PATHFINDER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT

BOOKS

Ref Collection (These are kept right next to doors as you enter the library)

IF YOUR TOPIC IS A PERSON:

REF 920.02 Current Biography Series

REF 920.1 Gov. Leaders, Military leaders, and Political Leaders

REF 973 Dictionary of American Biography

REF 973 To The Best of my Ability! The American Presidents

REF 973 Notable American Women

REF 973 Epic Lives: 100 Black Women who Made a Difference

Individual Biographies—Shelved by Librarian’s Desk Alphabetical

order by Person’s Last Name (ex: Abraham Lincoln --in the Ls)

IF YOUR TOPIC IS AN EVENT (SOMETHING OTHER THAN A PERSON)

REF 970 Great Events from History: North America Series

REF 973 Dictionary of American History

REF 973.4 Shaping of America 1783-1815

REF 973.4 Civil War and Reconstruction

REF 973.8 Reconstruction

REF 973.8 Gilded Age and Progressive Age

REF 973.91 Roaring Twenties

REF 973.91 Great Depression

(REF Books with call # 300 are in center of library on short book cases)

REF 345.73 Great American Trials

REF 327.73 Cold War 1945-1991

REF 327.73 Cold War

REF 303.48 American Social Reform Movements

REF 305.8 Racial and Ethnic Relations in America

REF 306 Beecham’s Encyclopedia of Social Change in America

Regular Circulating Books—Library’s homepage Check Destiny Card Catalog.

ON-LINE –WEB ARTICLES

WEBPATH EXPRESS—These are acceptable Web Articles. Go in to Destiny (Library’s Card Cat.) Click on Catalog tab, then on the left hand side click on WEBPATH EXPRESS

Enter you subject.

ON-LINE DATABASE AREA (By Worldbook)

National Archives

Gale Virtual Library—go to the e-book section

Some Additional Web addresses:

http://www.americanpresident.org

http://www.pbs.org

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

http://memory.loc.gov

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/

http://www.historyplace.com/

http://www.history.com/

http://www.historycentral.com/