Resources for Historical Research on the Web

The book titles below are organized by course and link to primary historical sources which may be useful for writing papers.

Values in American Life HUM 225:

Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives by Allen Pinkerton.

Tramping on Life by Harry Kemp.

One Thousand Homeless Men by Alice Solenberger.

The Life and Adventures of A-No.1 by Himself.

My Life in Prison by Donald Lowrie.

Autobiography of a Thief by Hutchins Hapgood.

The Gay-cat: The Story of a Road-kid and His Dog by Patrick Casey.

Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene Talbot.

Race Decadence by William Sadler.

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard.

The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves.

Dictionary of Americanisms by John Bartlett.

Prejudices by HL Mencken.

Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday Evening Review.

The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt.

The American People: A Study in National Psychology by A. Maurice Low.

Ethics for Young People by CC Everett.

From Dance Hall to White Slavery by John Dillon.

Satan in Society by A. Physician.

Un-American Immigration by Rena Atchison.

The New America: A Study of the Imperial Republic by Beckles Willson.

The Middle Five by Francis LaFlesche

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman.

The Workers in American History by James O’Neal.

The Road by Jack London.