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Subject Guide - U.S. History

Compiled by Carol Satersmoen. Social & Behavioral Sciences Library Liaison. Updated 2006.

Selected Reference Books

ARCH J81 .B99 1896-1902         A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1902

REF E76.2 .A45 1995                American Indians

REF E174.5 .C3 1997                The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates

REF E174 .E53 2003                 Encyclopedia of American History

REF E468 .E53 2000                 Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: a Political, Social and Military History

REF E188 .E63 1990                 The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America

REF E169.1 .E626                     2001 Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century

 

Selected Circulating Books

E173 .V65 2005            Voices of the American Past: Documents in U.S. History

HQ 1410 .C85 2000      Encyclopedia of Women's History in America

E174 .O94 (Loveland)   The Oxford Companion to United States History

F776.5 .W475 2004     Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing

UB418.A47 W75 2002  Soldiers of Freedom: an Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed (Loveland) Forces

E175.85 .L64 2005      Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

DS921.6 .C55 2003     The Secrets of Inchon: the Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War

D769 .S36 2003           World War II

D769.8.A6 J37 2001     Japanese American Internment Camps

E188 .J39 2002            The Colonial Era

E468 .C62 2001           The Civil War: the North

E487 .C57 2001           The Civil War: the South

E275.A2 B87 2001       The American Revolution: an Eyewitness History

E178.3 .D2525 2003    Don't Know Much About American history

 

Full-Text Books Online

NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as Philosophy: The American Revolution, 1774-1783; Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History; The French and Indian War, 1754-1760; Shapers of the Great Debate on Jacksonian Democracy: A Biographical Dictionary; The Antebellum Period; The War of 1812; The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865; The Mexican War, 1846-1848; Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia; Voice of the American West. Volume 1, The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919; Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America; The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society.

Outline of U.S. History

The Amistad Revolt:  A Historical Legacy of Sierra Leone and the United States

The Marshall Plan, Investment in Peace: 50th Anniversary

The Online Books Page

The Harvard Classics and The Shelf of Fiction

 

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

Colorado Heritage
Colorado History Now

The Library’s subscriptions to history journals are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

 

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

Academic Search Premier | Off-Campus Access
Proquest Research Library | Off-Campus Access
American National Biography     |     Off-Campus Access
CQ Researcher     |     Off-Campus Access
Facts on File     |     Off-Campus Access
American History Online      |     Off-Campus Access
Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912
The Journal of American History
The Western Historical Quarterly
The American Historical Review
Common Place
TheHistoryNet.com

 

Other Library Materials

Videos/DVD
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#8-A01 through #8-A13             America

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#9-G29                                      An American Experience

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#5-E20 through #5-E28   T        The Civil War

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#8-B01 through #8-B05            The Real West

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE
#1-F10 and #1-F11, #1-F14     A Walk through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers

VHS E81 .A6 1995                     America's great Indian nations:  Iroquois, Seminoles, Shawnee, Navajo, Cheyenne, Lakota

VHS E449.D75 F735 1994          Frederick Douglass

VHS E185.615 .H47 1994           A history of the civil rights movement

VHS E444 .U53 2003                 Unchained memories: readings from the slave narratives

VHS E93 .W37 1996                  The War against the Indians


 

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

 

Selected Web Resources

American Memory
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
Colorado Digitization Project
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
Digitized Primary American History Sources
Education Place
From Revolution to Reconstruction
The History Place
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Making of America
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ and
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade: Sources of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West
University of Oklahoma – College of Law 
WWW-VL: History: United States

 

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

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Digital History

History of the American West, 1860-1920:  Photos from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
History and Politics Outloud
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Voices of the Colorado Plateau

Other Library Catalogs

Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified Catalog
University of Northern College Library Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance Library Distric

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