Tip
University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library offers a good guide to primary and secondary materials relevant to the Old South.
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/hist/oldsouth.html
Starting points for historical research (print)
- American Historical Association's guide to historical literature / general editor, Mary Beth NortonA great place to start a research project. More than 27,00 annotated citations to publications dating from 1961 to 1992 covering 48 periods in world history.
- History : illustrated search strategy and sources / by Elizabeth Frick.A procedure manual for writing term papers in history. Covers everything from selecting a topic to the mechanics of gathering information from various sources in historical literature.
- Timetables of History : a horizontal linkage of people and events / Bernard GrunChronological tables of the people , places and events that shaped world history.
Recommended Online Sources
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Biographies
- American National Biography OnlineOffers portraits of more than 17,400 deceased men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references and links to select web sites.
- Credo ReferenceHundreds of reference books including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, books of quotations, & subject-specific titles. The History collection includes: Encyclopedia of World History & Marquis Who's Who in the World
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in Print
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) E441 .D53 1997
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Dictionary of American Negro Biography
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) E185.96.L6 1982
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) E185 .E54 1995
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Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) E185.61 .E54 1992
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Encyclopedia of Black America
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) E185.E55
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Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) F209.E53 1989
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Encyclopedia of Southern History
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) F207.7.E52
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Harvard Guide to American History
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) E154.5 .H23 1974
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Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) HT861 .H57 1997
( view catalog record)
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 Anne Krakow |
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