History Sources - LSC-CyFair

NOTE:
Titles with below = Lone Star College System college users access off campus with valid college ID/library card number

Access Newspaper Archive (NOTE: on-campus use only)
(NewspaperARCHIVE.com) "View, save and print full-page newspaper pages dating from 1700 to 2006" from over 4000 newspaper titles.

(Mellon Foundation) Includes full-text back issues of selected journals in such areas as history, statistics, sociology, literature, and economics.

(ProQuest) Covers the years of 1851-2003 of the newspaper with full-text and full-image articles.

(Johns Hopkins University Press) Full-text articles from "over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals."

World History Collection  
(EBSCO) A global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. Contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

Selected Magazines & Journals Related to U.S. History in Lone Star College–CyFair Branch

American Heritage
American History
Film and History
Journal of Southern History
Nation
National Review
Natural History

Books, Videos, Etc.

Search for library materials in the:

Library Catalog

Other Libraries

eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary)

NOTE: Request items online from library catalog with a Harris County Public Library Card or Lone Star College–CyFair Photo ID/Library Card. See instructions on getting a library card.

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

Selected Web Sites

• 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
• U.S. National Archives & Records Administration Exhibit Hall - view extensive online exhibits and featured documents such as the Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment

Citation Help

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