United States: Links
Libraries
The University's libraries are among our most important
resources for the study of U.S. history at Chicago. Regenstein
Library, the University's main library, has a general U.S. collection
of enormous breadth, as well as a range of special collections that
are discussed in Bibliographer Frank Conaway's History
website. The Crerar
Library's sources in the history of American science, medicine,
and technology, the Law
Library, and the library of the School
of Social Service Administration are also of major value.Just
across the Midway adjoining campus is the Center
for Research Libraries, a central repository for rare material from
research libraries throughout the country, whose holdings include a voluminous
collection of historic American newspapers and journals, to which Chicago
students have easy access. University of Chicago students also have full
library privileges at Northwestern
University's libraries.
Chicago's South Side also houses the midwest branch of the National Archives at the Federal Records Center. The Newberry Library on the Near North Side is one of America's major private research libraries, with collections and programss of central interest to Americanists. Its centers for Family and Community History, Native American History, and History of Cartography all support regular lectures, seminars, and fellowships for Americanists. The University of Chicago is one of the members of the Newberry-CIC Native American Studies Consortium, and UC students are eligible to apply for its fellowships and courses. UC American History graduate students regularly participate in Newberry seminars where they meet and interact with other area graduate students. Newberry book and manuscript collections are particularly rich in American history to 1900. The Chicago Historical Society, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Public Library, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies Library, and the Hull House Social Welfare archives at the University of Illinois-Chicago are only some of the other major area resources for Americanists. The Chicago Historical Society sponsors a monthly Urban History Seminar that, like the Newberry seminars, attracts historians from throughout the Chicago region.
Other Resources for Americanists