Electronic & Printed Resources
Electronic Journals
Abbey Newsletter
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/an/index.html
Bi-monthly newsletter covering the preservation of library and archival materials, as well as the use of lasting materials in the creation of records. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 1975) through vol. 26, no. 6 (Oct. 2003).
Access History
http://www.uq.edu.au/access_history/
Focuses on questions novice history students face. Published twice a year. Vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 1997) through vol. 3, no. 1 (spring 1999).
American Historical
Review
http://www.historycooperative.org/ahrindex.html
Articles that address spatial, temporal, and thematic dimensions in all fields of history. Includes reviews of books and films relevant to historians. Vol. 104, no. 3 (June 1999) through current issue.
American Philosophical
Society Bulletin
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/bulletin/
Focuses on history and the history of science, while also including articles from any discipline on subjects rooted in the holdings of the American Philosophical Society Library. Vol. 1 (Winter 2001) through current issue.
American Quarterly
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/aq/
Engages issues in American Studies, specifically the
Antiques and the Arts
Weekly
http://antiquesandthearts.com/
Detailed listings of auctions (with photos), a calendar of antiques shows, and coverage of museum and gallery exhibitions, historical society programs, book reviews, and antiques show and auction coverage from around the US. Also presents feature stories on persons, events, and trends.
Canadian Journal of
History
http://www.usask.ca/history/cjh/
General history articles written mostly, although not exclusively, by Canadian scholars. Includes historiographical articles, review articles, and reviews concerning all countries and periods of history. Tables of contents available for vol. 29 (Dec. 1994) through current issue; abstracts available.
The Chronicle of
Higher Education
Online, The Chronicle of Higher Education is published every weekday. It features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.
Common-Place
Features, reviews, and columns on the "ordinary" aspects of American history before 1900, from literature and architecture to politics and parlor manners. Published quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 2000) through current issue.
Cultural Resource
Management
http://www.nps.gov/history/crm/
Examines the philosophies, techniques, and technologies related to the profession of historic preservation. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Feb. 1978) through vol. 25, no. 5 (2002).
The Early
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2000_fall/
Quarterly journal of eighteenth century American history. Contains specialized historical research and commentary as well as stories offering more popular approaches to early American history. Vol. 1, no. 1 (summer 1996) through current issue.
Eighteenth Century
Studies
Archives novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Includes, in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800, along with modern criticism.
Essays in History
http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/
Articles based on primary sources in all fields of history. Vol. 33 (1990-91) through current issue.
The Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/
Articles on the conservation of the visual arts. Vol. 6, no. 1 (fall 1991) through current issue.
The Guild of Bookworkers Newsletter http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/gbwnews.shtml
Guild of Bookworkers news, reports from the chapters, reports of conferences or meetings, supplies offered for sale, publication reviews, and a calendar of events. Appears 6 times a year. No. 96 (Oct. 1994) through current issue.
Inside Smithsonian
Research
http://www.si.edu/opa/insideresearch/
Quarterly newsletter concerning Smithsonian research projects in science, history and the arts. Issue 13 (summer 2006) through current issue.
Journal of American
History
http://www.historycooperative.org/jahindex.html
Quarterly publishes articles and historiographic essays on American history as well as reviews of relevant books, films, exhibitions, and web sites. Aims to place American history in global context. Vol. 84, no. 1 (June 1997) through current issue.
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/conservation/jcms/
Focuses on issues and techniques in conservation, as well as on museum studies and collections care. No. 1 (May 1996) through No. 8 (Nov. 2002).
Journal of the
American Institute for Conservation
Addresses issues of conservation history, philosophy, and method; conservation research, treatment case studies and ethics and standards discussions relating to the fields of conservation and preservation. Includes technical studies aimed at addressing questions in allied fields. Volume 16, 1977 - Volume 44, 2005.
http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/
Articles about antiques and collecting. Includes prices database, lists of shows and auctions, dealer directory, and list of appraisers.
The Material History
of Religion Project
http://www.materialreligion.org/journal.html
Articles on American religion with emphasis on material objects and economic themes. Topics range from the significance of church signs to the use of prayer handkerchiefs in Pentecostal devotion.
National Gallery
Technical Bulletin
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ng/ngtb
Records the research carried out at the National Gallery, covering all aspects of conservation, technical study and care of the paintings in the collection, as well as discussing artists' materials, working practices, and techniques. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1977) through current issue.
Northeast Journal of
Antiques and Art
http://www.northeast-journal.com/
Articles about antiques, art, and collecting. Includes calendar of auctions and shows, historic real estate listings, and antiques for sale.
Perspectives Online: The
Electronic Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association
http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/index.cfm
Articles and commentary on the historical profession: Teaching, computers and software, history in the media, museum exhibitions, and archives and research. Includes listings of employment openings and historical activities, both within and outside academia. Vol. 36, no. 1 (Jan. 1998) through current issue.
The Public Historian
http://caliber.ucpress.net/loi/tph
Publishes the results of scholarly research and case studies, and addresses the broad substantive and theoretical issues in public history. Covers public policy and policy analysis; federal, state, and local history; historic preservation; oral history; museum and historical administration; document
RBM: A Journal of
Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
http://www.rbms.info/publications/index.shtml#rbm
Formerly Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, covers issues pertaining to the world inhabited by special collections libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Back issues online with 3 issue delay.
The history of
Studies in
Bibliography
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/
Articles on bibliography, textual criticism, manuscript study, the history of printing and publishing, as well as on related matters of method and evidence. Vol. 1 (1948-49) through vol. 55 (2002).
Electronic Books, References, and Databases
American
Cabinetmakers Database
Available only to subscribers of Maine Antique Digest. Approximately 36,000 records searchable by maker's name, state, and form of cabinetry or trade.
Archives Directory
for the History of Collecting in
http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/home.php
A database of dealer and collector archives consolidating information about repositories, dealers, collectors, and dealer archives (including dealer photograph archives). This tool provides essential information for scholars working in the fast-growing field of the history of collecting.
Art &
Architecture Thesaurus Online
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is a structured vocabulary currently containing around 131,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials.
Artfact
Requires subscription and login for access to detailed auction records and images. Auction catalog and price database that contains about 100,000 full catalogs with 20 million price results. Provides unabridged auction catalog descriptions, provenance, price results and original price estimates, and available images of all types of objects sold at auction.
The tenth edition of 1919, containing over 11,000 searchable passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. Includes a chronologic index of authors, an alphabetic index of authors, and a concordance index to quotations.
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
Phase I of the digitization of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which is found on this site, covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the newspaper’s years of publication. This period includes all of the years for which there is no index as well as the 11 years during which an index was published. About 147,000 pages of the newspaper are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.
Conservation Online
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
Full text library of conservation information, covering topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.
Current Value of Old Money http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
A compilation of websites that addresses the changes in the
value of money over time. Includes sections on the
Digital Library for
the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/
The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material
Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the
decorative arts, with a particular focus on early
Domestic Interiors
Database
http://www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/didb/index.php
The main focus is on the changing appearance and layout of rooms in a range of domestic buildings, the objects that furnished those rooms and the ways rooms and objects were represented, how people used rooms and furnishings, and how they thought about them. Designed for scholarly research, it includes textual and visual sources and points researchers toward analytical issues associated with representing the interior. Textual sources cover novels, poetry, manuscripts and inventories, diaries and correspondence, accounts, trade literature and advertisements, and periodicals and advice manuals. Visual sources extend from Renaissance paintings to 18th century graphic satire, from 19th century design books and popular magazines to dolls’ houses, from 20th century photographs and computer stills to interior design drawings.
Encarta Online
http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_/browse.html
Encyclopedia articles, historic documents, speeches, literary excerpts, literature guides, dictionary, thesaurus, and translator.
Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1911 edition
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page
Electronic version of the renowned 11th edition.
Farber Gravestone
Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/farber/
The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource
containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000
gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of
the United States. The late Daniel Farber of
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn
Contains around 1,106,000 names and other information relating to approximately 912,000 places significant to art, architecture, and material culture.
Getty Union List of Artist Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/index.html
Stores around 293,000 names and other information relating to approximately 120,000 artists. Names may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time.
Greater
http://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/index.cfm
A web-based repository of geographically organized
historical information about
Guide to American
Studies Resources
http://asa.press.jhu.edu/gasr/programs.html
Includes a directory of American studies and American ethnic studies programs as well as resources of interest to American studies scholars, such as deadlines for submission of grants, information about scholarly journals, a directory of electronic resources in American studies, and addresses of significant associations, American Studies centers, foundations, government agencies, and publishers.
Gunston Hall Probate
Inventory Database
http://www.gunstonhall.org/probate/index.html
Contains 325 probate inventories in the
HEARTH
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/
HEARTH is a
core electronic collection of books and journals at
Internet Library of
Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
ILEJ was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham,
Leeds,
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture http://americanart.si.edu/art_info/inventories-intro.cfm
The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture at the
Smithsonian Institution document more than 360,000 artworks in public and
private collections worldwide. The Inventory of American Paintings includes
works by artists who were born or active in
LibDex: The Library
Index
A worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs), Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links.
Library of Congress
Authorities
Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for subject, name, title and name/title combinations and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system.
"Make it
yourself”: Home Sewing, Gender and Culture, 1890-1930
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/index.html
Written by Sarah A. Gordon, this electronic book explores “the cultural meanings of sewing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the dynamics and persistence of home sewing as clothing became increasingly available for purchase and more women worked outside the home.”
Making of
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Making of
National Union
Catalog of Manuscript Collections
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/
A free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by
the Library of Congress, the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
(NUCMC) includes online records of manuscript and archival collections in repositories
throughout the
Old Directory Search
http://www.olddirectorysearch.com/
City directories from eight states, 1786-1907, with links to other sites that provide free access to other directories.
Perpetual Calendar
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/eprebel/Calendar/Perpetual/
The Julian Calendar (for years between A.D. 1 and A.D. 1582), and the Gregorian Calendar (for years between A.D. 1582 and A.D. 2400).
http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/
Architectural and historical information and images for over 35,000 structures, mostly in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties from the collections of the Athenæum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and many other local cultural institutions.
Project Muse
Full text access to over 350 humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.
Roget's Thesaurus http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
The 1911 edition.
Victoria Research Web
This site is dedicated to the scholarly study of 19th
century
Organizations
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works http://aic.stanford.edu/
Founded in 1972 to support conservation professionals by working to establish and uphold professional standards, promoting research and publications, providing educational opportunities, and fostering the exchange of knowledge among conservators, allied professionals, and the public.
Ephemera Society of
http://www.ephemerasociety.org/
Formed in 1980 to cultivate and encourage interest in ephemera and its history. Site provides examples of ephemera, exhibits, selected articles, bibliography, and show calendar.
Independent Research
Libraries Association (IRLA)
Addresses the common needs and aspirations of independent, privately-supported research libraries: how to preserve the cultural heritage represented in library collections, how to serve the public and the academy, and how to finance and manage private libraries. Established in 1972.
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) http://www.mesda.org/index.php?id=55
A range of southern artistry and craftsmanship from the 1670s through the early nineteenth century. MESDA’s twenty four period rooms and six galleries exhibit decorative arts objects from the three regions of the early South: the Chesapeake, the Low Country and the Backcountry and include objects from North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
A consortium of 28 libraries whose collections total approximately 3,000,000 rare books, 200,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archival materials, and 9,000,000 photographs, maps, architectural drawings, and works of art on paper. PACSCL member libraries hold rich collections of materials on national, regional, and local history; the natural and social sciences; world history, literature and religion; art and architecture; and business and industry.
Society of
Composed of alumni of