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Jules Verne, the Wild West, and Frontier Socialism

Invention Museum  
   
 
Selected General Sources
Source Location
Books on American Civilization 1865-1918 Invisible square
Books on American Civilization 1918-1945 Invisible square
Books on Utopias Invisible square
Bodies and Machines PS228.T42 S45 1992
The Cambridge companion to science fiction PN3377.5.S3 C36 2003
A Companion to American Thought Reference E169.1 .C685 1995
Dictionary of American communal and utopian history Reference HX653 .F65
The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century Reference E169.1 .E626 2001
The great American fair: the World's Columbian Exposition & American culture T500.B1 B3
Historical dictionary of the Gilded Age Reference E661 .H59 2003
Historical Dictionary of Utopianism Reference HX806 .M626 2004
The incorporation of America: culture and society in the gilded age E169.1 .T72 1982
Inventing the 19th century: 100 inventions that shaped the Victorian Age from aspirin to the Zeppelin T19 .V36 2001
Inventing the twentieth century: 100 inventions that shaped the world : from the airplane to the zipper T20 .V36 2000
Literature, technology, and modernity, 1860-2000 PR468.T4 D35 2004
New dictionary of the history of ideas Reference CB9 .N49 2005
Nuts and bolts of the past: a history of American technology, 1776-1860 T21 .H39 1988
Our own devices: how technology remakes humanity T14.5 .T4588 2004
Utopian/dystopian literature Reference PN56.U8 H38 1994
Technology's past Reference T21 .K55 1996

 
Academic Search Premier - peer-reviewed articles, news stories, and magazines
America History and Life
American Periodicals Series
Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Historical Abstracts


 
Chicago Tribune - 1849-1986
New York Times Historical - 1851-2005
Times Digital Archive [London] - 1785-1985
Washington Post Historical - 1877-1992

 


 

Making of America
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
Cornell Collection
University of Michigan Collection

Science and the Environment at the National Archives
Patents, inventions, energy, transportation, and so on.
USASearch.gov - online search for government documents

 



 
Evaluating Traditional Sources
Magazines for Libraries - Ready Ref PN4832 .K2 1992 16th ed.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - Ready Ref Z6941 .U5 46th ed. 2008 v. 4
Evaluating Websites
WhoIs.net - To determine ownership of a domain


 
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