Library American Studies/English 350

• Oxford English Dictionary
  Key dictionary of English language on historical principles.
• Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography
  Six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World, published between 1887 and 1889; note that it was later discovered to have dozens of fictitious profiles.
• Dictionary of American Biography (1872)
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  Definitive reference work for Canadian lives throughout history; in English and French.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  The national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide.
• Historical Statistics of the United States
  Standard source for quantitative information about the U.S., updated and includes 37,000 data series.
• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• America, History & Life (1964 to present)
  Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
• Historical Maps of the United States
  From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at UT-Austin; includes sections for early inhabitants, exploration and settlement, territorial growth, and military history.

Xwi7xwa Library (UBC) First Nations and Indigenous Studies Guide on Terminology

National Indian Law Library's Guide to Federally Recognized Tribes

Markowitz, Harvey, and Carole A. Barrett, eds. American Indian Biographies. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press, 2005. [catalog record] Frost Reference / E89 .A46 2005

Pencak, William. Historical Dictionary of Colonial America. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2011. [catalog record] Frost Reference / E188 .P45 2011

Finkelman, Paul. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States, 1754-1829. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons , 2006. [catalog record] Frost Reference / E301 .E53 2006

Native American Records in the National Archives

• Ancestry Library Edition
  Access to more than 1.2 billion names, primary source documents, census records, and images and a variety of genealogical and historical research features.
• America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1980)
  Searchable archive of American newspapers including Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) and Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).
• Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
  Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans.
• Newberry Library's Digital Edward E. Ayer Collection
  A selection of more than 65,000 digitized images and texts from the Ayer materials on early contacts between native Americans and Europeans, including maps, manuscripts, and printed texts.
• North American Indian Thought and Culture
  Provides access to autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files that were previously unpublished. It includes fifty-four volumes from the 18th and 19th centuries with many prominent writers and nations covered in depth, in addition to photographs from Edward Curtis.
• Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
  2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States.