Sources for U.S. History

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Sources for U.S. History is written by W. B. Stephens and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521531365 (ISBN 10) and 9780521531368 (ISBN 13).

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 As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual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.