LIBRARY GUIDE TO HISTORY RESOURCES

For history related internet resources use the following links :

• GLOBAL STUDIES
• GOVERNMENT
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• SOCIAL SCIENCE
• WOMEN / GENDER STUDIES

PRINT RESOURCES

*** Additional books can be found in the same sections of the stacks and on-line via NetLibrary ***

U.S. History General | U.S. Women's History | Global Perspectives

SAMPLE BOOKS - U.S. History General

DICTIONARIES

• Dictionary of American history Reference E174 .D52 1976
• Dictionary of American history : with the complete text of the Constitution of the United States E174 .M3 1978

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Historical times illustrated encyclopedia of the Civil War Reference E468 .H57 1986
• Encyclopedia of American social history Reference HN57 .E58 1993
• Jewish-American history and culture : an encyclopedia Reference E184.J5 J48 1992
• The encyclopedia of American facts and dates E174.5 .C3 1979
• The encyclopedia of women's history in America HQ1410 .C85 1996
• Civil rights in the United States Reference E184.A1 C47 2000
• Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America. Primary documents Reference E184 .A1 G15 2000
• Historical encyclopedia of American labor Reference HD8066 .H57 2004
• Poverty in the United States : an encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy Reference HC110.P6 P598 2004
• Encyclopedia of American foreign policy Reference E183.7. H28 2003
• The broken promises of America at home and abroad, past and present : an encyclopedia for our times E174.C68 2004
• Encyclopedia of American history Reference E174. E53 2002
• France and the Americas : culture, politics, and history : a multidisciplinary encyclopledia Reference E18.75 .F73 2005
• Britain and the Americas : culture, politics, and history : a multidisciplinary encyclopedia Reference E18.75 .B75 2005

ATLASES

• Atlas of American history Reference G1201 .S1 R1 1993
• A battlefield atlas of the American Revolution E230.S96 1986

ALMANACS OF AMERICAN LIFE

• Cold War America, 1946 to 1990 Reference E741. G75 2003
• Colonial America to 1763 Reference E188 .P86 1999
• Victorian America, 1876 to 1913 Reference E168 .S55 1996
• Modern America, 1914 to 1945 Reference E766 .G74 1995
• Revolutionary America, 1763 to 1800 Reference E162 .P86 1994

U.S. History General | U.S. Women's History | Global Perspectives

SAMPLE BOOKS - U.S. Women's History

CIRCULATING COLLECTION

• Women and power in American history : a reader HQ1410 .W643 1991
• Through women's eyes : an American history with documents E178.1 .D84 2005
• America's women : four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines HQ1410 C.588 2004
• Freedom's daughters : the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 E185 .O43 2002
• No small courage : a history of women in the United States HQ1410 .N6 2000
• The reader's companion to U.S. women's history HQ1410 .R43 1998
• Southern women in revolution, 1776-1800 : personal and political narratives E276 .K54 1998
• The encyclopedia of women's history in America HQ1410 .C85 1996
• Herstory : women who changed the world HQ1121 .H47 1995
• From parlor to prison : five American suffragists talk about their lives JK1896 .F76 1985
• Pioneer women : voices from the Kansas frontier HQ1438.K2 S77
• We were there : the story of working women in America HD6095 .W47 1977

REFERENCE COLLECTION

• Women in world history : a biographical encyclopedia Reference HQ1115 .W6 1999
• Contemporary American women poets : an A-to-Z guide Reference PS151 .C665 2002
• Handbook of American women's history Reference HQ1410 .H36 1990
• Frontier women : the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 HQ1438.W45 J43 1979

U.S. History General | U.S. Women's History | Global Perspectives

SAMPLE BOOKS - Global Perspectives

CIRCULATING COLLECTION

• Globalization JZ1318 .G57862 2006
• The limits of global governance JZ1318 .W485 2005
• Worlds apart : measuring international and global inequality HC79015 M55 2005
• The checkbook and the cruise missile : conversations with Arundhati Roy JZ1318 .B366 2004
• Women and globalization HQ1240 .W652 2004
• In defense of globalization HF1359 .B499 2004
• An ordinary person's guide to empire E902 .R696 2004
• Globalization, export-oriented employment, and social policy : gendered connections HD6053.G57 2004
• Globalizing democracy and human rights JC423 .G663 2004
• Global backlash : citizen initiatives for a just world economy HF1359 .G566 2002
• Governing globalization : power, authority, and global governance JZ1318 .G685 2002
• Open society : reforming global capitalism HB3722 .S67 2000
• Taking sides : clashing views in world history H61.T356 W67 2006
• The earth and its peoples : a global history D21 .E17 2003
• Encyclopedia of world history D21 .E577 1998
• War JZ6385 .W365 2006
• Sustainable planet : solutions for the twenty-first century HQ2042 .S88 2002
• Demystifying the global economy : a guide for students HC54 .O26 2002

REFERENCE COLLECTION

• A future perfect : the essentials of globalization Reference HC59.15 .M53 2000
• The Encyclopedia of world history : ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged Reference D21 .E578 2001
• Atlas of world history Reference G1030 .O85 1999
• Political handbook of the world Reference JF1411.158 1999
• Encyclopedia of international relations and global politics Reference JZ1160. E53 2005
• The Europa world year book 2004 Reference D206.E85 2004
• Encyclopedia of government and politics Reference JA61 .C66 2004
• The statesman's yearbook 2004 : the politics, cultures and economies of the world Reference JA51 .S73 2004  

(*** Database can only be accessed at library or remotely with passwords that are available for current Berkeley City College students staff or faculty ***)

For a complete list of the databases available to current Berkeley City College students staff or faculty click on the following link: DATABASES

• CountryWatch : Provides full text up-to-date news and information on 192 countries of the world. It features current and in-depth cultural, political, economic, corporate, environmental, and other education-related issues through journal articles, newspapers, speeches, conference proceeding, research, and etc.
  
• CQ Researcher : Offers  in-depth coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica : All the articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  
• Ethnic NewsWatch : Covers current issues and events discussed from the viewpoints and perspectives of various ethnic groups and races.
  
• Expanded Academic ASAP : Provides access to a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others.
  
• Gale's Discovering Collection : A comprehensive database of reference content for the areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.  When performing a "History Search," search results can be limited to Era, Event, or Topic Overviews as well as Biographies or Primary Documents.
  
• LexisNexis : Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. LexisNexis provides authoritative legal, news, public records and business information; including tax and regulatory publications in online, print or CD-ROM formats.
  
• NetLibrary : Provides digital full-text access to over 8,000 books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction.
  
• NewsBank (Global) : An online program providing expansive coverage of global issues and events from multiple perspectives and diverse primary sources from around the world.
  
• SIRS Researcher : A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications.

SAMPLE SUBJECT HEADINGS

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBERS FOR HISTORY

Browsing the stacks can help you evaluate a library's collection in a given field of study.

The following Library of Congress call number ranges contain works relevant to U.S. / global / Women's political, social, and economic history:

D -- HISTORY (GENERAL) AND HISTORY OF EUROPE

E -- HISTORY: AMERICA

• E 11-143 America

• E 151-889 United States

F -- HISTORY: AMERICA

• F1-975 United States local history

• F1001-1145.2 British America (including Canada) Dutch America

• F1170 French America

• F1201-3799 Latin America. Spanish America

RELATED SUBJECTS

G -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION

H -- SOCIAL SCIENCES

• HA: Statistics

• HB: Economics

• HC: Economic History by Region

• HD: Economic History and Conditions

• HE: Transportation and Communications

• HF: Business

• HG: Finance

• HM: Sociology

• HQ: Women's Studies, Social Groups

• HT: Class, Race

• HV: Social and Public Welfare, Criminology

J -- POLITICAL SCIENCE

• J: Political Theory. Government.

• JC: Political Theory

• JF: Constitutional History and Administration

• JS: Local Government

• JX: International Relations

Sample Subject Headings / Search Terms for: U.S. History General | U.S. Women's History | Global Perspectives

The following subject headings and terms can be useful search terms in many of the databases including the library catalog. The lists are by no means complete lists of subject headings related to history. Additional subject headings can found using the Library of Congress Subject Headings books located in the reference stacks [Z695.Z8 L524 ]. If additional help is needed, please ask a librarian.

U.S. History General | U.S. Women's History | Global Perspectives

SUBJECT HEADINGS - U.S. History General

For a broad search, try using the subject heading "United States History" and browse the results.
Or add specific time periods, subdivisions such as:

United States History Colonial Period

or

• Civil War

• Philosophy

• Pictoral works

• Revolution, 1775-1783

• 19th Century

• 20th Century

• Popular culture

For ethnic or gender studies use subject headings such as:

• African Americans History

• Women United States History

• Indians of North America History

Some sample related subjects include:

• America Discovery and exploration

• America Early accounts to 1600

• America History

• American loyalists

• Mexican War 1846 1848

• New Deal

• Reconstruction

• Slavery United States History

• United States Foreign economic policy

• United States Foreign relations

• United States Historical geography Maps

• United States Historiography

• United States Economic conditions

• United States Politics and government

• United States Social conditions

• United States Social life and customs

U.S. History General | U.S. Women's History | Global Perspectives

SUBJECT HEADINGS - U.S Women's History

If you search the Library's online catalog for the keywords “women and history” you will find more than 700 hundred entries and may be perfectly satisfied. By limiting your search to subject heading terms, the number of entries you find in the catalog will be smaller and more manageable to browse and the entries should be on the subject you are searching for.

The LC subject heading “Women” can be followed by subdivisions, which can be geographical, topical, chronological, or by form.

• Examples of subdivisions include: United States, Nebraska, History, 19th century, or Biography.

• These can be strung together in a fixed order: Women-United States-Biography or Women-Massachusetts-History.

• Several subdivisions that are particularly useful for locating primary sources are: Sources, Diaries, Narratives, Correspondence, or Interviews.

• The heading “Women” can be followed by an occupation, as in Women poets; Women social reformers; or Women surgeons.

• The phrase “Women in” can be followed by terms such as Women in advertising; Women in computer science; or Women in literature.

• Each of these terms may have subdivisions: Women in mass media United States History 20th century or Women in Judaism United States History

U.S. History General | U.S. Women's History | Global Perspectives

SUBJECT HEADINGS - Global Perspectives