Below are archives, libraries, and museums for social history. For additional
resources, see History: Archives, Libraries, and Museums.
To search for archival materials, use the resources at History: Archival
Resources.
Archives
of Industrial Society, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh.
Collections covering the development of urban industrial society, with an
emphasis on Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.
International
Institute of Social History
One of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the
field of social history in general and the history of the labor movement
in particular. Includes links to other social history resources.
Social
Science History Association
Dedicated to improving "the quality of historical explanation in every manner
possible, but particularly by encouraging the selective use and adaptation
in historical teaching and research of relevant theories and methods from
related disciplines, particularly the social sciences."
Sometimes you may need some information to get more familiar with your topic.
Below are some materials that can provide background on topics in social history.
Please remember that the resources listed in International
are applicable for any region. Additional resources are listed at History: Background.
Barbuto,
Domenica M. American Settlement Houses and Progressive Social Reform:
An Encyclopedia of the American Settlement Movement. Phoenix, Ariz.:
Oryx Press, 1999.
HUNT REF-1 HV4194 .B37 1999
Buhle, Mari
Jo, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, eds. Encyclopedia of the American
Left. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
HUNT REF-1 HX86 .E58 1998
Burlingame, Dwight, ed. Philanthropy in America: a Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2004. HUNT REF-1 HV91 .P58 2004
Ciment, James, ed. Encyclopedia of American Immigration. 4 vols. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. HUNT REF-1 JV6465 .E53 2000
Collier,
Simon, Thomas E. Skidmore, and Harold Blakemore. The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
HUNT REF-1 F1406 .C36 1992
Engs, Ruth C. The Eugenics Movement: an Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. HUNT REF-1 HQ751 .E64 2005
Fass, Paula S., ed. Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: in History and Society.
3 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c2004.
HUNT REF-1 HQ767.84 .E53 2004
Finkelman,
Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century.
3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001
HUNT REF-1 E169.1 .E626 2001
Fischel,
Jack, and Sanford Pinsker, eds. Jewish-American History and Culture:
An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1992.
HUNT REF-1 E184 .J5 J48 1992
Gale, Robert
L. The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.
HUNT REF-1 E169.1 .G26 1992
Glasmeier, Amy. An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003. New York: Routledge, 2006. HUNT REF-1 HC110 .P6 G543 2006 HUNT REF-1 HC110 .P6 G543 2006 CD (at Hunt Reference desk)
Greve, Bent. Historical Dictionary of the Welfare State. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006. HUNT REF-1 JC479 .G74 2006
Hamilton,
Neil A. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in
America. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1997.
HUNT REF-1 E169.02 .H3515 1997
Hamilton,
Neil A., et al. Atlas of the Baby Boom Generation. Detroit, Mich.:
Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.
HUNT REF-1 E741 .A88 2000
Heidler,
David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Civil
War: A Political, Social, and Military History. 5 vols. Santa Barbara,
Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.
HUNT REF-1 E468 .H47 2000
Herrick, John M. and Paul H. Stuart, eds. Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications Ltd., c2005. HUNT REF-1 HV12 .E497 2005
Holsinger,
Paul. War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
HUNT REF-1 E181 .W26 1999
Inge, M.
Thomas, ed. Handbook of American Popular Culture. 3 vols.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
HUNT REF-1 E169.1 .H2643 1989
Kanellos,
Nicolás, and Claudio Esteva-Fabregat, eds. Handbook of Hispanic
Cultures in the United States. 3 vols. Houston, Tex.: Arte Público
Press, c1993.
HUNT REF-1 E184 .S75 H365 1993
Khan, Veryan,
ed. Beacham's Encyclopedia of Social Change: America in the Twentieth
Century. 4 vols. Osprey, FL: Beacham Pub. Corp., 2001.
HUNT REF-1 HN59.2 .B43 2001
Kross, Jessica,
et al, eds. American Eras. 6 vols. Detroit: Gale Research,
c1997-c1998.
HUNT REF-1 E169.1 .A471979
Set of books which covers the major events, issues, people, etc. in the
period 1600-1899.
Kupiec,
Mary Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia
of American Social History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, c1993.
HUNT REF-1 HN57 .E58 1993
Kutler,
Stanley I., ed. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth
Century. 5 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.
HUNT REF-1 E740.7 .E53 1996
See especially V. 1, Part 1, The American People and Volume IV, Culture.
Vol. 5 is a detailed index to the entire set.
Layman,
Richard, ed. American Decades. Detroit: Gale Research,
c1994-c1995.
HUNT REF-1 E169.12 .A419 1994
Ongoing set of books which covers the major events, issues, people, publications,
etc. in a particular decade. Currently the volumes cover the 1900s to
the 1990s.
Levinson,
David and Melvin Ember, eds.American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of
a Nation. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c1997.
HUNT REF-1 E184 .A1 A63448 1997
Lippy, Charles
H., and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Religious
Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements. 3 vols. New
York: Scribner, c1988.
HUNT REF-1 BL2525 .E53 1988
Martin,
Waldo E. and Patricia Sullivan., eds. Civil Rights in the United States.
2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c2000.
HUNT REF-1 E184 .A1 C47 2000
McAnulty, Richard D. and Michele Burnette, eds. Sex and Sexuality. 3 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
HUNT REF-1 HQ21 .S4716 2006
Ness, Immanuel, ed. Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. 4 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, c2004. HUNT REF-1 HN57 .E594 2004
Ng, Franklin,
ed. The Asian American Encyclopedia. 6 vols. New York:
Marshall Cavendish, c1995.
HUNT REF-1 E184 .O6 A827 1995
Pendergast,
Tom, and Sara Pendergast, eds. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular
Culture. 5 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, c2000.
HUNT REF-1 E169.1 .S764 2000
Rollin,
Lucy. Twentieth-century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
HUNT REF-1 HQ799 .U65 R65 1999
Rood, Karen
Lane, ed. American Culture After World War II. Detroit:
Gale Research, c1994.
FA-REF-4 E169.12 .A418 1994
Singleton,
Carl, ed. The Sixties in America. 3 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem
Press, c1999.
HUNT REF-1 E841 .S55 1999
Standish,
Peter, ed. Hispanic Culture of South America. Detroit:
Gale Research, c1995.
HUNT REF-1 F2237 .H57 1995
Stein, Marc, ed. Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. 3 vols. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson/Gale, c2004.
HUNT REF-1 HQ76 .3.U5 E53 2004
Stern, Jane,
and Michael Stern. Jane & Michael Stern's Encyclopedia of Pop
Culture: An A to Z Guide of Who's Who and What's What, From Aerobics and
Bubble Gum to Valley of the Dolls and Moon Unit Zappa. New York:
HarperPerennial, c1992.
HUNT REF-1 E169.12 .S835 1992
Thernstrom,
Stephan, ed. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups.
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1980.
HUNT REF-1 E184 .A1 H35
Weir, Robert E. Class in America: an Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. HUNT REF-1 HN90 .S6 C564 2007
Werner,
Michael S., ed. Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture.
2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
HUNT REF-1 1210 .E63 1997
Wilson,
Charles Reagan, and William Ferris, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1989.
HUNT REF-1 F209 .E53 1989
Blunden,
Caroline, and Mark Elvin. Cultural Atlas of China. New
York: Facts on File Inc., c1983.
HUNT OVRSZQ-2 DS721 .B56 1998 HUNT REF-1 DS721 .B56 1998
Collcutt,
Martin, Marius Jansen, and Isao Kumakura. Cultural Atlas of Japan.
[New York]: Facts on File, 1988.
HUNT OVRSZQ-2 DS821 .C62 1988
Embree,
Ainslie Thomas, ed. The Encyclopedia of Asian History.
4 vols. New York: Scribner, 1988.
HUNT REF-1 DS31 .E53 1987
Hook, Brian,
ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1991
HUNT REF-1 DS705 .C35 1991
Huffman,
James L., ed. Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture,
and Nationalism. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
HUNT REF-1 DS805 .M63 1998
Johnson,
Gordon. Cultural Atlas of India: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan,
Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. New York: Facts on File, c1996.
HUNT REF-1 DS421 .J6 1996
Perkins,
Dorothy. Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China,
Its History and Culture. New York: Facts on File, c1999.
HUNT REF-1 DS705 .P47 1999
Schilling,
Mark. The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture. New York:
Weatherhill, 1997.
HUNT REF-1 DS822.5 .S3 1997
Wang, Ke-wen,
ed. Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism.
New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
HUNT REF-1 JC311 .M54 1998
Ardagh,
John, with Colin Jones. Cultural Atlas of France. New
York: Facts on File, 1991.
HUNT REF-1 G1844 .21.E64 A7 1991
Black, Christopher
F., et al. Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance. New York:
Prentice Hall General Reference, c1993.
FA-REF-4 G1989.21.E644 C8 1993
Brosman,
Catharine Savage, ed. French Culture, 1900-1975. Detroit:
Gale Research, c1995.
HUNT OVRSZQ-2 DC33.7 .F726 1995
Buse, Dieter
K., and Juergen C. Doerr, eds. Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia
of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. 2 vols. New York:
Garland Pub., 1998.
HUNT REF-1 DD14 .M64 1998
Dabundo,
Laura Susan, ed. Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain,
1780s-1830s. New York: Garland Pub., 1992.
HUNT REF-1 DA529 .E53 1992
Grendler,
Paul F., ed. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. 6 vols.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons in association with the Renaissance
Society of America, 1999.
HUNT REF-1 CB361 .E52 1999
Hughes,
Alex, and Keith Reader, eds. Encyclopedia of Contemporary French
Culture. New York: Routledge, 1998.
HUNT REF-1 DC33.7 .E53 1998
Milner-Gulland,
R. R., with Nikolai Dejevsky. Cultural Atlas of Russia and the
Former Soviet Union. New York: Checkmark Books, c1998.
HUNT REF-1 DK32 .M62 1998
Minahan,
James. One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European
National Groups. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
HUNT REF-1 D21.3 .M55 2000
Mitchell,
Sally, et al, eds. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia.
New York: Garland Pub., 1988.
HUNT REF-1 DA550 .V53 1988
Stearns,
Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to
2000. 6 vols. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001
HUNT REF-1 HN373 .E63 2001
Brobeck,
Stephen, ed. Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement. Santa
Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
HUNT REF-1 HC79 .C63 E53 1997
Dynes, Wayne
R., ed. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. 2 vols. New York:
Garland Pub., 1990.
HUNT REF-1 HQ76.25 .E53 1990
Ember, Melvin, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. 2 vols. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004. HUNT REF-1 JV6225 .E53 2004
Findling,
John E., ed. Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions,
1851-1988. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
FA-REF-4 T395 .H57 1990
Gulevich, Tanya. Encyclopedia of Christmas and New Year's Celebrations: Over 240 Alphabetically Arranged Entries Covering Christmas, New Year's, and Related Days of Observance, Including Folk and Religious Customs, History, Legends, and Symbols from Around the World; Supplemented by a Bibliography and Lists of Christmas Web Sites and Associations ... 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich.: Omnigraphics, 2003.
HUNT REF-1 GT4985 .G79 2003
Magill,
Frank N., ed. Great Events From History II. Arts and Culture Series.
5 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, c1993.
HUNT FA-REF-4 700.904 G786
Petersen,
William, and Renee Petersen. Dictionary of Demography: Terms,
Concepts, and Institutions. 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1985.
HUNT REF-1 HB849.2 .P47 1986
Ross, John
A., ed. International Encyclopedia of Population. 2 vols.
New York: Free Press, c1982.
HUNT REF-1 HB849.2 .I55 1982
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Encyclopedia of Kitchen History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, c2004.
HUNR REF-1 TX653 .S57 2004
Stearns,
Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of Social History. New York:
Garland, 1994.
HUNT REF-1 HN28 .E53 1994 HUNT STACKS-2 HN28 .E53 1994
Swatos,
William H., ed. Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.
Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, c1998.
HUNT REF-1 BL60 .E53 1998
Zimmerman,
Bonnie and George Haggerty, eds. Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay
Histories and Cultures. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1999.
HUNT REF-1 HQ75.13 .E53 2000
Below are some databases and print indexes that you can use to find books and
articles on social history topics. See Social History: Primary Sources: Newspapers and Magazines for a list of historical newspaper and magazine resources. For a more complete listing of those relevant
to History, see History: Databases and Indexes.
If you need help in selecting or using a database or index for your research,
please contact the Hunt Library reference desk.
America: History and Life (Carnegie Mellon users only)
1954-present (updated monthly).
Citations and some abstracts to journal articles, dissertations, and
book and media reviews on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers all historical topics, including foreign policy, and a variety of disciplines including popular culture, gender studies, anthropology, literature and folklore, etc. Also has a non-US history counterpart Historical Abstracts. You can also search America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts simultaneously.
Historical Abstracts (Carnegie Mellon users only) 1954-present (Updated monthly).
Citations and some abstracts of journal articles, books, and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). It covers all historical topics, including foreign policy, and a variety of disciplines including religion, gender studies, anthropology, political science, etc. Also has a U. S. and and Canadian history counterpart, America: History and Life. You can also search America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts simultaneously.
Popline
(Population Information Program, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health)
1970-present (updated monthly).
Citations to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, and unpublished
works in the areas of population, family planning, and related health issues
such as family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population
law and policy.
Population Index
Full text: v. 3, 1937-current-12 years.
Annotated bibliography of books, journal articles, working papers and other
materials on population topics. Population Index on
the Web 1986-2000
Searchable and browseable database containing 42,662 abstracts of demographic
literature published in Population Index.
Web of Science
ca. 1900-present. (Carnegie Mellon users only) Online versions of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index. You can select which ones, as well as what years, will be searched.
If we don't have the books you need you can use EZ Borrow (books get here in about 3-5 days) or interlibrary loan using Illiad (books get here in about 7-10 days). If
full text links for journal articles are not provided, click on to see retrieval options. This
is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases.
Otherwise,
use Cameo and the Find e-journal list
to see if materials available to you. If they
aren't, you can use Illiad, the interlibrary loan service, to obtain the material. Reference staff can help you if you're not finding the materials you need.
Below are some major journals in social history. Use the library catalog and the Find e-journal list
to search for other journal titles in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries,
or use the databases listed above to find journal articles on particular topics.
For additional titles, see History: Journals.
Gender
and History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 10, 1997-present. Gender
and History
Print: v.1, 1989-present.
HUNT JOUR-3
Histoire
Sociale. Social History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 41, 2008-present.
Print: v.8, 1975-present.
HUNT JOUR-3
International
Review of Social History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 43, 1998-present. International
Review of Social History
Print: v.1, 1956-present.
HUNT JOUR-3
Journal of Interdisciplinary
History(Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 30, 1999/00-present. Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
Print: v.1, 1970-present
HUNT JOUR-3
Social History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 25, 2000-present. Social
History
Print: v.1, 1976- current minus 8 years.
Social Science History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 23, 1999-present. Social Science History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Full text: v. 1, 1976-current minus 2 years.
to see retrieval options. This
is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases.
Otherwise,
use Cameo and the Find e-journal list
to see if materials available to you. If they
aren't, you can use Illiad, the interlibrary loan service, to obtain the material. Reference staff can help you if you're not finding the materials you need.