HISTORY

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Suggested Library of Congress Subject Headings:

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Amnesty--United States
World War, 1939-1945
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

Sample title:  Bloods: an oral history of the Vietnam War / by black veterans: [edited by] Wallace Terry Stanford, California : New York : Ballantine, 1991, c1984. [DS559.5 .B56 1991]

Selected Reference Titles

Americans at war: society, culture, and the homefront
Ref E181 .A453 2005

Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.--A.D. 1000: encyclopedia of the Barbarian world
Ref D62 .A52 2004

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: a political, social, and military history
Ref E468 .E53 2000

Encyclopedia of the Confederacy
Ref E487 .E55 1993

Encyclopedia of prisoners of war and internment
Ref UB800 .E53 2006

Encyclopedia of United States national security
Ref UA23 .E571274 2006

Europe 1450 to 1789: encyclopedia of the early modern world
Ref D209 .E97 2004

Marshall Cavendish illustrated encyclopedia of World War I
Ref D522.5 .M39 1984

Marshall Cavendish illustrated encyclopedia of World War II: an objective, chronological, and comprehensive history of the Second World War
Ref D743.5 .M37 1985

Articles

Accessible through the Library Home Page:
http://www.pvamu.edu/library

Academic Search Premier (early 1970s for some titles - present)
Provides indexing/ abstracts to over 4360 scholarly journals, popular magazines, and journals of commentary. It provides full text access to more than 3,430 publications that cover a wide variety of academic areas of study, including, humanities, education, computer, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
Search or browse early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690 - 1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758 - 1900), Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829 - 1922), Early American Newspapers, Series 4 (1756 - 1922) and Early American Newspapers, Series 5 (1777 - 1922).

Biography Resource Center
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

CQ Electronic Library
CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) is the definitive online reference resource for researching American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. CQEL includes online versions of:   CQ Congress Collection (a data-rich research and reference tool for historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy); CQ Encyclopedia of American Government (concise, up-to-date explanations of the who, how, and why of American democracy. Expert, clearly written articles on contemporary and historical topics); CQ Public Affairs Collection (primary source documents, statistical overviews, contact information, and the very best in-depth reporting on current issues); CQ Researcher (original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner); CQ Supreme Court Collection (blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution); CQ Voting and Elections Collection (data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material for understanding voting and elections in America); CQ Weekly, offering complete coverage of Capitol Hill); and Washington Information Directory Online Edition (a definitive guide to DC information resources). 

Heritage Quest
“HeritageQuest represents the most comprehensive collection of genealogical and local history information available anywhere. In addition to the entire U.S. federal census, HeritageQuest microform products provide vital statistics, military records, special census schedules, ship passenger lists, and much more.”

JSTOR
Includes about 40 journals in history. The database provides an historical coverage usually from the beginning of a periodical title to within five years of the current date. Full text is available.

Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. Provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals, including full text for 245 pamphlets. Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

NewsBank: Covers current events, social, environmental, government and science issues from “… U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts.”

OCLC’s WorldCat
A world-wide catalog of books and other materials in libraries.

Primary Sources in U.S. History
Includes “Primary Sources in African American History.” This database contains speeches, autobiographies, photos, statutes including a “…complete compilation of reported colonial legislative acts pertaining to race and slavery in every colony, as well as every major law passed by the U.S. Congress since 1792 that relates to race or particularly impacts African Americans.”

World History Collection
“World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more.”

Helpful Websites

University of Austin’s Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural History
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/
This website contains information on and images of many different aspects of the cultural legacy of Texas; a legacy spanning at least 13,500 years. They are able “to tell the stories of much of the cultural heritage of Texas [using] mute stones, ancient campfires, broken bones, and delicate traces of once-flourishing societies. This is the "material evidence" upon which archeologists base most of our interpretations.

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Originally student-run and organized, this is a wealth of information. Using the toolbar on the left, hover over ‘arts and humanities,’ and then select ‘history.’ Be sure to look at the ‘reading room’ for newspapers; it’s interesting to see how the rest of the world looks at news.

Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Another scholarly search engine; if you click ‘government information,’ and then search for foreign policy, it takes you to places like the Brookings Institution, Country Indicators on Foreign Policy and CRS Reports on foreign policy. 

Library of Congress American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

Library of Congress Manuscript Division
http://sunsite.unc.edu/lia/president/pres -- home.html
The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest and most comprehensive presidential library, for while the recently built presidential libraries each hold the papers of a single chief executive, the Manuscript Division has in its custody the papers of 23 presidents, including the men who founded the nation, wrote its fundamental documents, and led it through the greatest crisis of its existence.

Related Congressional Websites

THOMAS
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Legislative Information on the Internet (Library of Congress): Full text of Congressional bills, guides and links to information on the branches of government.

U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov
Official home page.

U.S. Senate 
http://www.senate.gov
Official home page.

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ined by Steve Shaw; Last revised 4/3/2008 keh