"The Summit of the Sierra Nevada" in The Yellowstone National Park, Boston, 1876. Catalog record
Researchers can find a variety of primary and secondary sources for environmental studies through approximately 1900 in North America. The following research guide is intended to serve as a starting point for your research.
Finding Primary Sources
The General Catalog uses genre/form terms to make findable enivonmental studies materials through approximately 1900. Researchers can use the following terms:
- Agricultural newspapers
- Agricultural periodicals
- Bird's-eye views
- Canal newspapers
- Canal periodicals
- Cadastral maps
- Exploration literature
- Landscape prints
- Lumbering newspapers
- Lumbering periodicals
- Maps
- Maritime newspapers
- Maritime periodicals
- Mining newspapers
- Mining periodicals
- Railroad industry newspapers
- Railroad industry periodicals
The General Catalog uses Library of Congress subject headings including:
- Agriculture
- Canals
- Factories
- Fertilizers
- Forests and forestry
- Horticulture
- Industries
- Lakes
- Lumber trade
- Mining
- Natural history
- Natural resources
- Railroads
- Rivers
- Roads
- Sanitation
- United States Exploring Expedition
- Water-supply
Additional keyword searches
If you don't find what you are looking for please email our staff at reference [at] mwa.org (reference[at]mwa[dot]org).
Digital Collections and Projects
Catalog record
The following project websites are freely available from anywhere.
- Audubon's Birds of America
- Big Business: Food Production, Processing & Distribution in the North, 1850-1900
The following digital collections are available to researchers who are present at AAS and signed on to AAS networks. Publishers provide separate tools for searching their collections. Some feature materials not held at AAS.
- Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange (Adam Matthew)
- Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature (Gale)
- Migration to New Worlds: The Century of Immigration (Adam Matthew)
- Gale Primary Sources
Includes all Gale products available at AAS - Readex AllSearch
Includes all Readex products available at AAS
Recorded Programs
The series nature and the environment features presentations most of which resulted from research completed in the AAS collection.
Fellowship Opportunities
The American Antiquarian Society awards over forty fellowships annually. Fellowships are offered for postdoctoral academics, advanced graduate students, independent scholars, as well as for creative and performing artists and writers.