The Digital Past

Chicago Manual of Style:

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online
• Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide

Secondary Sources:

• George Mason Libraries Info Guide for U.S. History 1880s-1930s
• Books or Monographs:
  • University Libraries catalog
  • WRLC Catalog
• Journal Articles:
  • America: History and Life
• General U.S. Histories:
  • The American Yawp (especially chapters 18-21).
  • Digital History, University of Houston. (Particularly the modules on the Gilded Age, America Becomes a World Power, Progressive Era, and World World I).
• Histories of Boston and Massachusetts:
  • “Mass Moments”

Primary Sources

• George Mason Libraries Info Guide for U.S. History 1880s-1930s:
  • Finding Primary Source Periodical Publications (Newspapers and Magazines)
  • Finding Primary Source Books and Imprints
  • Finding Legal and Government Documents
• Newspapers:
  • The Boston Daily Globe (You will need to login with your GMU id.)
  • Chronicling America
• General Repositories:
  • Digital Public Library of America
  • Digital Commonwealth
  • Boston Public Library Online Collections
  • Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System
• Archives from Colleges, Universities, Libraries and Archives in Boston:
  • Open Archives: Digital Collections at the University of Massachusetts Boston
  • Tufts Digital Library
  • “Digital Collections”, Boston College Libraries
• Government Documents and Publications:
  • Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of , 1808-1921, available online through Hathi Trust
  • Journal of the Massachusetts Senate, 1868-1922
  • The Boston City Directory Collection, 1789-1900, Boston Anthenaeum Digital Collections.
  • Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, tax records, 1822-1918. Family Search.
  • American journal of public hygiene : official organ of the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health and of the American Public Health Association, Laboratory Section.
  • Journal, Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health.
  • Boston Parks Commission Records Archive
  • Boston Parks Department Reports Archive