Jan 2008 by Richard Jensen
Jensen is a scholar with many books and articles; he was professor of history for over 35 years at several schools, including the University of Illinois, Harvard, Michigan, West Point, and Moscow State University. Write him at rjensen@uic.edu
America: History and Life Abstracts of 400,000+ history articles from ABC-CLIO; 1950-present; campus subscription required (check with Librarian) recommended some of the major journals are available online in JSTOR or Project MUSE
JSTOR complete text online of all articles; also includes major journals in political science, economics, demography; free access if your school subscribes. List of JSTOR schools recommended
American Historical Review 1895-1996 recent issues online at History Cooperative;
American Quarterly 1949-1995;
Journal of American History 1964-1996; recent issues online at History Cooperative;
Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1914-1964;
Journal of Economic History 1941-1996;
Journal of Military History 1989-1998;
Military Affairs 1937-1988;
Journal of Negro History 1916-1998;
Journal of Southern History 1935-1996;
Reviews in American History 1973-1994;
William and Mary Quarterly 1892-1996 [coverage to 1820];
also
American Journal of Political Science 1973-2000;
Midwest Journal of Political Science 1957-1972;
American Political Science Review 1906-1998;
Journal of Politics 1939-1998;
Political Science Quarterly 1886-1997
Journal of Political Economy 1892-2000;
For these journals, recent years are online in project Muse see Librarian; (they can be browsed but not searched)
American Jewish History; American Quarterly; Civil War History;
Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Policy History; Radical History Review;
Reviews in American History; Social Science History;
recent issues of these journals are online at History CooperativeAmerican Historical Review; Journal of American History; History Teacher; Law and History Review; Western Historical Quarterly; William and Mary Quarterly
Dissertations International search last two years of PhD dissertation abstracts; option to purchase for $32 each; backlist available through campus library
Biographies
Political Graveyard remarkable biographical guide to 81,000 politicians, living and dead
Making of America Cornell MOA project is putting online the full text of these magazines. The texts are searchable. The project now includes 908,000 pages of text from 267 books and 955 volumes of magazines. recommended
Benjamin Franklin links by R. Jensen and classic short scholarly biography by Carl BeckerFor a modern edition of his major works, see Franklin: Writings The Library of America edition (1987).
1800 Election short essay by leading scholar Joanne Freeman
"The Scholars' Jefferson," by Peter S. Onuf in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 4. (Oct., 1993), pp. 671-699. from JSTOR; Historiography; recommended
Tales of the Early Republic
ambitious collect of texts and encyclopedia entries on Jacksonian Era, by
Hal Morris recommended; good guide to periodicals
Abraham Lincoln, a History (10 vols, 1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay; written by two senior aides to Lincoln; This is the longest and most detailed scholarly history of the war, noted for completeness, clarity, and psycholoical and political insight into the men and challenges Lincoln faced; recommended
"The Enrollment and the Draft," by Nicolay and Hay (1889) Nicolay and Hay were Lincoln's aides during the war, and wrote one of the great histories of the war in their 10 volume biography of Lincoln. Chapters appeared in Century magazine.
Molly Maguires 1909 history by Rhodes plus links and bibliography
"The Chicago Anarchists of 1886," detailed narrative by trial judge Joseph E. Gary, The Century (April 1893) pp. 803-838, with illustrations & excerpts from anarchist writings
Garrow, David J. "The FBI and Martin Luther King" Atlantic Monthly
July/August 2002, 80-88. Newly opened FBI files reveal Stanley Levinson's extensive role in the Communist Party's financial support apparatus and his later role as a key advisor to King.
"The 2004 Presidential Election: The Emergence of a Permanent Majority?" By: Abramson, Paul R.; Aldrich, John H.; Rohde, David W.. Political Science Quarterly, Spring2005, Vol. 120 Issue 1, p33-57,
online at most college libraries (EBSCO host, etc)
Harper's Weekly Recommended
150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912; Reconstruction topics; Chinese exclusion; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766-1876
Elections 1860-1912 as covered by Harper's Weekly; news, editorials, cartoons (many by Thomas Nast)
Making of America Cornell MOA project is putting online the full text of these magazines. The texts are searchable. The project now includes 908,000 pages of text from 267 books and 955 volumes of magazines.
19c Books full text is searchable; each page in gif format recommended
19th century books, full text from MOA at U. Michigan; full text searching; images of pages recommended. Includes 634,000 pages from 4,100 books and magazine volumes.
Copyright (c) 2008. Richard Jensen. This Guide was prepared with support from the National Endowment for Humanities, the Department of Education (TAH-Byrd), the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation, the University of Illinois, RPI, the Gilder-Lehrman Foundation, the Luce Foundation, and the Robert H. Michel Civic Education Grants sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center. Scholars are invited to post the complete Guide to campus WWW sites and distribute it to students.