History

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All other titles = off campus by HCPL & Lone Star College System library card holders

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Selected U.S. History Reference Books

REF 973.92 Ame - American Decades
REF 973.003 Ame - The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History
REF 973.03 Ame - The American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience
REF 970.1 Wal - Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900
REF 973.03 Dic - Dictionary of American History
REF 973.02 Car - Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates
REF 973 Enc - Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies
REF 973.099 Kan - Facts about the Presidents: A Compilation of Biographical and Historical Information
REF 970 Hom - The Penguin Historical Atlas of North America
REF 973.02 Gro - This Day in American History
REF 973.02 Tim - Timetables of American History
REF 909.82 Twe - 20th Century Day by Day

• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library from the Library of Congress - features multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text
• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - includes digitized documents on history, law, and government by time period
• Making of America from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service - provides "primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction"
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Historical Maps of the United States from the University of Texas @ Austin - features digitized maps from all time periods in U.S. History
• 20th Century from CNN features biographies, headlines, and inventions.
• U.S. National Archives & Records Administration Exhibit Hall - view extensive online exhibits and featured documents such as the Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment