| Subject Guide for History |
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Locating History information at LATTC Library.
See the suggested Subject Headings below for searching books; E-books; Research Databases for journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; and internet sites.
Subject Headings
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Abolitionists
African Americans--History
Ancient history
Antislavery movements--United States
African American abolitionists
Central America History
Civil rights movements--United States
Civilization
Civilization, Ancient
Civilization, Classical
Civilization, Modern
Civilization, Western
Civilization—History
Europe History
History
History, Modern
Mexican Americans --California
Mexican Americans --Civil rights
Mexican Americans--History
Mexico History
Middle Ages
Renaissance
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United States--History
United States--History--17th century
United States--History--18th century
United States--History--19th century
United States--History--20th century
United States--History --1809-1817
United States--History--1815-1861
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789
United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809
United States--History--1783-1865
United States--History--1865-1898
United States--History--1901-1953
United States--History--1913-1921
United States--History--1933-1945
United States--History--1945-
United States--Politics and government
Women--United States--History
World history
World politics |
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Research Databases
Find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; research reports; image sources; primary documents; specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, and more.
Academic OneFile
Full-text articles from scholarly ( peer-reviewed) journals and reference sources.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Multi-subject virtual reference sources including multi-volume encyclopedias, dictionaries, and specialized reference sources.
General OneFile
Full-text articles from magazines, journals, news and reference sources, and multimedia materials including pod casts and audio files.
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Select Reference Books
| TITLE
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Call Number |
| Creating Black Americans : African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present. |
REF
973.0496 Pai |
| Encyclopedia of the Mexican American civil rights movement. |
REF 305.86872073 Mei |
| Facts about the presidents. |
REF 973.09 Fac |
| The handy politics answer book. |
REF 973 Mis |
| Major problems in American women's history : documents and essays. |
REF 305.40973 Maj |
| Routledge historical atlas of the American South. |
REF
912.75 Fra |
Select Reserve Books
| TITLE
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Call Number |
| 50 American revolutions you're not supposed to know. |
Reserve Desk 973 Zez |
A glorious defeat : Mexico and its war with the United States. |
Reserve Desk 973.62 Hen |
| Chicano! : the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement. |
Reserve Desk 973.0496073 Ros |
Collecting African American history : a celebration of America's black heritage through documents, artifacts, and collectibles. |
Reserve Desk 973.0496073 Mon |
| Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. |
Reserve Desk 973.46 Ken |
| My soul is a witness : a chronology of the civil rights era 1954-1965. |
Reserve Desk 973.0496073 Col |
Select Circulating Books
| TITLE
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Call Number |
| 1863 : the rebirth of a nation. |
973.7 Ste |
All the daring of the soldier : women of the Civil War armies. |
973.7082 Leo |
| America 's constitution : a biography. |
342.7302 Ama |
| Daily life in Civil War America. |
973.71 Vol |
| Final freedom : the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. |
973.714 Vor |
| Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848. |
973.62 Whe |
Select E-books
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Call Number |
| The African American years [electronic resource]. |
Electronic Book |
| Dictionary of American history [electronic resource]. |
Electronic Book |
| Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history [electronic resource] : the Black experience in the Americas. |
Electronic Book |
| Encyclopedia of the American Revolution [electronic resource] : library of military history. |
Electronic Book |
| Encyclopedia of the Great Depression [electronic resource]. |
Electronic Book |
| The presidents [electronic resource] : a reference history. |
Electronic Book |
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Select Internet Sites
United States History
American Memory Timeline http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/
Primary source documents including images, letters, lyrics, interviews, and more, covering United States history 1783-1968. "The primary source excerpts were chosen because they deal with important and interesting topics in U.S. history. Each excerpt is linked to the complete primary source in American Memory from which is has been drawn. " From the Library of Congress.
History Online http://www.connerprairie.org/discover_learn/historyonline
Covers 19th century American history in the Midwest, offering images, articles and primary source documents. From the Conner Prairie Historical Museum in Indiana.
Calisphere http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
"Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history."
World History
History Mole http://www.historymole.com/
"Explore historical timelines from anywhere in history, showing events from the last two thousand years, with links to many other detailed sources."
Timeline Index http://www.timelineindex.com/
This web site provides links to events from world history in a chronological timeline searchable in categories of people, periods, places and events.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
"The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
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