These reference sources will provide background information on topics, events, places, and persons. Many will give a bibliography of recommended books and articles for further research.
Covers: 3000 B.C.E. -. Provides signed articles drawn from key Oxford reference sources, including:
African American National Biography, Africana, an encyclopedia of the African and African American experience in five volumes, The Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, and Black Women in America.
A series of selective, discipline-focused, online guides to the essential literature in subjects in the humanities and social sciences, as identified by editors and editorial boards selected by the Oxford University Press. Individual guides are updated quarterly, with 50-75 entries added per year to each subject area, as well as revisions to existing entries; entries provides synoptic, bibliographic guide to the key literature and most useful online resources in given area of research.
Covers: 1980-.Offers the full text of reference sources in all disciplines. Users can search for specific words or concepts or browse by subject area. Special tools include a concept map that charts the occurrences of search and related terms across the collection and an image search. Topic pages covering people, places, events, or ideas pull together information from across several different reference sources.
Provides biographical sketches for deceased persons who have contributed to the history of the United States. Biographies have been contributed by leading scholars and include bibliographies listing additional secondary sources as well as noting the location of manuscript collections.
Covers: 1789- .An online research tool designed to provide access to current and historical census data, election results, and demographic information. It covers US census and electoral history - at the county level - from 1790 to 2010, as well as more recent data from the American Community Survey , the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS), and carbon emissions data.
Covers 1789-2000. Offers the fully-searchable tables from the five-volume reference work covering demographic, economic, social, and cultural statistics drawn form both U.S. government publications as well as other publications. Users may download tables in Excel or CSV formats and create tables with data merged from multiple sources.
Provides access to the digitized censuses of agriculture, 1840-1950
Historical Statistics of Black America.
2v. Detroit: Gale, 1995. Ref E 185 .H543 1995. Mainly offers statistics in the postbellum period but has a section on slavery and economics: slave population by state, prices, etc.
