Subject Guides: History: Finding More Sources

Finding More Sources

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
A collection of documents and scholarship organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S.
Google Scholar
Find an article by its title, and request via Interlibrary Loan/Tipasa if not available in full-text. Lake Forest College patrons should customize Google Scholar if using from off-campus.

The Congressional Record
Link to the catalog entry for the official record of the United States Congress. Full-text available from 1873 to the present.
Oyez
Collection of United States Supreme Court cases including audio of oral arguments when available.

Civil Rights and Social Justice
Direct link to the HeinOnline-hosted collection of government documents, books, and scholarship related to civil rights in the U.S.
Nexis Uni
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Content includes regional and international newspapers, transcripts, company profiles, and SEC filings.
HeinOnline
More than 190 million pages of historical and government documents including the U.S. Reports, the Federal Register, treaties, constitutions, and more.

Social Explorer
Generate maps and reports using census data and demographic information from 1790 to the present.

Access limited to three simultaneous users.
Historical Statistics of the United States
A compendium of statistics about the United States until 1975. Published by Cambridge University.

We have no specific stanza for Historical Statistics of the United States, but the Cambridge Core stanza should be sufficient. This link is below, and is valid for EZproxy if this is the service you use.
https://help.oclc.org/Library_Management/EZproxy/Database_stanzas/Cambridge_Core

Please also try using a another browser, a private browser or clearing your cache and cookies as this may interfere with your proxy access if it is set up abnormally.

You can also try adding a line in the stanza for the direct Historical Statistics of the United States URL below:
https://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSWeb/HSUSEntryServlet
Sanborn Maps
Originally created to help fire insurance companies determine the risks associated with insuring properties, these maps are now useful in charting the development of cities and towns over many years.

American History in Video
Over 2,000 total hours of streaming video content including contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s and early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel.

American History in Video includes hundreds of the documentaries most frequently used in history classrooms, from leading video content producers such as PBS, California Newsreel, Bullfrog Films, Documentary Educational Resources, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, The History Channel®, and others. Featuring dramatic reenactments and engaging analysis from prominent scholars and experts, these documentaries bring history alive for students and give public library patrons hundreds of educational video titles they can enjoy from home. Learn about the Battle of Gettysburg from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson. Understand the scope and legacy of the American Civil War with Ken Burns’ riveting PBS series. Grasp the zeitgeist of an era through PBS’s Summer of Love, Ken Burns' The West, and Africans in America.

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