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Reference Books

Subject specific encyclopedias and general reference works can help you get started with research. Most are on the overnight reserve cart.

303.48/AME

American Social Reform Movements: Almanac, Biographies, Primary Sources (4 vols.)       

303.483/ JOH How We Got to Now: Six Innovations the Made the Modern World

303.484/ENC

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements  (4 vols.)

304.873/DAN American Immigration
304.873/IMM Immigration in U.S. History (2 vols.)

304.873/ISS

Issues in U.S. Immigration (2 vols.)

304.873/US U.S. Immigration and Migration: Almanac, Biographies, Primary Sources (4 vols.)

305.4/HIS

History of Women in the United States (4 vols.)

305.42/SIG

Laborers for Liberty: American Women, 1865-1890

322.4/BRI Political and Social Movements

323.1/GRE

Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights (2 vols.)

323.173/ENG

American Civil Rights: Almanac, Biographies, Primary Sources (4 vols.)

330.973/IND

The Industrial Revolution in America: Iron and Steel
330.973/IND The Industrial Revolution in America: Railroads
330.973/IND The Industrial Revolution in America: Steam Ships

338.0973/HIS

Historical Encyclopedia of American Business

361.97303/SOC

Social Issues in America (7vols.)

609.2/EVA They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine
609.73/IER Wondrous Contrivances: The Technology at the Threshold
609.73/KLE The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America

909.81/GRE

Great Events from History: The 19th Century (eBook also on Salem)

909.825/GRE Great Events from History: The 20th Century (eBook also on Salem)
973.8/AME Development of the Industrial United States 1878-1899
973.915/NIN The 1920s (eBook also on Salem)

973/ANN   

Annals of America  (Primary Source)

973/MIL Milestone Documents in American History  (Primary Source) (3 vols.)

973.03/DIC 

Dictionary of American History (10vols.)

973.03/ENC

Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents  (Primary source)

973.03/ENC

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century

973.8/ENC

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era (3 vols.)

973.8/GIL

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Almanac, Biographies, and Primary Sources (3 vols.)

973.8/JAY The Progressive Era 
973.8/REC Reconstruction Era: People and Perspectives
973.8/REC Reconstruction Era: Almanac, Biographies, Primary Sources (3 vols.)
973.91/STR The Roaring Twenties

973.92/AME

American Decades & American Decades Primary Sources

 

Primary Sources

To locate primary source material in the Carlos Library book collection, go to the Online Catalog.  Type in Primary Sourceclick on Keyword, click on the Sort by arrow and choose Call number.  Then click on Go.  Many of the primary sources for U.S. history have 973 call numbers.

For additional information on primary sources, see: WA Primary Source LibGuide

Reference Books