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Subject Guides
History Resources
 
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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)
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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

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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.

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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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