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UNITED STATES HISTORY: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

KCMA Online Catalog

Useful LC SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:
United States--discovery and exploration
Indians of North America
Pilgrims--New Plymouth Colony
United States--history
United States--history--Colonial Period 1600-1775
United States--Declaration of Independence
United States--history--Confederation 1783-1789
United States--history--Revolution 1775-1783
Constitutional history--United States
Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806
United States--history--War of 1812
Slavery--United States
United States--history--Mexican War 1846-1848
United States--history--Civil War 1861-1865
Confederate States of America
Reconstruction
Spanish American War 1898
World War 1914-1918
Women's suffrage
Prohibition--United States
Social Reformers--United States
Depression 1929
New Deal 1933-1939
World War 1939-1945
Korean War 1950-1953
Cold War
Civil Rights Movement
Vietnamese Conflict 1961-1975
Persian Gulf War
 
Washington George 1732-1799
Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826
Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790
Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
Grant Ulysses S Ulysses Simpson 1822-1825
Lee Robert E Robert Edward 1807-1870
Davis Jefferson 1808-1889
Roosevelt Theodore 1858-1919
Wilson Woodrow 1856-1924
Roosevelt Franklin D Franklin Delano 1882-1945
Truman Harry S 1884-1972
Eisenhower Dwight D dwight David 1890-1969
Kennedy John F John Fitzgerald 1917-1963
Nixon Richard M Richard Milhous 1913
 

Useful LC CALL NUMBERS on this subject:
D501-680World War IE456-459Lincoln's Administration
D731-838World War IIE461-655The Civil War
E75-99Indians of North AmericaE668The Reconstruction
E101-135Discovery and Exploration of AmericaE714-735War of 1898 (Spanish American War)
E186-199Colonial History (1600-1775)E756-760Theodore Roosevelt's Administration
E201-298The Revolution (1775-1783)E766-783Wilson's Administration
E303-3091775-1789; The ConfederationE806-812FDR's Administration
E311-320Washington's AdministrationE839.8Un-American Activities
E331-337Jefferson's AdministrationE841-843Kennedy's Administration
E381-385Jackson's AdministrationE855-861Nixon's Administration
E441-453Slavery in the United States

OhioLINK Central Catalog

Provides access to the holdings of all OhioLINK member libaries

REFERENCE RESOURCES

R BL2525 .Q44 2001Encyclopedia of American religious history
R E174 .D52 2003Dictionary of American History
R E174 .R43 1991The Reader's Companion to American history
R E174.5 .G753 1999The American years : a Chronology of United States History
R E302.5 .W35 2004Birth of the Bill of Rights: Encyclopedia of Antifederalists
R E467 E53 2000Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies
R E740.7 E53 1996Encyclopedia of the Untied States in the Twentieth Century

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PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES


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America: History and Life
Index to articles on the history of the US and Canada from prehistory to the present
Arts and Humanitites and Social Science Citation Indexes
Citations and cited references from over 1100 arts and humanities journals and 1700 journals in the social sciences
Electronic Journals Center
Full-text indexing service for over 2000 online scholarly and research journals
HarpWeek
Page images and indexes to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, with links to full text.
Humanitites Internatinal Complete
provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities
Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering a wide variety of academic areas of study
Periodicals on TOPICS available in the KCMA library
American Heritage
Current History
Periodicals available through the Electronic Journal Center
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American Quarterly
Civil War History
Early American Studies
Journal of American Ethnic History
Journal of American Studies
Reviews in American History
Journals with a focus on History of Medicine
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Social History of Medicine
Periodicals available through Academic Search Premier Other OhioLINK Resources on topics in United States history
American Historical Review
The Early America Review
History Now
Journal of American Studies

INTERNET RESOURCES ON THIS TOPIC
Below are some related sites on the World Wide Web:
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
A comprehenvise site to maintained by the Library of Congress to provide free and open access to a variety of materials on the American experience.

American Women's History
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
An outstanding research guide providing access to mix of free and proprietary resources on women in US history

Best of History Websites: US History
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory.shtml
Provides a list of the top rated websites for US History

The E Pluribus Unum Project
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/
This site provides access to resources that investigate how Americans have sought to make "one from many"

LII: United States History Topics
http://search.lii.org/index.jsp?sm=fr8%3BSubTopic44%3B00http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lii.org%2Fia%2Fdata%2Fdemo1%2Ftopic%2310821%3BUnited+States+History

Best Information on the Net: American History
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/history/hisame.htm

BUBL Links: History of North America
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=11380

Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/8/index-e.html

Chronical of the Revolution
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

The Decisive Day Is Come: The Battle for Bunker Hill
http://www.masshist.org/bh
A comprehensive history of the Battle of Bunker Hill

The American Civil War Home Page
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/