English 283: Creative Writing: Historical & Primary Sources

Collection of historical maps of South Dakota communities created by Sanborn Map Company from 1867 to 1970. Large scale plans of a city or town, drawn to a scale of 50 feet to an inch, created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. Includes building outlines, size and shape, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, and property numbers. Plans often include details on construction materials and building use; and also depict pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, dumps, and other features likely to affect the property's vulnerability to earthquake, fire, and flood. Multiple editions allow community development to be tracked over time.

Based on the genealogical database of Ancestry.com, this ProQuest version provides access to more than 1.5 billion names in more than 4,000 databases. It includes information from U.S. Censuses, immigration records, vital records, court records, church records, ethnic records, city directories, genealogical societies, Social Security Death Index, and other sources. This database is not available from off-campus.

Genealogy database that includes the U.S. Census 1790-1940; 28,000 family and local history books; over 2.3 million genealogy and local history articles; Revolutionary War era pension and bounty land application file; Freedman's Bank records for 1865-1874; and memorials, petitions, and private relief actions in the U.S. Serial Set.

Indigenous Peoples: North America provides users with a robust, informative source that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.

This collection provides unique documents on the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazi concentration camp commandants and camp personnel. Documents include: correspondence; trial records and transcripts; investigatory material, such as interrogation reports and trial exhibits; clemency petitions and reviews; photographs of atrocities; newspaper clippings; and pamphlets.