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Key Resources:

* Library Catalog : Search the catalog for books, journals, microfilms, and government documents.

* WorldCat : Contains millions of records of all types of materials worldwide including archival materials. Indicates which libraries own the materials.

* Interlibrary Loan (To request books and articles that are not available at ODU Libraries)

ILLiad: Users must first register as an ODU patron, then select the type of item you wish to request, and fill in as much information as you know about the requested item.

* Microfilm Collections (small sample -- see History Collections on Microform ODU for more)

• American Women's Diaries: New England, Western and Southern
• Black Death: Sources Concerning the European Plague
• Early American Imprints: (aka Evans Imprints) Collections that are individually cataloged of books, pamphlets, and periodical publications printed in the U.S. from 1639-1820.
• Library of American Civilization: Ultrafiche collection that are individually cataloged materials realting to virtually all aspects of American life and literature up to W.W.I.

* Databases and Indexes (to find periodical articles)

www.lib.odu.edu > Databases > Choose from the subject list or choose from the alphabetical list.

America: History and Life
Indexes journal articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes books and journal articles published 1960 and later for historical coverage of the world from 1450 to contemporary times. (Does not include United States and Canada)
JSTOR
Fulltext database of older scholarly journal articles, many dating back to the 1880's.
Project Muse
Fulltext database of scholarly journals 1995 to present.
American Periodicals Series
Over 1,100 fulltext periodicals published between 1740-1900 - keyword searchable.
British Periodicals Collection
Over 160 fulltext journals from the late 1700's -1800's.
C19: The Nineteenth Century
Includes the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog, the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, and Palmer's Index to the Times (London).
HarpWeek
Full image reproduction of Harper's Weekly 1857-77 including illustrations, cartoons, literature and ads.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817-1906 Digital version of all the reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives - provides a wealth of primary source material on all aspects of American History.

* Primary Sources -- samples for American History (see also the Subject Guide for History, which lists more resources)

Available through the ODU Library Web site:
Accessible Archives
Primary source material from the 18th and 19th c. including The Liberator, Godey's Lady's Book, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Civil War Newspapers, and African American Newspapers.
American Broadsides and Ephemera
Contains PDFs of broadsides and ephemera between 1760-1900.
American State Papers
Primary source material from 1789-1838 including Congressional and Executive publications.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Data series covering topics from migration to health to the Confederate States.

Available on the Web (small sample!!)
American Memory
Provides fulltext documents, books, images, audio files, and other resources on American History from the Library of Congress.
Avalon Project
Documents in American law, history, economics, diplomacy and government maintained by Yale University.
Civil War Women
Primary letters and diaries from Duke University.
Documenting the American South
Texts, images, and audio files in Southern history from the colonial period through the 20th c.
From Revolution to Reconstruction
Primary source documents from the Magna Carta through the modern period.
Immigration to the United States
1789-1930 Digitized primary sources from Harvard's libraries and museums.
Making of America
Digital library of sources in American Social History.
Revisiting the World's Fairs
Bibliography and links to expositions.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages from Emory University.

Citation Style Guides

Turabian Style Guide from Ohio State University
Chicago/Turabian Style Guide from University of Wisconsin Madison
Turabian Citation Style from C.W Post