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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 District
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