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Starting Points: Guide to U. S. History

REFERENCE BOOKS - Available for your use in the library, these books cannot be checked out.

R 973 A	Album of American History	Seven volume, heavily illustrated survey from the Colonial period to 1982.
R 973 Chr	Chronicle of America – Year by Year, Day by Day Experience First Hand	A chronological history in a newspaper-like format of the country from prehistory through 1997. Major events boxed and highlighted for each year. Many illustrations.
R 973 Mag	Great Events from History: American Series	Short essays with summaries on 1000 events from the pre-Indian to the moon landing.
R 973 Uni	The Uniting States	In-depth stories of how each of the 50 states came to statehood.
R 973.03 (w/variations)	Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures	The histories of the eight regions of the US: Pacific, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, Great Plains, Midwest, South, Mid-Atlantic, New England.
R 973.03 Ame	The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History	Reflects social, cultural, and ethnic histories of this country. One volume.
R 973.03 Dic	Dictionary of American History	Alphabetical entries in 10 volumes. Hundreds of maps throughout.
R 973.03 Oxf	The Oxford Companion to United States History	An alphabetical one volume history from Jamestown to te Genome Project.
R 973.08 A	The Annals of America	Detailed essays covering 1493 to 1986 in 27 volumes including Conspectus and index. Many illustrations.

FINDING BOOKS AND OTHER LIBRARY MATERIALS/ Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 973

In addition to reference books, you may want to search for other books and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way to find good sources of information is to do a subject search in our Library catalog. You can access the Library’s online catalog from the Library or home by going to our Web page (www.wppl.org), then to Search Our Catalog. A good subject heading for this topic is United States History.

eBOOKS

You may also want to check out the collection of thousands of online books (eBooks) the Library offers, located on the Web site www.netlibrary.com. Initially, you must open an account from Library computer terminals, but you will then be able to use the account from home as well. See a reference librarian for more details.

FINDING ARTICLES

The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing with your topic:

· The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature - Adult Reference R 050 R Search for articles on a subject within any given year.
· EBSCOhost and InfoTrac OneFile - Access from the Library or at home using your library card number at www.wppl.org.

Search for full text articles on these online databases using your choice of keywords. You can limit your search to a certain year or even a certain magazine.

WEBSITES

AmDocs	Historical documents from Columbus to the present. See also: A Chronology of United States Historical Documents and Library Spot’s Historical Documents page.
American History Page	Over 100 links organized by chronology and topic from Multnomah County Library.
American History Sites	Over 7,000 links subdivided into broad logical categories from Yahoo.
American Memory	The Library of Congress’ more than 9 million digital items from over 100 historical collections.
History Matters	For high school & college history teachers, there is much here for the history student as well.
The History Net	About.com’s categorized, multi-linked site.
Library Spot’s Speeches	Original recordings of historic speeches given over the last century.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection	Pre-European-present North American maps & links to historical United States city & state maps.
US History	Internet Public Library’s extensive links to US history sites.
The Library also offers a collection of history-related sites at both Government and Politics.