American Political History On-Line

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

online at http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/pol-gl.htm


    1. Searches/ General 2. Colonial 3. Revolution-Constitution
    4. Washington-Adams 5. Jefferson- JQ Adams 6. Jackson to Polk
    7. Taylor-Buchanan 8. Lincoln 9. Reconstruction: Johnson-Grant
    10. Gilded Age: Hayes-McKinley 11. Progressive Era: TR-Taft 12. Prohibition, Labor, Immigration, Race, Gender
    13. Progressive Era: WIlson 14. Harding-Coolidge-Hoover 15. FDR
    16. Truman-Eisenhower 17. Kennedy-Carter 18. Reagan-Bush II
    19. Cartoons, Graphics, Photos 20. Full Text Books, Newspapers, Magazines send suggestions to RJensen@uic.edu
  1. General

  2. Colonial

  3. Revolution-Constitution

  4. Washington-Adams

  5. Jefferson to J Q Adams

  6. Jackson to Polk

  7. Taylor-Buchanan

  8. Lincoln

  9. Reconstruction

  10. Gilded Age: Hayes to McKinley

  11. Progressive Era: TR-Taft
  12. Prohibition, Labor, Immigration, Race, Gender

  13. Progressive Era: Wilson

  14. Harding-Coolidge-Hoover

  15. Franklin Roosevelt

  16. Truman-Eisenhower

  17. Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Ford-Carter

  18. Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush II
  19. Cartoons, Graphics & Photos

  20. Full Text On-Line Books, Newspapers, Magazines
    1. US History recommended
    2. State & Local US History recommended
    3. Time Magazine full text all issues, Jan 1994- present
    4. New York Review of Books full text many issues, 1963- 2002
    5. Library of Congress American Memory Project; many miscellaneous collections
    6. Documenting the American South many full-length Southern books, 19c; major resource
    7. Harper's Weekly many libraries subscribe
    8. 19c periodicals online recommended starting point
    9. America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 vast collection online and searchable of major newspapers; 6 million pages online in 2007 Title listing
    10. Tales of the Early Republic good guide to periodicals
    11. 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.
      1. The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
      2. Century (1881 - 1899)
      3. DeBow's 1846-1869 + 1952 index Major resource for South
      4. Harpers New Monthly Magazine (1850-1899)
      5. Harper's Weekly online and very well indexed 1857-1877; available at 500+ academic libraries; superb illustrations and good political coverage; recommended; note the Weekly is entirely different from the Monthly
      6. Literary Digest excellent summaries of news, editorials & cartoons; unfortunately not on-line
      7. The Nation on-line by subscription, 1865- present
      8. Niles Weekly Register 1811-49 best news coverage of its day; index is available on cd-rom at large university libraries; also subscription service
      9. North American Review (1815 - 1900)
      10. Scribner's Magazine (Nov 1870 - June, 1896)
    12. 19c Books full text is searchable; each page in gif format recommended
    13. 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.



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    revised Jan 29, 2008
    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.