Background Information, Biographies & Primary Sources
Books & Videos Available at the Landmark College Library
Databases
Websites/Online Primary Sources
Citations

American History Subject Guide

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Reference area (first floor)

Background Information

• Americans at War -- 973 A5126
  • vol 1: 1500 - 1815
  • vol 2: 1816 - 1900

• Encyclopedia of the American Revolution -- 973.303 AME

Biographies

• American National Biography — 920.073 AME v. 1- 24

• Encyclopedia of the American Presidency -- 353.031303 ENC

• Great Lives from History: American Women Series -- 920.72 GRE

• Great Lives from History: American Series -- 920.073 GRE

• Who Was Who in the American Revolution -- 973.3092 PUR

Primary Sources

• Speeches of American Presidents -- 353.035 POD

• The Complete Bill of Rights -- 342.73 COM

• My Fellow Americans: Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents -- 353.035 M995 (ask for Audio CD at front desk)

• Encyclopedia of Historical Treaties & Alliances -- 341.3709 P558e
  • Vol 1: A New World page 10

• Album of American History -- 973 ALB

• vol 1: Colonial America
• vol 2: 1783-1853
• vol 3: 1853-1893

 

Find Books & Videos at the Landmark College Library

There are hundreds of biographies and autobiographies in the collection.  Search the catalog using the persons name.

Use WebCat to search for other books, ebooks, and films at the Landmark College Library.

Ask a librarian if you need help. 

 

Find Articles

Databases

Issues & Controversies in American History

Articles on the most contentious issues in American history.

• Includes Biographies & Primary documents. 
• Use the Image Gallery to get pictures for your posters.
  

Britannica OnLine

Provides many biographies.

• Search by Last name, First name. Example: Washington, George

 

Newspaper Archive

Tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages dating as far back as the 1700s.

 

Websites

Use the Website Evaluation Checklist to evaluate your web sources.

Primary Source Documents

• Archiving Early America

http://www.earlyamerica.com/

• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents  

http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm

• Hundreds of primary documents from American History. 
• Also see the Biographies & Presidents listings.

• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

• Hundreds of primary documents from American History. 
 

• Chronology of US Historical Documents 

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

• Primary documents from pre-Colonial to the present.

Primary Source Images

• New York Public Library Digital Collection

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

• Browse the collection by Subject or by Name.

• National Archives

http://archives.gov/

• America's Historical Documents
• Charters of Freedom and the Founding Fathers

 

Historical Maps

• Perry Castaneda Library United States Historical Map Collection  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
  • Thousands of historical United States maps online. 

 

Citations

Use the Landmark College Citation Guide

 

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Contact your class librarian Elizabeth Dolinger  extension 1628
Or the Main Desk of the Library extension 1648

 

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