American Studies 

Although millions of documents have been digitized in the last few years, there are a number of unique collections in microfilms available at Swem Library that should not be overlooked for thesis and dissertation topics. The microfilms are loacted on the ground floor of Swem. Here are just a few large collections:

American Indian Correspondence: the Presbyterian Historical Society collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893 E98 .M6 A43

American Women's Diaries: Southern Women CT3230.A44

Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching Papers HV6459 .A78

Catharine Maria Sedgwick Papers 1798-1908 PS2798 .Z5 A4

Commission on Interracial Cooperation Papers, 1919-1944 E185.5 .C66

Dime Novels : Escape Fiction of the Nineteenth Century PS374 .D5 D5

Leonard Bernstein Collection Scrapbooks ML3930 .B48 A3 1999

Microfilm Edition of the Pre-Revolutionary Diaries, 1635-1774 CT240 .M53

New England Women and Their Families in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Personal Papers, Letters and Diaries HQ1418 .N49

Papers of the NAACP (various series and departmental files)E185.61 .N37

Periodicals By and About the North American Indians E75 .A2

Rolling Stone (magazine) 1967-present ML1 .R65