A Pathfinder for American History and Culture
(1700-1920)
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RESEARCH THEMES
Clash of Cultures
Industrialization
Scientific Discovery
Media and Technology
The “Frontier” and the
Environment
Constitution & Slavery
James Watt
Photography
Louisiana Purchase
Native Americans &
European Expansion
American
Inventors
Early Cinema
National Parks
CLASH OF CULTURES
U.S. Constitution and the inclusion of slavery (click here to go back to main menu)
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A Roadmap to the United States Constitution http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/creation/index.html
Cartwright, Rita Cantos, H. Victor Condé "HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES." Human Rights in the
United States: A Dictionary and Documents. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781576073964#.(ABCCLIO EBook; login and password required)
Constitution Party of Pennsylvania http://www.constitutionpartypa.com/u_s__constitution.htm
ConstitutionFacts.com http://www.constitutionfacts.com/
Friends of United States Freedom Documents
http://www.linecamp.com/merchants/freedom_documents/commentary_us_constitution/creating_constitution.html
Gettysburg Flag Works http://www.gettysburgflag.com/TheCreationUSConstitution.php
History of the United States Constitution, University of Phoenix
http://www.phoenix.edu/information/constitutorial/history.html
Land Rich, Labor Poor: Colonial America and Slavery by Colette Georgii (web article)
Library of Congress U.S. Constitution Archives
Mustard, David B. "Contents." Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781576075784# (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
National Archives
Rodriguez, Junius P. Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia: (ABC-CLIO
EBook; login and password required)
Sage History http://www.sagehistory.net/constitution/constitutionalconv.htm
Slavery and Abolition in the United States, Dickinson College Archives
Slavery and the Making of America (PBS website and video link)
Slavery in the United States by Jenny B. Wahl (Economic History Services)
The Charters of Freedom http://archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
The Creation of the United States Constitution University of Missouri – Kansas City
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/conhist.html
The Library of Congress:http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.html
The Slave Heritage Resource Center (website)
Thisnation.com http://www.thisnation.com/constitution.html
U.S. Constitution Online http://www.usconstitution.net/constteach.html
Vile, John R. "CONTENTS." Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending
Issues, 1789-2002. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781851094332#.(ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password
required)
Vile, John R. "Contents.The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's
Founding. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Vile, John R. "Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789–
1995." Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues. (ABC-CLIO
EBook; login and password required)
Indigenous North Americans and European Expansion (click here to go back to main menu)
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Archiving Early America (website)
Spain in America by Edward Gaylord Bourne (EBook)
Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America (website)
Smallpox and Native America by KB Patterson and T. Roudge (medical article)
Lord Amherst’s letters regarding biological warfare against Native Americans
How Spanish conquistadors changed Central America by W.D, Atkins (web article)
Keenan, Jerry "Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars." Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars: 1492-1890.
http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781576073971#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required).
8. Francis, John Michael "Iberia and the Americas." Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and
History.http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781851094264#.(ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
9. Zeman, Scott C. "Contents." Chronology of the American West: From 23,000 B.C.E. through the Twentieth Century.
http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781576077603#.(ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
10. Golson, J. Geoffrey, Rodney P. Carlisle "TURNING POINTS—ACTUAL AND ALTERNATE HISTORIES." Turning
PointsóActual and Alternate Histories: Native America from Prehistory to First Contact. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781851098309#.(ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
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James Watt and the Steam Engine (click here to go back to main menu)
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Record of the Steam Engine: http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/carnegie/ch8.html
How Steam Engines Work: http://www.howstuffworks.com/steam.htm
James Burke’s Connections (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhqspinggw8.
Industrial Revolution: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
The Scientifc Revolution: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/.
The Day the World Took Off (video series) http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270
National Science Museum, UK: http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/
The Newcomen Society for the study of the history of engineering and technology:
http://www.newcomen.com/excerpts/watt.htm.
9. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=7177.
10. The Invention of the Steam Engine: http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventors/a/james_watt.htm.
11. British Journal for the History of Science (JSTOR magazine; login required)
12. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London (JSTOR magazine; login required)
American Inventions 19th and 20th century (click here to go back to main menu)
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They Made America (PBS series): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/.
Scientific American Magazine http://www.scientificamerican.com/
Science & Society http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10305593
American Inventor Online http://www.americaninventoronline.com/jwtinvent100.html
Inventions – 19th century timeline: http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Nineteenth.htm.
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, Kevin Hillstrom "Industrial Revolution in America: COMMUNICATIONS." The Industrial
Revolution in America: Communications, Agriculture and Meatpacking. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781851097241#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Burns, William E. "Contents." Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781576078877#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Hillstrom, Kevin , Laurie Collier Hillstrom "Industrial Revolution in America: AUTOMOBILES." The Industrial
Revolution in America: Automobiles, Mining and Petroleum, Textiles. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781851097548#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, Kevin Hillstrom "Industrial Revolution in America: IRON and STEEL." The Industrial
Revolution in America: Iron and Steel, Railroads, Steam Shipping. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781851096251#.
(ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Larsen, Jeffrey , James J. Wirtz, Eric A. Croddy "Volume I: Contents." Weapons of Mass Destruction: An
Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781851094950#.
(ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Mauroni, Al "Contents." Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Reference Handbook. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781851094875#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Willbanks, James H. "Contents." Machine Guns: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781851094851#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required)
Science, Technology and Human Values (JSTOR magazine; login required)
The Social Studies of Science (JSTOR magazine; login required)
Technology and Culture (JSTOR magazine; login required)
MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
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19th century America photography (click here to go back to main menu)
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19th century photography (web index)
World History of Photography (EBook):
Every Picture has a Story (Smithsonian exhibition)
George Eastman Photography Collection (Museum)
The History of the Discovery of Cinematography (EBook)
The American Civil War Photo Gallery
Americans at War: http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/.
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Civil War Collection at Gettysburg
Smithsonian Photography Initiative
Cull, Nicholas J., David Welch, David H. Culbert "Contributors." Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical
Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781576074343#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login
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Heidler, David S., Jeanne T. Heidler "Encyclopedia of the American Civil War." Encyclopedia of the American Civil
War: A Political, Social, and Military History. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781576073827#.(ABC-CLIO
EBook; login and password required).
Smithsonian Studies in American Art (JSTOR magazine; login required)
J. Paul Getty Museum Journal (JSTOR magazine; login required)
American Art Journal (JSTOR magazine; login required)
Early Cinema (click here to go back to main menu)
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Early Cinema.com
Silent Era Film Archive
Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema
Film History and Film Making (UC Berkley)
Moving Image Collections
Silent Film Sources
Film History magazine (JSTOR magazine; login required)
Film Quarterly magazine (JSTOR magazine; login required)
Cinema Journal magazine (JSTOR magazine; login required)
Niemi, Robert "Contents." History in the Media: Film and Television. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/?isbn=9781576079539#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required).
THE “FRONTIER” AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Louisiana Purchase (click here to go back to main menu)
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Text of Louisiana Purchase: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/louistxt.html
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National Parks Service:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/lewisclark2/circa1804/heritage/LouisianaPurchase/LouisianaPurchase.htm.
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Jefferson Museum at Monticello: http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/louisiana.html
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The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/
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America’s West: http://www.americanwest.com/.
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University of Virginia Center for American Studies: http://xroads.virginia.edu/.
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Carlisle, Rodney P., J. Geoffrey Golson "TURNING POINTS—ACTUAL AND ALTERNATE HISTORIES." Turning
PointsóActual and Alternate Histories: Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America.
http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781851098347#.
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Presidential Studies Quarterly (JSTOR magazine; login required)
9. Louisiana History Magazine (JSTOR magazine; login required)
10. Rodriguez, Junius P. "Contents." The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia.
http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781576077382#. Marshall, Bill "CONTENTS." France and the Americas: Culture,
Politics, and History. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781851094165. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and
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11. Marshall, Bill "CONTENTS." France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. http://ebooks.abcclio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781851094165. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required).
National Parks System (click here to go back to main menu)
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National Parks Service: http://www.nps.gov/index.htm.
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History of National Parks Service: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/hisnps/NPSHistory/timeline.htm.
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NPS Digital Archives (photo bank): http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/index.html.
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (a film by Ken Burns): http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/.
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Evolution of the American Conservation Movement: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html.
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Science magazine (JSTOR magazine; login required)
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Environmental Review magazine (JSTOR magazine; login required)
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Journal of Forest History (JSTOR magazine; login required)
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Becher, Anne "American Environmental Leaders." American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the
Present. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/?isbn=9781576073858#. (ABC-CLIO EBook; login and password required).
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