Internet Resources
Repositories of Primary Sources
Useful Gateways for Historical Materials on the WWW:
InfoDome: Lehigh University's Scholarly Web Resource collection- History
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
Research guide created: August 2001