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Library Subject Guide—United States History
Compiled by Carol Satersmoen. Social Sciences Librarian Liaison. Updated June 2011.
Selected Web Resources
Selected Statistical Resources
Historical Census Browser (1790-1960)
Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 1990
Statistical Abstracts (1878-present)
Statistical Abstract: Historical Statistics
Selected Online Images and Other Media
Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals
The Library's subscriptions to magazines that are of interest to our U.S. History students are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)
Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
Often the Library's subscription includes access to online versions. Please contact the library staff at 339-6458 if a username, password or subscriber number is needed to access the online materials.
Colorado Heritage
Colorado History Now
National Geographic
Smithsonian
Full-Text Books Online
NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as Prehistoric warfare in the American Southwest; The American Revolution, 1774-1783; Encyclopedia of tariffs and trade in U.S. history; Colonies and revolution; The French and Indian War, 1754-1760; Army and Empire: British soldiers on the American frontier, 1758-1775; Origins of the Bill of Rights; The War for Independence and the transformation of American society; The War of 1812; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Wars within war: Mexican guerrillas, domestic elites, and the United States of America, 1846-1848; The Mexican War, 1846-1848; The Antebellum Period; The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865; Women during the Civil War: an encyclopedia; The great silent army of abolitionism; Voice of the American West. Volume 1, The Indian interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919.
Selected Books
| REF E174.E53 2003 |
Encyclopedia of American history |
| REF E169.1.E626 2001 |
Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century |
| REF E468.E53 2000 |
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: a political, social and military history |
| E61.M266 2005 |
1491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus |
| E99.P9 F74 2005 |
People of Chaco: a canyon and its culture |
| E173.V65 2005 |
Voices of the American past: documents in U.S. history |
| E175.85.L64 2008 |
Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong |
| E178.D39 2008 |
America's hidden history: untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation |
| E178.3.D2525 2003 |
Don't know much about history |
| E179.5.B63 2001 |
Westward expansion: a history of the American frontier |
| E188.J39 2002 |
The Colonial era: an eyewitness history |
| E199.B89 2002 |
Redcoats: the British soldier and war in the Americas, 1755-1763 |
| E208.M396 2006 |
1776 |
| E275.A2 B87 2001 |
The American Revolution: an eyewitness history |
| E301.P87 2004 |
The early national period |
| E302.1.E44 2007 |
American creation: triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic |
| E468.C62 2001 |
The Civil War: the North |
| E487.C57 2001 |
The Civil War: the South |
| E661.J395 2005 |
The Progressive Era |
| E806.B9 2005 |
The Great Depression |
| F592.4 2007 |
Lewis and Clark through Indian eyes |
| F776.5.W475 2004 |
Western voices: 125 years of Colorado writing |
| F799.K378 2008 |
Pueblos, Spaniards, and the kingdom of New Mexico |
| HD 1525.W54 2007 |
White gold laborers: the Spanish Colony of Greeley, Colorado |
| JK216.T713 2003 |
Democracy in America: and Two essays on America |
Other Library Materials
Video/DVD
| DVD E 111 .M34 2007 |
Magnificent voyage of Christopher Columbus |
| DVD E 199 .W37 2006 |
The war that made America |
| DVD E 302.5 .F68 2002 v.1 & 2 |
Founding brothers |
| VHS E81 .A6 1995 |
America's great Indian nations: Iroquois, Seminoles, Shawnee, Navajo, |
| VHS E449.D75 F735 1994 |
Frederick Douglass |
| VHS E444 .U53 2003 |
Unchained memories: readings from the slave narratives |
Searching the Library Catalog
The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu, provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:
United States -- History; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Slavery -- United States -- History; Indians of North America -- History; Indians, Treatment of -- North America; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; History, 19th Century -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Colorado -- History; Battles
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