Community in America, in Maine and at Bowdoin  

Professor: Sarah McMahon

Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft

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Dictionary Of American History

• Main Ref E174 .D52 2003
• Multi-volume set with extensive entries on events, movements, people, and other topics in American history. Articles contain bibliographies.

The Encyclopedia Of American Facts And Dates

• Main Ref E174.5 .C3 1993

Encyclopedia of American Social History

• Main Ref HN57 .E58 1993
• Three-volume, specialized encyclopedia of lengthy scholarly signed articles with bibliographies on social and cultural topics in American history.

Encyclopedia of American social movements

• Main Ref HN57 .E594 2004
• Volume 3 has a section titled “Religious, Utopian, and Health Movements.”

Readers Companion To American History

• Main Ref   E174 .R43 1991

Encyclopedia Of The United States In The Nineteenth Century

• Main Ref E169.1 .E626 2001

Historical Statistics Of The United States Colonial Times To 1970
Historical Statistics of the United States (Online version) 

• Govt Ref C3.134/2:H 62/798-970
• Not only population, but numbers relating to agriculture, fishing, income, education, etc.

Historical census data browser.

• Using data from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), this site allows users to browse selected census data from 1790 to 1970 by state and county. Data from the early years (1790 to 1830) focuses solely on population characteristics, while data after those years include selected economic, manufacturing, and agricultural information.

Statistical Abstract Of The United States

• Washington : G.P.O. Library owns most years from 1886.
• Govt Doc C 3.134: 1886
• Online Abstracts begin in 1878.