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Welcome to the HST 4979 A -- Senior Seminar/Progressive Era -- Research Guide.
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Potential Progressive Era Resources
- Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraUse the tabs across the top of the page to navigate this website.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930From Harvard University, digital images of 10 books written by Jacob Riis with related primary texts on tenements, immigration, and poverty.
General Online Reference Sources
- Credo This link opens in a new windowCredo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowThis is the Global History Collection which includes 34 titles including Cambridge World History, The Cambridge History of the Second World War, Cambridge History of Capitalism, Cambridge History of the Cold War and more.
- Encyclopedia of American Studies This link opens in a new windowA wide range of disciplines related history and culture of the United States
- Gale E-Books This link opens in a new windowE-reference books, biographies on musicians, scientist, contemporary black biography, sport management, business plans and more.
Primary Source/Background Information
There are literally hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, and atlases that will provide you with background information on historical subjects. The following books will give you broad historical information. REF. in front of a call number indicates that the book is housed in Belk Library's reference collection on the first floor.
American Decades Primary Sources 1900-1999Call Number: Electronic ResourceISBN: 0787665959Publication Date: 2004Primary papers from 1900 - 1999
Twentieth-century America : a primary source collection from the Associated PressCall Number: REF. 973.921 T918as v.7, v. 8ISBN: 0717274942Publication Date: 1995
