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Provides an update on the field of American history research as of March 1983. Collections accessioned by the Virginia Historical Society; Information on the collections opened by the Eastern Kentucky University Archives for research; Suggested information resources on U.S. history.

Discusses manuscript collections that document the history of African-American women. Reason behind African-American women's reluctance to donate personal papers to manuscript repositories; Highlights of the General Collections of the Black Women in the Middle West Project; Two repositories in Washington, DC wherein the most impressive and significant collections of manuscripts for African-American women's history are found.

Presents news briefs on events concerning historians in the U.S. as of 1983. Annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Los Angeles, California; Requirements of the Pelzer Award Committee for the essays to be submitted for the Louis Pelzer Award competition; Information on the accessions, openings and declassifications in the U.S. National Archives and Records Service.

Presents updates on events and issues in the U.S. as of 2004. Information on the "Journal of American History"; Award won by Mark Peel of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland for his essay "On the Margins: Lodgers and Borders in Boston, 1860-1900; Papers acquired by the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Provides an update on the American history archives as of March 1986. Papers opened by the Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina in Charlotte; Official records accessioned by the Division of Archives and Manuscripts of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Manuscript collections accessioned by the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond.

Introduces two articles which deals with archives and manuscripts in the U.S.

Presents information on archives, bibliographies and other information resources on the history of the U.S. Inauguration of the pre-1930 archival records at the Virginia Tech Libraries at Blacksburg; Records of Army maternity homes and hospitals accessed by the Salvation Army Archives and Research Center; Transcripts which were added to the oral history collection of the U.S. Naval Institute; List of books and other aids for research.

Presents updates on issues related to libraries and archives in the U.S. as of January 2005. Information on the content of the papers received by the University of Virginia Library from educator and book critic Doris Grumbach; List of manuscript collection that the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond has accessioned; Announcement of the availability of the two-volume record series "Record of Returns from Towns and Payments to Soldiers and Families during the Civil War."

Announces that a number of the original court records known as the Alcalde Records have been acquired by the National History Museum of Los Angeles County. Availability of the papers of several of Herbert Hoover's principal associates; Papers received by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library; Research collection acquired by the Georgetown University Library.

Discusses the records of lower federal courts. Legal historians' growing awareness of the value of those records for understanding constitutional provisions for free speech, press, and assembly. Suggests the opportunity that the records provide for those studying other aspects of American life; Local and regional history; Rich and varied holdings of the National Archives Regional Archives System.

Reviews two microfilm collections of Louis D. Brandeis' correspondence and documents relating to Progressive Reform and Zionism. "American Legal Manuscripts From the Harvard Law School Library. The Louis D. Brandeis Papers: 1916-1931," part I; "American Legal Manuscripts From the Harvard Law School Library. The Louis D. Brandeis Papers: 1932-1939," part II.

Discusses the importance of labor archives in the study of the history of U.S. Efforts of the U.S. federal government to settle labor disputes documented in federal archives; Role of labor in the emergence of the modern state; Impact of the rise of the national security state on the labor movement.

Focuses on some of the general trends in the history of the Web and its emergence as an online archive of primary and secondary sources. Strength of the grass-roots history Web; Information conglomerates and Internet startups on the private history Web; Access and control on the private history Web.

Presents a letter to the editor about a review of volumes 6 and 7 of the Andrew Johnson Papers Project, in the December 1988 issue.

Provides an update on the field of U.S. history research as of September 1983. Award won by Lacy K. Ford of the University of South Carolina; Micropublication of the Records of the Harmony Society, 1786-1951 of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Suggested information resources on American history.

Relates historical method to archival practice and offers a genetic model for understanding primary sources as products of activity. Understanding of an evolving system of repositories and archival finding aids; Framework for identifying and locating evidence; Helping historians teach search method; Research resources and means of using them.

Examines the oral history of the American Left, an oral history archive devoted to radicalism. Topical areas which is the focus of the collection; Highlights of the interviews on different groups of people across the spectrum of anarchist, socialist and Communist attachments; Information on the difficulties that are present in interviews with the radicals.

Focuses on the significance of having records of the histories of American Indian communities through local agencies. Categories of most of the literature in the field; Factors that contributed to the interest in the local history of native communities; Collections included in the Kansas City Field Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration; Benefits from agency archives.

Focuses on business oral history in the U.S. Companies in the U.S. that have archives and business oral history projects; Oral history projects that have been conducted by several universities and colleges in the U.S.; Overview of methodological and ethical problems that confront creators and consumers of business oral history.

Presents information on several sources of the oral history of modern science in the U.S. Importance of the oral history of science and scientists; Focus of the first physics oral history and archival projects in 1961; Information included in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Presents a bibliography of articles on different fields. Agriculture; Archives and bibliography; Art and architecture.

Presents a bibliography of published articles on agriculture, archives and bibliography, art and architecture, African Americans, business and economics, civil war and reconstruction, colonial and early national, demography, education, foreign affairs and other issues relating to the U.S.

Presents a list of published articles on American history. "Hydraulic Society in California: An Ecological Interpretation," by Donald Worster; "An Historical Look at Business Archives," by David R. Smith; "The Creator of Bushnell Park," by John Alexopoulos.

A review is presented for the website "Digital Archive Collections at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library," found at http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/digicoll.html.