The library consistently acquires antiquarian, ephemeral and out of print publications in all areas of U.S. history. The following list is a sampling of recently added titles:
Bunn, Matthew, b. 1772? A journal of the adventures of Matthew Bunn. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1962. "First published at Providence Rhode Island, in 1796; A facsimile of the copy in the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library."
Nutting, William Washburn, 1884-1924. Western world guide and hand-book of useful information. Chicago: Western World, [1885].
Smith, Franklin Webster. Hand book of the Pompeia: a grand Roman house. Saratoga Springs: Press of E.P. Howe and Son, 1894.
Willis, Bryan. Timber: a living newspaper about deforestation & reforestation / adopted by Bryan Willis; originally written for the Federal Theatre Project by Burke Ormsby & Myrtly Mary Moss; music & lyrics by Edd Key. Seattle, Wash.: Rain City Projects, 1991.
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909. The desert and the promised land: a sermon. Hartford: L.E. Hunt, 1863.
Hovey, George Rice, 1860-1943. Baptist home mission schools for negroes.
New York: The American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1926.
Buck, Lucy Rebecca, 1842-1918. Sad earth, sweet heaven; the diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck during the War Between the States, Front Royal, Virginia, December 25, 1861-April 15, 1865. Birmingham, Ala., Cornerstone [1973].
Louisiana Historical Association. Calendar of the Jefferson Davis postwar manuscripts in the Louisiana Historical Association collection, Confederate Memorial Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana. [New Orleans] 1943.
Garfield Monument Association of the Pacific Coast. History of the monument: with the address at the unveiling. [San Francisco]: The Association, [1885].
Wareing, Ernest Clyde, 1872-1944. The upward way: a 1866--semi-centennial program--1916. Cincinnati, Ohio: The Freedmen's Aid Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, [1916?].
Lindstrom, Gaell. Thomas Moran in Utah. Logan, Utah: Utah State University, [1984?]
Elliott, Wallace W., 1834-1898? Reproduction of Wallace W. Elliott's History of San Bernardino and San Diego counties, California, with illustrations: including material on present-day Riverside county. Riverside, Calif.: Riverside Museum Press, 1965.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Evidence Explained: citation guide for historical sources
Historians are well-versed in using the Chicago Manual of Style as a guide to citing historical sources. Green Library also holds an additional, valuable guide to citing historical sources, Evidence Explained, by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Containing over 1000 citation models, ranging from civil and religious censuses to wills and probate files, Evidence Explained provides essential citation models for many primary source documents not covered in the Chicago Manual of Style.
Monday, April 13, 2009
New content in Women and Social Movements
Alexander Street Press has recently announced a new release of the database Women and Social Movements in the United States. The new release brings the collection to over 35,000 documents (nearly 150,000 pages of text) and includes a new interface.
Stanford provides access to the Scholar's Edition of Women and Social Movements. New contentincludes:
Two new document projects (for a total of over 90 projects) are included:
How Did Women’s Antislavery Fiction Contribute to Debates about Gender, Slavery, and Abolition, 1828-1856?, by Holly M. Kent.
How Did American and Japanese Gender Hierarchies Shape Japanese Women’s Participation in the Transnational WCTU Movement in the 1880s?, by Rumi Yasutake.
According to the release from Alexander Street Press,
"Owners of the Scholar’s Edition will also gain access to more than 72,000 pages of additional State Commissions on the Status of Women, as well as the fifth volume of the biographical dictionary, Notable American Women , which is now complete.
This release also introduces “document archives,” which bring additional primary source documents to the collection. Like the document projects which have been in the collection all along, document archives are primary source documents organized by topic. The difference is that the archives contain less scholar commentary and more primary source documents, giving historians and their students the opportunity to form their own interpretation of the sources. In other words, the archives present primary sources without the pedagogical apparatus. Each archive is prefaced by just a brief introductory essay, but no abstract or annotated sources (as users will find in the more scholarly document projects).
The first document archive is featured in this release and was assembled by scholar Jana Brubaker. The archive focuses on Elizabeth Glendower Evans, a noted Boston reformer in the first third of the twentieth century. This archive contains 79 documents."
Stanford provides access to the Scholar's Edition of Women and Social Movements. New contentincludes:
Two new document projects (for a total of over 90 projects) are included:
How Did Women’s Antislavery Fiction Contribute to Debates about Gender, Slavery, and Abolition, 1828-1856?, by Holly M. Kent.
How Did American and Japanese Gender Hierarchies Shape Japanese Women’s Participation in the Transnational WCTU Movement in the 1880s?, by Rumi Yasutake.
According to the release from Alexander Street Press,
"Owners of the Scholar’s Edition will also gain access to more than 72,000 pages of additional State Commissions on the Status of Women, as well as the fifth volume of the biographical dictionary, Notable American Women , which is now complete.
This release also introduces “document archives,” which bring additional primary source documents to the collection. Like the document projects which have been in the collection all along, document archives are primary source documents organized by topic. The difference is that the archives contain less scholar commentary and more primary source documents, giving historians and their students the opportunity to form their own interpretation of the sources. In other words, the archives present primary sources without the pedagogical apparatus. Each archive is prefaced by just a brief introductory essay, but no abstract or annotated sources (as users will find in the more scholarly document projects).
The first document archive is featured in this release and was assembled by scholar Jana Brubaker. The archive focuses on Elizabeth Glendower Evans, a noted Boston reformer in the first third of the twentieth century. This archive contains 79 documents."
New content in America's Historical Newspapers
Readex, publisher of America's Historical Newspapers, a series of databases available to Stanford users, has recently added new content. Here are the new newspaper titles in Series I-V of America's Historical Newspapers, with numbers of issues available and date ranges:
Series I: Times Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, 128 issues, 1/1/1837-6/30/1837.
Series II: Duluth News-Tribune, Duluth, Minnesota, 144 issues, 5/16/1881-10/31/1881.
Series III: Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas, 155 issues, 4/1/1896-9/30/1896.
Series IV: American Sentinel, New York, NY, 54 issues, 1/2/1890-1/29/1891.
Series V: Sedan Lance, Sedan, Kansas, 135 issues, 8/24/1892-4/25/1895.
Series I: Times Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, 128 issues, 1/1/1837-6/30/1837.
Series II: Duluth News-Tribune, Duluth, Minnesota, 144 issues, 5/16/1881-10/31/1881.
Series III: Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas, 155 issues, 4/1/1896-9/30/1896.
Series IV: American Sentinel, New York, NY, 54 issues, 1/2/1890-1/29/1891.
Series V: Sedan Lance, Sedan, Kansas, 135 issues, 8/24/1892-4/25/1895.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: America and West Indies, 1574-1739 now online
The Calendars of State Papers, Colonial: America and the West Indies are a key resource for the study of colonial America. As part of a new subscription to British History Online, a database sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research (UK), American historians now have online access to this valuable primary source. A print volume of this set is also available in the British documents section on W2 in Green Library.
The Calendars of State Papers are summaries of hundreds of thousands of handwritten documents relating to the administration of England, and its foreign relations, in the early modern period. This set, originally published in 40 print volumes, includes more than 44,000 transcripts and extended abstracts from 1574 to 1739 dealing with colonial affairs (drawn from manuscripts at the National Archives-UK). The material covers a wide range of subject areas, including orders and grants from central government to local administration; the slave trade; piracy; agriculture; boundary disputes; reports of conferences with Native Americans; plantations; immigration; land grants; industries such as shipbuilding and fisheries; relations with the French, Spanish, and Dutch, including intercepted letters; trade; privateering; war; and reports of court cases.
The Calendars of State Papers are summaries of hundreds of thousands of handwritten documents relating to the administration of England, and its foreign relations, in the early modern period. This set, originally published in 40 print volumes, includes more than 44,000 transcripts and extended abstracts from 1574 to 1739 dealing with colonial affairs (drawn from manuscripts at the National Archives-UK). The material covers a wide range of subject areas, including orders and grants from central government to local administration; the slave trade; piracy; agriculture; boundary disputes; reports of conferences with Native Americans; plantations; immigration; land grants; industries such as shipbuilding and fisheries; relations with the French, Spanish, and Dutch, including intercepted letters; trade; privateering; war; and reports of court cases.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Hard to Find Resources II: Third Party Presidential Nominating Conventions: Proceedings, Records, etc.
Last fall I offered a blog post describing two microfilm sets that contain proceedings from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. This post looks at a third set that focuses on third parties in U.S. presidential campaigns.
Titled Third Party Presidential Nominating Conventions, Proceedings, Records, etc., and published by Micro 8 Publications in 1973, this 7 reel set contains proceedings, party platforms, addresses, pamphlets and other records of a variety of American third parties, ranging from the Anti-Masonic Party of 1830 to the Socialist Party of 1968.
Arrangement of the material on film from Reel 1 through most of Reel 6 is alphabetical by party name and chronological under each, from the Anti-Masonic Party to the International Workingmen's Association; then follows on Reel 6 the Communist Party (1948-1952, 1968) and the Union Party (1936). The last reel contains miscellaneous pamphlets from a number of parties. The sequence of parties on this reel seems haphazard, but the pamphlets under each generally are arranged alphabetically by author.
The invaluable printed guide (shelved in the IC) lists all items in the sequence in which they appear on the film, and provides for each item the reel number location, date, title, and number of pages. N.B.: None of the items in this collection is individually cataloged. However, the library (and/or the Hoover Library and Archives) may have acquired some of these materials separately in printed editions, and cataloged them for either stacks or Special Collections.
Titled Third Party Presidential Nominating Conventions, Proceedings, Records, etc., and published by Micro 8 Publications in 1973, this 7 reel set contains proceedings, party platforms, addresses, pamphlets and other records of a variety of American third parties, ranging from the Anti-Masonic Party of 1830 to the Socialist Party of 1968.
Arrangement of the material on film from Reel 1 through most of Reel 6 is alphabetical by party name and chronological under each, from the Anti-Masonic Party to the International Workingmen's Association; then follows on Reel 6 the Communist Party (1948-1952, 1968) and the Union Party (1936). The last reel contains miscellaneous pamphlets from a number of parties. The sequence of parties on this reel seems haphazard, but the pamphlets under each generally are arranged alphabetically by author.
The invaluable printed guide (shelved in the IC) lists all items in the sequence in which they appear on the film, and provides for each item the reel number location, date, title, and number of pages. N.B.: None of the items in this collection is individually cataloged. However, the library (and/or the Hoover Library and Archives) may have acquired some of these materials separately in printed editions, and cataloged them for either stacks or Special Collections.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Hard to Find Resources I: Columbia University Oral History Microfiche Collection
Green Library has many rich resources which are still only found in microform formats, whether on microfilm reels or microfiche cards. This is the first in a series of blog posts designed to highlight and hopefully expose some of these resources, many of which can be difficult to locate via SOCRATES.
The Columbia University Oral History Research Office is "the oldest and largest organized oral history program in the world." Founded in 1948, the collection contains over 8,000 taped interviews comprising nearly 1,000,000 pages of transcripts.
While many of the interviews (tapes and transcripts) are available only in the Oral History Collection at Columbia, a microfiche project in the 1970s and 1980s transferred over 1,100 interview typescripts to microfiche cards. Stanford purchased Parts I-V; it is cataloged as Microfiche 58 in SOCRATES. A guide, titled Columbia University Oral History Microfiche Collection: A Cumulative Index to Memoirs in Parts I-V is available on the reference shelves in Media-Microtext; Columbia's Oral History Research Office also has a version (including individuals in Part VI) online.
Importantly, most (with the exception of many interviews in Part IV) of the interviews are not cataloged separately in SOCRATES. Fortunately, the microfiche cards are arranged in alphabetical order (regardless of Series #), making it a bit easier to find a given individual.
For Series I of the collection there is a detailed name and subject index for every page of each memoir. Each citation has an abbreviated name of the memoirist and the page on which the item being discussed appears in the memoir. Unfortunately, such a detailed index was only produced for Part I.
The Columbia University Oral History Research Office is "the oldest and largest organized oral history program in the world." Founded in 1948, the collection contains over 8,000 taped interviews comprising nearly 1,000,000 pages of transcripts.
While many of the interviews (tapes and transcripts) are available only in the Oral History Collection at Columbia, a microfiche project in the 1970s and 1980s transferred over 1,100 interview typescripts to microfiche cards. Stanford purchased Parts I-V; it is cataloged as Microfiche 58 in SOCRATES. A guide, titled Columbia University Oral History Microfiche Collection: A Cumulative Index to Memoirs in Parts I-V is available on the reference shelves in Media-Microtext; Columbia's Oral History Research Office also has a version (including individuals in Part VI) online.
Importantly, most (with the exception of many interviews in Part IV) of the interviews are not cataloged separately in SOCRATES. Fortunately, the microfiche cards are arranged in alphabetical order (regardless of Series #), making it a bit easier to find a given individual.
For Series I of the collection there is a detailed name and subject index for every page of each memoir. Each citation has an abbreviated name of the memoirist and the page on which the item being discussed appears in the memoir. Unfortunately, such a detailed index was only produced for Part I.
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