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SUGGESTED LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS:

United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865Amnesty–United States World War, 1939-1945 Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975Sample 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 home front Ref E181 .A453 2005
  • Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.–A.D. 1000: encyclopedia of the Barbarian world Ref D62 .A52 2004
  • Atlas of African-American history and politics : from the slave trade to modern times / Arwin D. Smallwood with Jeffrey M. Elliot. Ref E 185 S574 1998
  • Encyclopedia of African American history, 1619-1895 : from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass
    Ref E185 .E545 2006
  • Encyclopedia of Black studies / edited by Molefi Kete Asante [and] Ama Mazama. Ref E185 .E554 2005
  • 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

STACKS

  • E185 .F825 1969 From slavery to freedom : a history of Negro Americans / John Hope Franklin.
  • E185 .F5915 History of Black Americans / Philip S. Foner.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS / ARCHIVES

  • Special Collections E185.93.T4 B37 Black Texans : a history of Negroes in Texas, 1528-1971 / by Alwyn Barr.
  • Special Collections E185.93.T4 W66 Free Negro in Texas, 1800-1860 : a study in cultural compromise / by George Ruble Woolfolk.

 

HELPFUL WEBSITES

The Avalon Project (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp) at the Yale Law School contains digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government, from pre-18th century to the 20th century.  A Century of Lawmaking  (https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html)for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 is compiled by the Library of Congress.

Constitution of the United States of America : Analysis and Interpretation

Middle Tennessee State University Digital Collections  https://dsi.mtsu.edu/collections

Texas Beyond History: The Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural Heritage https://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.

Foreign Relations of the United States https://search.library.wisc.edu/search/digital

Begins with the administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861. There are two cumulative indexes covering 1861-1899 and 1900-1918. The organization of FRUS is generally chronological, but the dates of the volumes do not necessarily reflect the dates of documentary history. For example, the volumes for 1900-1918 do not include the records dealing with World War I or the Russian Revolution. Each volume has a subject and author index.

Library of Congress Collections https://www.loc.gov/collections/

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.

Political cartoons(https://elections.harpweek.com/), mostly from Harper’s Weekly, Puck, Judge and others about the Presidential elections 1860-1912

RELATED CONGRESSIONAL WEBSITE

Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/: Full text of Congressional bills, guides and links to information on the branches of government.

U.S. House of Representatives https://www.house.gov/

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