Useful links for your studies
The following links help facilitate research for scientific papers on the subject of American History. Among bibliographic websites and source databases, you can also find tips on writing scientific research papers. Some links require an account at the UB Heidelberg, where you can use further historical databases.
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Tips on writing scientific papers
Digital bibliographies concerning American history
Source databases concerning American history (interdisciplinary)
Civil Rights Movement
Political and military history (source databases)
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
This collection covers documents from 1929 through 1932, and 1945 throught 2026.
The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, which is compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, began in 1957 in response to a recommendation of the National Historical Publications Commission.
Economic and social history
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.