Finding Secondary Historical Sources
For historical information that isn't a primary source, you can use secondary sources. Secondary sources are works that analyze, assess or interpret a historical event, era, or phenomenon. Unlike primary sources, secondary sources are written well after the historical event/era/phenomenon takes place. For example, a book published in 2020 analyzing the effects of the women's movement during the Progressive Era on American society is considered a secondary source.
Secondary sources can be articles, books, videos, etc.
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Print Books
To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 by Call Number: E99 .K5 E45 1996ISBN: 9780806128252Publication Date: 1996-04-15
White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery by Call Number: E185.2 .S52 1988ISBN: 9780870235771Publication Date: 1988-03-01
Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925 by Call Number: E185.86 .N48 1989ISBN: 9780870495830Publication Date: 1989-02-01The Issues of the Populist and Progressive Eras, 1892-1912 by
Call Number: E661 .A5 1969Publication Date: 1969
New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905 by Call Number: E661 .E27 2015ISBN: 9780190217174Publication Date: 2015-05-15
The Progressive Era: A Reference Guide by Call Number: E661 .S555 2015ISBN: 9781610694476Publication Date: 2015-05-26The Progressive Era: Liberal Renaissance or Liberal Failure? by
Call Number: E743 .M27 1963Publication Date: 1963
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Call Number: E757 .G66 2013bISBN: 9781416547860Publication Date: 2013-11-05
Ascent to Affluence: A History of American Economic Development by Call Number: HC103 .H45Publication Date: 1969
Labor in America: A History by Call Number: HD8066 .D8 1984ISBN: 9780882958255Publication Date: 1984-02-01Social Darwinism in American Thought by
Call Number: HM22.U5 H6 1959ISBN: 9780807600795Publication Date: 1959-04-01
American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 by Call Number: HQ1419 .S34 1993ISBN: 9780816025138Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 by Call Number: HT123 .B67 1992ISBN: 0674028627Publication Date: 1992-03-01Also available as an eBook!
One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement by Call Number: JK1896 .O54 1995ISBN: 9780939165261Publication Date: 1995-08-15
A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption by Call Number: JK2249 .C69 2015ISBN: 9781594037276Publication Date: 2015-02-10
Child Labor in America: The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children by Call Number: KF3552 .F55 2018ISBN: 9780700626304Publication Date: 2018-05-23
eBooks
These books are found in our eBook collection, so they are available online and not in print on our shelves. Clicking on the book title will take you to a page where you can click on the link under the "View Online" section, which takes you to another page where you need to click on the PDF in the left margin to read the full book.
Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us) by ISBN: 1469605384Publication Date: 2009-10-01
The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City by ISBN: 0807876534Publication Date: 2006-03-08
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 by ISBN: 0520920198Publication Date: 1998-11-23
Handbook to Life in America: The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929 by ISBN: 1282439790Publication Date: 2009-01-01
The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age by ISBN: 1282959573Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women's Activism, 1880-1920 by ISBN: 0815635702Publication Date: 2018-04-30- Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 by Call Number: HT123 .B67 1992ISBN: 0674028627Publication Date: 1992-03-01Also available as a print book!
