Sources for U.S. History

This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century U.S. communities large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography ethnicity and race land use and settlement religion education politics and local government industry trade and transportation and poverty health and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national state or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources published and unpublished quantitative and qualitative available for the study of many places the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual collections in particular those of the National Archives.