Title | Call Number |
AHA Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd edition Find some key publications on a topic. | REF D 20 .A55 1995 |
Handbook for Historians (Langdon) History department's guide to history research papers | REF DESK |
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa | REF DT 3 C35 1981 |
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union | REF DK 14 C35 1982 |
*Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean | REF DE C55 1988 |
*Civilizations of the Ancient Near East | REF DS 57 .C55 1995 |
Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution | REF DC 148 .D5313 1989 |
*Dictionary of the Middle Ages | REF D 114 D5 1982 |
*Encyclopedia of the Renaissance | REF CB 361 B43 1987 | /
*Encyclopedia Judaica | REF DS 102.8 E56 |
*Encyclopedia of Asian History | REF DS 31 E53 1987 |
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust | REF D 804.3 .E53 1990 |
Encyclopedia of the Third Reich | REF DD 256.5 S57 |
Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988 | REF DP 192 .H57 1990 |
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | REF DP 269 H54 1982 |
*Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium | REF DF 521 .O93 1991 |
*Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World | REF DS 35.53 .O95 1995 |
*Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation | REF BR 302.8 .O93 1996 |
Victorian Britain | REF DA 550 V53 1988 |
*Fall semester topics: before 1780 Columbus, Christopher--Diaries Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587--Correspondence great britain and history and (sources or documents) Darnley and letters
To locate primary sources in the book collection, search for the following types of exact subject headings or for keywords.Sample topic Sample subject headings Sample word search Columbus' encounters with the Native People America--Discovery & exploration--Sources america and discovery and (sources or diaries) Mary Queen of Scots' marriage as her downfall Great Britain--History-- Stuarts, 1603-1714--Sources Mary Stuart and (correspondence or sources or documents)
Use the online catalog to search by subject heading or keyword. Subject headings are more precise. Keyword searches will retrieve more, but may also retrieve irrelevant items.
"History" is a subheading after a geographic heading (name of a country). A subject heading for the history of a country is then subdivided chronologically. Persons, either individuals or groups, can be subject headings. Topical headings can be anything from an event or movement to an emotion to a disease.
Examples:
Use a periodical index. Most are on the library computer network and available at the library terminals on the first floor. Others are in print form and are available in the index area .
Humanities Index
Historical Abstracts
http://serials.abc-clio.com/cgi-bin/nph-AppStart?_appname=ha
Part A covers topics during 1450-1914.
Part B covers 1915-present.
Religion Index (ATLA)
Background by Ace of Space.