History is a vast early warning system.
--Norman Cousins

History does not unfold: It piles up.
--Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth





As both a librarian and a working historian, it was almost inevitable that I become a "bibliographer" -- one who compiles lists of resources for the use of others in carrying out research. I've developed and compiled several dozen topical bibliographies over the years, and many of them were published, at least locally or in highly specialized publications. Because of my own reading and research interests, I have continued to maintain a few of them for personal use, and I'm reproducing a couple of those here:

Historical American Migration & Settlement Patterns:
A Selected Bibliography


Basic Published Resources for the American Civil War








And there's the usual miscellaneous stuff, such as:

History with Warts, a more or less true story.




{. . . and there's more to come . . .}


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