Resources selected to supplement HSTY 201 at TC3.

Introduction

Books in Our Library

• American National Biography [REF CT 213 .A68 1999]
• Annals of America [REF E173 .A793 1968] - Primary Source
• Dictionary of American History [REF E 174 .D52 2003]
• Encyclopedia of American History [REF E 174 .E53 2003]
• Eyewitness to History [REF D5 .E94 1987] - Primary Source
• History of American Life [E178 .H6995 1996]
• Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters [PS672 .L48 1999]
• Major Problems in American Indian History: Documents and Essays [E77.2 .M35 2001]
• This was America: True Accounts of People and Places, Manners and Customs, as Recorded by European Travelers to the Western Shore in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries [E161 .H3] - Primary Source
• Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History [E169.1 .L5374 1993]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Indians of North America
• United States, Civilization, Sources
• United States, Historiography
• United States, History, Sources
• United States, Social Life and Customs

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Other Media

You can request materials from media services, which is located directly across from the library.

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

• American Memory - Library of Congress digital collection of over five million items.
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School - Digital collection of primary documents in the areas of Diplomacy, Economics, Government, History, Law, and Politics in the 18th through the 21st century.
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation - U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875, provided by the Library of Congress.
• Digital History - Primary sources, audio files, video
• Early Americas Digital Archive - "Collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."
• English Short Title Catalog - "Comprehensive, international union catalogue listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed before 1801. It contains catalogue entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States."
• Historical Census Browser - "Data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960."
• In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives - Indexes more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook - A massive, thoroughly indexed library of primary documents and texts.
• Making of America- Extensive digital library of nineteenth century books and journals. This digitization project was undertaken at both the University of Michigan and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Search both collections; the Michigan collection consists of imprints between 1850 and 1877 and "currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." You can browse by subject, author, and title. The Cornell collection, which covers the period of 1840 - 1900, "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles."
• National Portrait Gallery - Database of more than 80,000 online portraits.
• TeachingAmericanHistory.org - Has a Document Library and Audio Lectures and Discussions.
• United States National Archives Administration (NARA) - Links to many primary source documents, organized by topic.

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