United States History Study Guide

This guide provides links to help you create a research strategy for United States History. Knowing which options are available allows you to quickly select those most appropriate for your topic.

To start your research, SCC Library Information Specialists suggest:

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists linked to SCC Library History holdings including the Call Number and Availability for each. Choose from:

• African American
• American Women
• Humanities
• Presidents & Eras
• United States
• Western Civilization

Browsing Guide To Call Numbers

Selected Internet Links. Choose from:

• African American
• American Women
• Centuries
• Decades
• General
• History
• Journals
• Native American
• Presidents
• Western Civilization

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists linked to SCC Library United States History holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each.

Selected American History Subject Headings linked to SCC Library History holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each:

• Boston Tea Party, 1773
• Louisiana Purchase
• United States - Historical geography - Maps
• United States - History - 1933-1945
• United States - History - Chronology
• United States - History - Dictionaries
• United States - History - Encyclopedias
• United States - History - Miscellanea
• United States - History - 1797-1801
• United States - History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

This is a broad subject. To see all subject headings and related subjects, go to LINCC Online Catalog. At "Find," type your subject. Click the drop box after "using" and choose "Subject Browse." Some subjects to type:

Presidents & Eras

• Facts on File library of American history
• Nineteen hundreds (Decade)
• Nineteen tens
• Nineteen twenties
• Nineteen thirties
• Nineteen forties
• Nineteen fifties
• Nineteen sixties
• Nineteen seventies
• Nineteen eighties
• Nineteen nineties
• Our American century
• Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century
• Presidents' spouses - United States - Biography.
• Presidents - United States
• Presidents - United States - Family - History
• Twentieth century
• Twenty-first century
• Two thousand, A.D.
• United States History
• United states history chronology
• United States - History - 20th century
  

Selected History Internet Links

Centuries

• Avalon Project, Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale Law School)
  

Decades

• Decades History Timelines
• Fifties & Sixties Web
• Groovy 70's page
• 1920s (Alameda County Library)
• 1930s  (Alameda County Library)
• 1940s  (Alameda County Library)
• 1950s  (Alameda County Library)
• 1960s  (Alameda County Library)
• 1970s  (Alameda County Library)
• 1980s  (Alameda County Library)
• 1990s  (Alameda County Library)
• Sites that cover more then one decade (Alameda County Library)
• 20th Century Decades US History Resources (Chico High)
• 20th Century American Cultural History (prepared by Kingwood College Library Reference Librarians)
• Sixties British Pop Culture
  

General

• Asian Nation: the L&scape of Asian America
• Colonial Williamsburg 18th-Century Living History Museum
• History Channel
• Normandy 1944 (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Race to Build the Atomic Bomb (Doug Prouty)

History

• American History: 20^th Century (About.com)
• Decades of the 20th Century (Talbot County Public Schools)
• Early America.com (Archiving Early America)
• Early Americas Digital Archive
• The Great War (About.com)
• Greatest Engineering Achievements
• Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
• History (Yahoo)
• History Matters (City University of New York)
• History NetLinks: 20^th Century (About.com)
• History: 20^th Century (About.com)
• Major Events (About.com)
• Photographs (About.com)
• Timeline of the Twentieth Century (About.com)
• 20th Century America (Tracey Oz)
• 20th Century History (About.com)
• Voice of the Shuttle History Page
  

Native American

• American Indian Studies
• American Indians
• American Indians (BUBL)
• Art
• Index of Native American History Resources on the Internet (WWW Virtual Library)
• King Philips War
• Native American Indian (History Link 101)
• Native Americans (About)
• Natives, North American (History Channel)

Presidents

• First Ladies' Gallery (White House)
• Presidents of the United States (White House)
• State of the Union Addresses (Yahoo!)

Browsing Guide To Call Numbers

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