Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
History- North America:
Major Microfilm and Microfiche Sets in American History
Most of these sets are locate in the Current Periodicals and Microforms Room in the basement of
Alexander Library. They are arranged by microfiche or microfilm number. There is a help desk in
the Current Periodicals and Microforms Room. Additional copies of the guides are also kept behind
the Microforms Room help desk. Most of our microfiche and microfilm sets are in
IRIS and there is
an index to the sets at Alexander Library at:
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/microforms/search.cfm.
American Culture Series: Titles in the Field of Economics
Alexander Microfilm 2180; 37 reels
Guides: Alexander Reference E156 .A583 and Z1215 .U55
This is a valuable collection of early texts in economics, mostly from the nineteenth century. Navigating through the guides to a particular title can be difficult. To search by title or subject, start with the first guide, E156 .A583, and identify an author or an author and title. Then go to the second guide, Z1215 .U55, which lists the titles on each reel. This guide is arranged into eight topical sections and within each section the titles are arranged alphabetically by author.
American Culture Series: Titles in the Field of History
Alexander Microfilm 2181; 167 reels
Guides: Alexander Reference E156 .A583 and Z1215 .U56
For the use of the guides, see American Culture Series: Titles in the Field of Economics, above.
American Culture Series: Titles in the Field of Sciences
Alexander Microfilm 2639; 63 reels
Guides: E156 .A583 and Q158 .E37 1978
For the use of the guides, see American Culture Series: Titles in the Field of Economics, above.
American Labor Unions' Constitutions and Proceedings, 1836-1982
Alexander Microfilm 2243; 491 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference Z7164 .L1 N22
This set is supplemented by American Labor Unions, Update; microfiche 383.
American Women's Diaries: New England Women
Alexander Microfilm 2445; 21 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference HQ1412 .G84 1984
American Women's Diaries: Western, Southern Women, New England Women
Douglass Library Microfilm 21, 22, and 102; 35, 34, and 21 reels, respectively
Douglass Reference HQ1412 .G85 1991
Also include autobiographies, biographies, and oral histories.
Archives of the Settlement Movement
Alexander Microfilm 2837; 74 reels
Guide: HV4194.A73 1990
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865
Alexander Microfilm 2708; 17 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference E449.B625 1981
Alexander stacks has a five volume set of about ten percent of the titles on microfilm set at E449.B624 1985.
Black Literature, 1827-1940
Alexander Microfiche 406
Guide: Alexander Reference PS508 .N3 B25
There is a CD-ROM index to this set installed on a PC to the left of the reference desk in Alexander Library.
Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969
Alexander Microfilm 2598; 69 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference E185.61.C58
Cointelpro: the Counterintelligence Program of the FBI
Alexander Microfilm 2830; 30 reels
Files relating to surveillance the Communist Party, the Black Panthers, white hate groups and other organizations.
Communist Infiltration of the SCLC: FBI Investigation File
Alexander Microfilm 2828; 9 reels
File on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including J. Edgar Hoover's official and confidential file on Martin Luther King Jr.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Papers
Alexander Microfilm 2774; 43 reels
Early American Newspapers (1704-1820)
This set is located on shelves along the left side of the Current
Periodicals and Microforms Room. It contains the texts of approximately 400 newspapers
published in the Northeast and the Southeast between 1690 and about 1840.
For a full list of titles by state,
see
www.readex.com/scholarl/EAN%20Title%20List%204-26-04.PDF.
The first part of the set is on microcard, arranged alphabetically by state, city, and title.
The second part is on microfilm by title.
Early State Papers
Government Documents Microfilm Cabinets 20A-H & 21A-B, 721 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference Z1223.5.A1U47
We have the legislative records, statutory laws, and constitutional records for the states east of the Mississippi.
Eighteenth Century
This very large microfilm set is located along the right-hand wall of the Current Periodicals and Microforms room. The Eighteenth Century is an ongoing project to microfilm all the titles in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, essentially all of the surviving texts printed in English during the eighteenth century.
Guide: Alexander Reference Z6621 .B84B742
Emma Goldman Papers
Douglass Microfilm 3; 69 reels
Guide: Douglass Reference HX843.7. G65E55
Goldman was an important anarchists leader and writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Gerritsen Collection of Women's History
Douglass microfiche 376; 17,555. Douglass microfilm 127 ; 244 reels
Guides: Douglass and Alexander Reference HQ1121.G43
All of the individual titles within this set are indexed in IRIS.
History of Women
Alexander microfilm 2868; 1248 reels
Guides: Alexander, Camden, and Dana Reference HQ1121.R474 1981
All of the individual titles within this set are indexed in IRIS.
History of the Vietnam War
Alexander Microfiche 392
Guide: Alexander Reference: DS557.7 .H57 1987
We have parts one through eight of ten parts of this very large set. Part three includes extensive material on the anti-war movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File
Douglass Microfilm 8; 16 reels
Guide: Douglass Reference E185.97.K5M37 1984
We also have several of other FBI files, including one on the King assassination, on others figures in the civil rights movement, such as Jesse Jackson and A. Philip Randolph, and on other "radicals," such as Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Pamphlets in American History
Microfilm Cabinets 10 and 11 in Alexander Library
Guide: Alexander Reference E173.P35 and E173.P354
All of the individual titles within this set are indexed in IRIS.
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Douglass Microfilm 5; 45 reels
Guide: Camden, Dana, Douglass Reference HQ1413 .S689P37 1992; Alexander Reference Z6616.S689P37 1992
The Papers of Emma Hart Willard, 1787-1870
Douglass Microfilm 106; 25 reels
Guide: Douglass Reference LA2317.W5P37 2005
Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945
Alexander Microfilm 2319; 21 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference HX84 .D3P36 1983
Debs was a leader of the Socialist Party in the early twentieth century and the Socialist
candidate for president in 1912.
Papers of Jane Addams, 1860-1960
Alexander Microfilm 2431; 90 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference HV28.A33 1996
Papers of the League of Women Voters 1918-1974
Alexander Microfilm 2558; 64 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference JK1881.P36 1985
Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Government Documents Microfilm Cabinet 2F-I; 204 reels
Guide: Government Documents Reference GS4.20
Papers of the NAACP
Alexander Microfilm 2609; 288 reels
Guides: Alexander Reference E185.61 .N37
We have several parts of this very extensive collection.
Papers of W.E.B. DuBois
Alexander Microfilm 2670; 89 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference Z6616.D8M35 1981
Paul Robeson Collection
Dana Microfilm 81, Camden Microfilm E185.97 .R63R6 1991; 9 reels
Guides: Alexander and Camden Reference E185.97 .R63R6 1991
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War
Alexander Microfilm 2499; 14 reels
Guide: Alexander reference F213.R42
We have just series D.
Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (1895-1992)
Douglass Microfilm 23; 41 reels
Guides: Alexander and Douglass Reference E185.86 .N38R43 1994
Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1963 & 1919-1976, addendum
Alexander Microfilm 2658-59; 180 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference HX83.D78
State Slavery Statutes (1789-1865)
Alexander Microfiche 412
Guide: Alexander Reference KF4545.S5A127 1989
Every statute enacted in a Southern state pertaining to slavery.
Thomas A. Edison papers, Selective Microfilm Edition
Alexander Microfilm 2673; 193 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference Z6616 .E3G84
The first three of four parts have been digitized by the Edison papers project
at Rutgers:
http://edison.rutgers.edu/
U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Censuses
The individual responses to the census bureau questionnaires, known as the census schedules, are made public and published on microfilm 72 years after the census is taken. The titles vary. The Libraries own most of the available censuses for New Jersey and some for other states. The titles vary. To search for a particular census, try a "begins with" subject search in IRIS. For example, for 1920: "united states census 14th."
Voices of the Women's Movement, 1850-1900
Alexander Microfilm 2625; 28 reels
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
Series 2: Women in National Politics, part A: Democrats
Alexander Microfilm 2872; 14 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference HQ1236.5 .U6G8
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
Series 3: Sexuality, Sex Education, and Reproductive Rights
Alexander Microfilm 2873; 39 reels
Guide: Alexander Reference HQ766 .G855 1994
World War II Combat Interviews
Alexander Microfiche 455; 573 microfiche
Guide: Alexander Reference D811 .A2W67
