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Subject Guides
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Selected
Books in the Library
The Library's online catalog is available by following the
link to our
catalog. To locate history related resources within
the Library, try subject or title searches with the following terms:
- Biography
- Government
- History
- Politics
A few of the books in the Library's collection
that relate to history are listed below.
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
(E302.6 .F7 .A2 1996) - In Retrospect: The
Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
(DS558 .M44 1995)
- Profiles in Courage
(E176 .K4
1991) - Robert Kennedy and His Times
(E840.8 .K4 .S33 1978) - Woodrow Wilson
and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution
(E768 .L62)
Locating Articles in the Library
Online
Databases
Don't forget to go to the many online databases,
which provide access to articles from journals, magazines, and
newspapers. Some of these articles are provided in full-text, but
others are not. The databases also act as a cumulative index to many of
the journals/magazines available in the Library. COLLEGE ACCESS ONLY
Resources on the Web - General History
Age of Industry
This site provides an organized set of links to web sites covering
different aspects of the Industrial Revolution, organized by categories
(material primarily covers the United Kingdom and the United States);
created and maintained by a teacher at the Evansville-Vanderburgh
School Corp/University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.
TheHistoryNet
by About.com This site is an online subject guide providing
links to Web sites covering 20th Century history, African history,
African-American history, American history, Medieval history, and more.
Internet History
Sourcebooks Project This site provides a collection
of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. Time periods and
areas covered in primary sources include ancient history, Medieval
studies (Medieval and Byzantine), and modern history (European history
beginning at about the Protestant Reformation, and modern civilization
in North and Latin America). Secondary source books cover history of
science, women's history, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transsexual history, and
the histories of African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish
peoples.
Resources on the Web - American History
Abraham Lincoln
Papers The complete papers of Abraham Lincoln are
available at this site, which consists of approximately 20,000
documents. It is presented as a collaboration between the Library of
Congress Manuscripts Division and the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox
College in Galesburg, IL. AmDocs: Documents
for the Study of American History Part of the
Carrie electronic library produced by the University of Kansas, AmDocs
provides links to primary (usually fulltext) American history documents
on the Web covering the period from 1492 to present. It includes
inaugural addresses, diary extracts, treaties, letters, speeches, etc.
American and
British History Resources on the Internet A site
which includes links to reference resources (maps, statistics,
documents, treaties, electronic journals, etc.),
archival & manuscript guides, and history portals.
Links are also arranged by subject or by period. Also
included are links to history associations & listservs,
societies and directories. Additional subpages have been
created on Civil War resources on the internet and African-American
history & culture. The site is created and maintained
by the Library staff at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
American Civil War
This site provides links to information on the Civil War from different
perspectives, such as Civil War slang, recipes and medical remedies
(follow the "Army & Home Life" link); "Colored Troops";
"Prisons and Prisoners"; links to how various groups less visible in
history (e.g., women, Native Americans, Canadians)
were affected by the conflict; plus diaries, letters & memoirs,
archives and more. Maintained avocationally by a professor at Dakota
State University in Madison, SD. The American Civil
War Homepage A wide range of internet resources
about the Civil War are available at this site, which was developed and
is maintained by a professor of history at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. American Indian Studies
This site focuses on American Indian artwork, photographs, videos, and
sound recordings which reflect the history and culture of the Native
American experience in North America. It has more recently been
expanded to include Indian people of the Central America and Mexico;
developed and maintained by a professor of history at California State
University, Long Beach. American Memory:
Historical Collection The American Memory web site
provides access to holdings at the Library of Congress relating to the
history and culture of the United States (see:
Abraham Lincoln Papers, above). Materials available include
photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound and moving
pictures. Currently there are over 90 collections.
Searchable by keyword or title, collections can be listed
alphabetically or alphabetically within subject groups.
Chronology of the
History of Slavery A history preservation project
published by Holt House (an independent research project), the
Chronology is divided into 3 sections: 1619 - 1789; 1790 - 1829; and
1830 - the end. Federalist Papers
The Federalist, commonly referred to as the Federalist Papers, is a
series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James
Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The Papers' intent was to
urge New Yorkers to rectify the proposed United States Constitution,
and they are used today to interpret the intentions of those drafting
the Constitution. They are available here in HTML fulltext from the
Library of Congress' THOMAS project. From Revolution to Reconstruction and What
Happened Afterwards This site provides access to
USIA (United States Information Agency) publications, which have been
augmented with links to relevant documents and other resources;
presented by the Department of Humanities Computing at the University
of Groningen in the Netherlands. Haymarket Affair
This is a Library of Congress site about the confrontation between
Chicago police and labor protesters in 1886 - referred to as the
Haymarket Affair - and includes images of original manuscripts,
photographs, prints, and artifacts. This historical event is extremely
important historical occurrence in the struggle for American workers'
rights. Making of America: American Social History
This site is a joint venture of the University of Michigan and Cornell
University, providing images of primary sources in American Social
history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
New Deal Network
A research resource on the public works and arts projects of the New
Deal, this database contains over 20,000 items which can be searched or
browsed, including photographs, political cartoons, speeches and
letters. Spy Letters of the American Revolution
Materials including letters, transcripts, study guides, biographies,
timelines, annotations and links to related materials on the American
Revolution are available at this site, sponsored by the Clements
Library at the University of Michigan. University of
Virginia Hypertext Project Fulltext access is
available here to more than 50 classic texts like de Tocqueville's Democracy
in America, with links to related text, graphics, and audio
resources that provide context and commentary. Vietnam War
Declassification Project Nearly 30,000 pages of
declassified documents released by the U.S. Government have been made
available here by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in
cooperation with the University of Texas. Words and Deeds in
American History As part of its centennary
celebration, the Library of Congress' Manuscripts Division has selected
about 90 representative documents from American history spanning from
the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, and provided them
for online display. World War I Document Archive
The Archives is international in focus and attempts to present, in one
location, primary documents concerning WWI. It was assembled by
volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L), and is
hosted by Brigham Young University.
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