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The library uses the Library of Congress classification system for organizng and shelving books.
Key Areas for Research in History:
C: Auxiliary Sciences of History: |
D: History, General and History of Europe |
E: History, America and the United States |
F: History, United States and |
Basic Reference Resources
| African American Biographical Database | E-Resource |
| Album of American History | Ref E178.5.A48 |
| American National Biography | E-Resource |
| Dictionary of American Biography | Ref E176.D563 |
| Dictionary of American History | Ref E174.A43 1942 |
| An Encyclopedia of World History | Ref D21 L27 1968 |
| Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War | Ref D5 557.7 E54 1998 |
| Historic Documents | Ref E 839.5.H57 |
| The Reader's Companion to American History | Ref E 174.R43 1991 |
Journal Articles and Scholarly Works
| Academic Search Elite | This multidisciplinary database offers full-text for nearly 2050 scholarly journals. Journals from several areas of history are included in this database as well as journals from nearly every academic discipline. |
| America: History and Life | A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals. Full-text is not available. 1964-Present. |
| Education Full-Text | Indexes and abstracts journals and books from a variety of educational areas. Full-text is available from 1996-Present. |
| Humanities Full-Text | Humanities provides indexing and abstracting to 450 periodicals on disciplines including literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology. Full-text articles for over 95 journal titles are available online |
| JSTOR | JSTOR is a digitized archive of major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines, many of which date back to the 1800's. JSTOR contains the backfiles of journals; the most recent volumes are two to five years behind the latest issues, depending upon agreements with the journal publishers. Full-text coverage ranges from the 1800's to 2004. |
| Project Muse | Project Muse offers full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from ten major university presses: Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Indiana, MIT, Oxford, Penn State, Hawaii, Texas, and Wisconsin. |
| Social Sciences Full-Text | Social Sciences indexes and abstracts 520 periodicals. Full-text articles for 162 journal titles are available online. Topics include anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects. |
| Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 | This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the web site seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. |
Primary Sources Online: United States History
| American Civil War Collection | From the University of Virginia Library, this digital collection contains primary sources such as letters, diaries, and newspapers from the Civil War era. |
| American Indian History & Culture | Access to more than a thousand years of American Indian culture, legends, and leaders. More than 150 Native American groups are presented through primary source documents, biographies, historical maps, and photographs. |
| American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement | Contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| American Memory | Includes written documents, sound recordings, still and moving images, oral history, maps, and sheet music that are a part of American history. Topics include advertising, art, African-American history, Native-American history, architecture and landscape, cities and toes, folk life, culture, conservation, immigration, literature, presidents, religion, sports, technology, music, war, and women's history. |
| American Women's History | Provides links to several large primary and secondary source collections pertaining to American women's history. Also contains citations to print and internet reference resources. |
| Art Images for College Teaching | AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. |
| Avalon Project | Contains original documents in law, history, diplomacy, economics, and public policy. Documents span from pre-18th century to the 21st Century. |
| Belgian-American Research Collection | Digital collection of photographs, oral history tapes and abstracts, and select publications from the Belgian American Resource Collection of the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library. |
| Core Documents of U.S. Democracy | A core group of important historical and current government documents. Publications include the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, The Federalist Papers, Gettysburg Address, Congressional Bills, Presidential Inaugurations, Budget of the U.S. Government, Supreme Court decisions, demographic and economic papers, public and private laws, regulatory information, and much more. |
| Documenting the American South | From UNC Chapel Hill, this digital collection contains primary and secondary sources documenting Southern history from colonial times through the first few decades of the 20th Century. Some of the resources in this collection include books, diaries, posters, artifact images, letters, oral history, and songs. |
| Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment | This first release of Early Encounters in North America (EENA) contains approximately 10,250 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. |
| A digital library project of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains access to approximately 9,000 books and 955 serials with 19th century imprints and is made up of two separate online collections from the University of Michigan and Cornell University. | |
| North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories | Contains over 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Covers 1840-present. |
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 | A growing collection of approximately 82,000 pages of women's diaries and letters spanning from Colonial America to 1950. Also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. |
| Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection | From Cornell University, this digital collection contains important pamphlets and leaflets pertaining to the anti-slavery movement on the local, state, and national levels. This collection also holds anti-slavery sermons, position papers, poetry index, and Freedman's testimonies. |
| The Valley of the Shadow | Chronicles the social history of two towns , one northern one southern, from the beginning of the Civil War through the Reconstruction Era. Primary sources include church records, newspapers, speeches, census statistics, and original diaries and journals. |
| WhiteHouseTapes.org | Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties (Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon) secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves. The site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. |
Primary Sources Online: European and World History
| Afghanistan: The Harrison Forman Collection | Digital collection documenting the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the Soviet Union invaded the country. The photographs were taken by Harrison Forman in 1969. The online collection consists of 186 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed at the American Geographical Society Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
| Avalon Project | Contains original documents in law, history, diplomacy, economics, and public policy. The documents span from pre-18th century to the 21st Century. Documents are from all over the world. |
| British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries | British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (BWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 91 women, as revealed in approximately 24,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. Letters date from 1500 to 1900. |
| Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 1543-1945 | This online resource delivers two million page images from the Gerritsen Collection, a collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights spanning four centuries and fifteen languages put together by Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen. |
| Internet Medieval Sourcebook | Provided by Fordham University, this comprehensive database of Medieval historical documents covers topics such as the Roman Church, the Crusades, economic life, the fall of Rome, intellectual life, the Reformation, various historical figures, and more. |
| History of the Crusades | Boasts six history books from the University of Wisconsin Press which cover the very beginnings of the Crusades to the impact they had on Europe and the Near East. |
Writer's Guides
| MLA Handbook | Ref LB 2369.G53 2003 (May be on reserve.) |
| A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations | LB 2369.T8 1973 |
| Writing the Modern Research Paper | LB 2369.D44 1993 |
| Student's Guide for Writing College Papers | LB 2369 T82 1969 |
| University of Nevada, Reno Libraries- Citing Government Information Sources Using MLA Style |
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By Aaron F. Nichols - Public Services Librarian
Created:04/29/05
Last Update: 05/08/06