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UNITED STATES HISTORY: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

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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:

D501-680	World War I	E456-459	Lincoln's Administration
D731-838	World War II	E461-655	The Civil War
E75-99	Indians of North America	E668	The Reconstruction
E101-135	Discovery and Exploration of America	E714-735	War of 1898 (Spanish American War)
E186-199	Colonial History (1600-1775)	E756-760	Theodore Roosevelt's Administration
E201-298	The Revolution (1775-1783)	E766-783	Wilson's Administration
E303-309	1775-1789; The Confederation	E806-812	FDR's Administration
E311-320	Washington's Administration	E839.8	Un-American Activities
E331-337	Jefferson's Administration	E841-843	Kennedy's Administration
E381-385	Jackson's Administration	E855-861	Nixon's Administration
E441-453	Slavery in the United States

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OhioLINK Electronic Book Collection: American History

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REFERENCE RESOURCES

	E-Book		Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies That Defined America
	E-Book		Constitutional Amendments: From Freedom of Speech to Flag Burning
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of American Indian History
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the American Civil War
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the Korean American War
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the Mexican American War
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of the War of 1812
	E-Book		Encyclopedia of World War II
	E-Book		Gale Encyclopedia of US History: Government and Politics
	E-Book		Gale Encyclopedia of US History: War
	E-Book		Gale Library of Daily Life: American Civil War
	E-Book		Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America
	E-Book		A History of the U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
	E-Book		History of World War I
	E-Book		History of World War II
	E-Book		Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia
	E-Book		Personal Perspectives: World War I
	E-Book		Personal Perspectives: World War II
	E-Book		Social History of the United States
	E-Book		Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America
	E-Book		World War I: A Student Encyclopedia
	E-Book		World War I: An Encyclopedia
	E-Book		World War II: A Student Encyclopedia
	R E174 .D52 2003		Dictionary of American History
	R E174 .R43 1991		The Reader's Companion to American history
	R E174.5 .G753 1999		The American years : a Chronology of United States History
	R E302.5 .W35 2004		Birth of the Bill of Rights: Encyclopedia of Antifederalists
	R E467 E53 2000		Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies
	R E740.7 E53 1996		Encyclopedia of the Untied States in the Twentieth Century

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PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES

Periodicals available in the KC library

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 available in the KC library

American Heritage

Current History

Periodicals available through the Electronic Journal Center: 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: American Historical Review; American History; Journal of American History; Reviews in American History

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.
Discovering American Women's History Online: http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/women
Provides access to digital collections of primary sources that document the history of women in the United States.
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"
Internet Public Library: United States History Topics: http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&cid=1&tid=6962&parent=6958
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
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/