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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.

302.2309/HIS History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia

303.48/AME

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

303.484/ENC

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements  (4 vols.)

303.4840973/GUL Dissent & Protest (1635-2017) Defining Documents (eBook also on Salem)
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.)

305.4097/COT No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States

305.42/SIG

Laborers for Liberty: American Women, 1865-1890

323.1/GRE

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

323.1/WEX The Civil Rights Movement

323.173/ENG

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

327.73/HAS

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

327.73003/HAS Belligerents, Brinkmanship, and the Big Stick: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Diplomatic Concepts

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
331.0973/MAN Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States

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: Two Centuries of Innovators
609.73/KLE The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
624.09/CAD Dreams  of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth Century, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal
909.81/ENC Industrial Revolution: Almanac, Biographies, Primary Sources (4 vols.) 
909.81/FRA Industrial Revolution: A History in Documents 

909.81/GRE

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

909.81/OUT Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution 1700-1920 (2 vols.)
909.825/GRE Great Events from History: The 20th Century (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 (10 vols.)

973.03/ENC

Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents  (Primary source)

973.03/ENC

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century

973.8/AME American Eras: Development of the Industrial United States 1878-1899
973.8/ENC America 1900: The Turning Point

973.8/ENC

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

973.8/GIL

The Gilded Age: 1870 to 1900 ( A Handbook to Life in America series)

973.8/GIL

The Gilded Age: A History in Documents

973.8/GIL

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

973.8/HUS Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900
973.8/JAY The Progressive Era ( Eyewitness History)
973.8/SHR The Gilded Age (American Popular Culture Through History series)
973.91/STR The Roaring Twenties

973.92/AME

American Decades & American Decades Primary Sources- selected decades

973.915/NIN The 1920s (eBook also on Salem)
978/DOE Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional?

978/PEN

Westward Expansion: Almanac, Biographies, Primary Sources (3vols.)

978/WES Westward Expansion: An Eyewitness History

 

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

Subject Specific

Search the catalog with keywords related to your topic to find more subject specific monographs.

Below are just a few examples:

071/COH Yellow Journalism: Scandal, Sensationalism, and Gossip in the Media
322.4209 NEW The Ku Klux Klan: History, Organization, Language, Influence and Activities of America's Most Notorious Secret Society
345.7302/JOH Scopes Monkey Trial
700.89/HIL Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance