Research by Subject: History
Library Materials Course Related Materials
Reference Sources
Books: LC Class Number Guide
New Acquisitions
Senior Thesis / Senior Project

Research Guides
Blackboard
Electronic Materials Contacts &Connections
Databases & Indexes
Selected Websites
Alerts
Department Liaison
Bibliographic Instruction
Departmental Home Page

 

Library Materials > Reference Sources
Encyclopedias Bibliographies Citation Manuals

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia articles, written by subject authorities, provide information useful for gaining a basic understanding of a topic and getting started with a research project. Typically, a bibliography, or list, of "classic" books and articles for further research follows each article. Students will find also these encyclopedias useful for brushing up on topics related to their central area of investigation. [Note: See the Research Guides for sources that deal with narrower sub-fields within the discipline.]

Dictionary of American History. Revised edition. New York: Scribner, 1976-1978.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 174 .D52 1976 -- v. 1-8


Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas. Glenn Porter, editor. New York: Scribners, 1980.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HC 103 .E52 -- v.1-3


Encyclopedia of American Political History. Jack P. Greene, editor. New York: Scribners, 1984.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 183 .E5 1984 -- v.1-3

Encyclopedia of American Social History. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams, editors. New York: Scribner; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HN 57 .E58 1993 -- v.1-3

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T Heidler, editors. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E 468 .E53 2000 -- v.1-3

Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. Senior editors, Bruce W. Jentleson, Thomas G. Paterson; prepared under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations; senior consulting editor, Nicholas X. Rizopoulos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997

CALL NUMBER: Ref Ref E 183.7 .E5 1997 -- v.1-4

Great events : 1900-2001. From the editors of Salem Press. Salem Press : Pasadena, California, 2002.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Ref D421 .G627 2002  -- v.1-8

Oxford Reference Online: History. [ Online ] Oxford University Press, 2002. Available: http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s11 (Accessed 3 October 2002).

A searchable and browsable collection of history dictionaries from Oxford University Press including: A Dictionary of British History, The Kings and Queens of Britain, The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, A Dictionary of Political Biography, The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History, The Oxford Guide to the United States Government, and A Dictionary of World History.

Bibliographies

Wells, Robert V.
A Checklist of Primary Sources for Early American History (c. 1492-1815) in Schaffer Library, Union College, Schenectady, NY. [ Online ] Compiled by Robert V. Wells, Department of History, 2002. Available: http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/HSTDEPT/HST116/Wells/colsoc/ (Accessed 19 September 2002).

Shelf list by call number, LC followed by Dewey followed by Gov. Docs., with q and f in order. Not all oversized items or those in Special collections have been noted as such. Where collected works are available, not all individual titles have been noted. The William and Mary Quarterly frequently includes documents in its issues. Completeness not guaranteed.  Manuscript collections in Special Collections may not be included here as they do not appear in the catalog.

Citation Guides and Style Manuals

Style manuals and citations guides illustrate how to cite book, journal, and other research sources, including materials found in online databases and on the Web according to the conventional format of a particular discipline. Subject-specific citation guides are listed below, and a complete listing appears at Reference Sites: Citation Guides and Style Manuals.

Chicago:  Turabian Style Guide. [ Online ] Available: http://www.bucknell.edu/x11826.xml

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. [ Online ] Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/
Library Materials > Books: LC Class Number Guide
Books in Schaffer Library are arranged by Library of Congress Class number. Class numbers are searchable in the Web Catalog and browsable in the Stacks and Reference Collection.
D 1 - 1075 History (General)
DA 1 - 995 Great Britain
DAW 1001 - 1051 Central Europe
DB 1 - 3150 Austria, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
DC 1 - 947 France
DD 1 - 905 Germany
DE 1 - 100
The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
DF 10 - 951
Greece
DG 11 - 999
Italy
DH 1 - 925
Netherlands (Low Countries)
DJ 1 - 500
Netherlands (Holland)
DJK 1 - 77

Eastern Europe

DK 1 - 973
Soviet Union
DK 4010 - 4800
Poland
DL 1 - 1180
Northern Europe. Scandinavia
DP 1 - 402

Spain

DP 501 - 900 Portugal
DQ 1 - 851 Switzerland
DR 1 - 2285
Balkan Peninsula
DS 1 - 937
Asia
DT 1 - 3415
Africa
DU 1 - 950
Oceania (South Seas)
DX 101 - 301
Gypsies
E 11 - 29
America (General)
E 151 - 740
United States (General)
F 1 - 975
United States local history
F 1001 - 1140
British America. Canada
F 1201 - 1392
Mexico
F 1401 - 1419
Latin America (General)
F 1421 - 1577
Central America
F 1601 - 2191
West Indies
F 2201 - 2239
South America (General)
Browse the Shelves by LC Class Number
Library Materials > New Acquisitions
The New Acquisitions List  (residing on the Library Catalogs page) is generated on the 10th of each month and includes items added to the library's collections for the previous calendar month.

New Acquisitions List ( History ‹ General, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania)

New Acquisitions List (American History)

New Acquisitions List (American History ‹ local, Central America, and South America)

Library Materials > Senior Theses / Senior Project
Microfiche copies of Senior honors theses are maintained in the Library. For details on the Library's theses holdings, formats, access, photocopying restrictions, and searching for a thesis in the online catalog, see How to Find a Union College Thesis.
History Dept. Theses
Course Related Materials > Research Guides

Research Guides supplement the broader Research by Subject pages by focusing on the print and electronic resources that are most useful for a course specific research assignment. For faculty, the Research Guides provide structured access to the Library and Internet resources relevant to their own work or in advising students on their research projects. For students working independently, it serves as a reminder of services and materials offered within the library while at the same time providing a gateway for information available from remote sites.

Currently, the Research Guides in History include:

History 13: U.S. History to the Civil War
History 18: The U.S. Progressive Era
History 22: Civil War and Reconstruction
History 63: Caribbean and Central American History
History 100: Union College
Seminar: The U.S. in the Era of World War One
Seminar: World War II in Asia
Seminar: The Cuban Revolution
Sophomore Research Seminar: African-American Protest Movements
Sophomore Research Seminar: Japanese American Internment During World War Two
Sophomore Research Seminar: The Ottoman Empire
Sophomore Research Seminar: American Slavery
 
Course Related Materials > Blackboard
Faculty using Blackboard are encouraged to incorporate links to Library resources (specifically the Research by Subject pages and the appropriate course-related Research Guides) into the Blackboard course pages. Your Departmental Liaison or Bibliographic Instruction Contacts can assist you.
Electronic Materials > Databases & Indexes
Schaffer Library provides to range of general and subject specific electronic databases. These databases offer full-text access to articles or library holdings information.
Databases & Indexes > History
Electronic Materials > Selected Web Sites

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/
Online access to 7 million digitized primary source items from more than 100 historical collections maintained by the Library of Congress.

Columbia American History Online
http://www.caho.columbia.edu
The information included on CAHO is based on transcripts from 17 e-seminars from four history courses from Columbia University.  Also included is access to supplementary materials that were used along with the seminars.

Documents of Law, History and Diplomacy - Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Provides access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course On The Web
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Developed by American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning, City University of New York, and the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University.  This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.

Library Research Using Primary Sources
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html
The University of California Berkeley Library offers an extremely useful introduction to the subject of incorporating primary source materials into a research project, including an annotated online guide to Primary Sources on the Web.

Making of America
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
"Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology." 

University of Pennslyvania Digital Library Programs & Projects: The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html
An online collection of 17,000 English-language books that is searchable by author, title, and Library of Congress classification number.

University of Virginia Library: Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/index.html
The University of Virginia EText Center holds 10,000 publicly accessible texts, from the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religion, history of science, plus an image collection comprising 164,000 publicly available images including rare books, manuscripts, and book illustrations.

Electronic Materials > News and Alerts
Tools for tracking recently published articles.

History News Network. [ Online ] Available: http://hnn.us/ (Accessed 11 March 2003)
Today's news in historical context. Includes News Abroad, Breaking News, Features, and more.

History News Service (HNS). [ Online ]  Available: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/ (Accessed 11 March 2003)
"Founded in 1996, HNS is an informal syndicate of professional historians who seek to improve the public's understanding of current events by setting these events in their historical contexts.

The New York Times: College > Arts & Humanities > History. [ Online ] The New York Times. Available: http://college.nytimes.com/guests/directory/Arts_&_Humanities/History/ (Accessed 19 September 2002)
Provides full text access to articles of interest to students and teachers of history from The New York Times.

Contacts and Connections
Departmental Liaisons: Tom McFadden & Ellen Fladger
For information on resources, services, collections, and book ordering for your department
Bibliographic Instruction Contact
For information on scheduling course related instruction session or faculty training session
Department Home Page
Blackboard
Created by: Bruce Connolly, Reference Librarian
Return
Created by: Bruce Connolly, Reference Librarian Return