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HI 115 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1997.

Craven, Hamilton. Before Head Start. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Eisen, Arnold M. The Chosen People in America. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1983.

Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I. Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 1997.

Jones, Charles A. The Presidency in a Separated System. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 1994.

Pope, S.W. Patriotic Games. New York : Oxford University Press (US), 1997.

Progressivism and the New Democracy. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Richardson, Theresa R. The Century of the Child. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1989.

Robinson, Lillian S. In the Canon's Mouth. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997.

Rosteck, Thomas. See It Now Confronts McCarthyism. Tucaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Sturken, Marita. Tangled Memories. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.

Wang, Jessica. American Science in an Age of Anxiety. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Yamamoto, Eric K. Interracial Justice. New York : New York University Press, 1999.

 

Periodical Databases
 

EBSCO Database (password required)

  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database.
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

Databases of Interest to History

Academic Universe and Congressional Universe: Guided News Search from Lexis-Nexis. (password required)

American History and Life -- Index to articles on Canada and the United States from prehistory to the present. (On-campus access only)

American National Biography Online -- offers profiles of more than 18,000 individuals. No password required.

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Amter, Joseph A.
Vietnam verdict: a citizen's history.
New York: Continuum, 1982. DS558 .A48 1982

Banner, Lois W.
Women in modern America: a brief history.
Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1995. HQ1419 .B35 1995

Blanchard, Margaret A.
Revolutionary sparks: freedom of expression in modern America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. JC599.U5 B553 1992

Branch, Taylor.
Parting the waters: America in the King years, 1954-63.
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1988. E185.61 .B7914 1988

Brogan, D.W.
The era of Franklin D. Roosevelt; a chronicle of the New Deal and global war.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950. E173 .C55 v.52

Cayton, Mary Kupiec.
Encyclopedia of American social history.
New York: Scribner, 1993. HN 57 .E58 1993, Ref.

Gitlin, Todd. The sixties: years of hope, days of rage.
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1987. E841 .G57 1987

Goldman, Eric Frederick.
The crucial decade -- and after : America, 1945-60.
New York: Vintage Books, [1961]. E813 .G6 1961

Harris, Mark Jonathan.
The Homefront: America during World War II.
New York: Putnam, c1984. E806 .H64 1984

Higham, John.
Send these to me: immigrants in urban America.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984. E184.A1 H49 1984

Jones, Robert Huhn.
Disrupted decades; the Civil War and Reconstruction years.
New York: Scribner, [1973]. E415.7 .J72 1973

Lord, Walter. The good years: from 1900 to the First World War.
New York: Harper, [1960]. E756 .L68

Meier, August.
The making of black America; essays in Negro life & history.
New York: Atheneum, 1969. E185 .M43

Schlesinger, Arthur Meier.
A History of American life.
New York: Macmillan, c1927-1948. E169.1 .H67

Shachtman, Tom.
Decade of shocks: Dallas to Watergate, 1963-1974.
New York: Poseidon Press, c1983. E839 .S23 1983

Terkel, Studs.
Hard times; an oral history of the great depression.
New York: Pantheon Books, [1970]. E806 .T45

Zinn, Howard.
The twentieth century, a people's history.
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. E741 .Z55 1984

 

Selected Websites

 

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