HIST 151: Technology and Society in American History (Harrisburg)
This guide is for students in Penn State Harrisburg's HIST 151 and other courses focusing on the history of technology. It includes databases, research tips, and other resources for various assignments.
A source for important American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.
Search a selection of periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Contains full-text of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Digitized page images reproduce the publications as they appeared when originally published.
Best resource for finding basic biographical facts about about everyday Americans up to the 1940s.
With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States, UK, and Canadian censuses, beginning in the 18th and 19th century; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more. These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.
Patents describe and illustrate inventors' designs. Google Patent Search is not the official source for U.S. patent research, but it is easier to use than federal databases.
The Library of Congress is America's largest library and has many of the nation's most important collections of primary sources. Check here for materials that have been digitized.
Includes a digitized image of every backfile issue of The New York Times from cover to cover, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements. Searchers can use basic keyword, advanced, guided, and relevancy search techniques to locate information. Or, they can browse through issues page by page, as one would browse a printed edition. Search results lists provide bibliographic information, including date, issue, article headline, page number, and byline (where given). Users may choose to display the full page image of any page in any issue.
A fun source for researching consumer and home technologies from 1850 to 1950.
Explore domestic consumerism, life and leisure in America between 1850-1950 with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. This resource presents a wealth of highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends, and provide a valuable visual record for a breadth of interdisciplinary study.