American History

In Books - Lone Star College-North Harris has a vast collection of books, government documents, videos and other information on American History. Check the library's internet catalog for a complete listing. A partial listing of books is included below.

• Almanac of Dates [REF D11.5 .M565]
• American Decades [REF E169.12 .A419]
• Annals of America [REF E173 .A793]
• Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy [REF E467 .W2]
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress [online]
• Collected Works by Abraham Lincoln [REF E457.91 1953]
• Confederate Veteran [REF E482 .C66]
• Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court [REF KF8742 .W567 1997]
• Dictionary of American Biography [REF E176 .D563]
• Dictionary of American History (REF E174 .D5]
• Documents of American History [REF E175 .C66 1973b]
• Encyclopedia Americana [REF AE5 .E333 2002]
• Encyclopedia of Southern History [REF F207.7 .E52]
• Famous First Facts [REF AG5 .K315 1997]
• Foreign Relations of the U.S. [SuDoc S 1:11931-41]
• Historic Documents [REF E839.5 .H57]
• Memoirs of Harry S. Truman [E814 .T76]
• National Party Platforms [REF JK2255 .J6 1973]
• The Negro Almanac: a reference work on the Afro-American [E185 .N385 1983]
• New Encyclopedia of the American West [REF F591 .N46 1998]
• New Handbook of Texas [REF F384 .N48 1996 and online]
• New York Times Index [2nd floor Index Tables REF A121]
• Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States [REF KF 8742 .A35 O93 1992]
• Public Papers of the Presidents [SuDoc GS 4:113 and SuDoc AE 2:114]
• This Day in American History [REF E174.5 .G76]
• United States Reports (Supreme Court cases) [SuDoc JU 6:8 and online]
• Who's Who of American Women [REF E176 .N647]

• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR
• netLibrary (Online books) (NOTE: requires free registration to view books)
• Project MUSE
• ProQuest - All Databases

In Web Sites - Start here for a rich diverse listing of online locations.

• American Memory - Rich collection of documents, photographs, recordings, and more devoted to American history and culture.
• America's Story - The Library of Congress provides a look at United States history with biographical sketches, timelines, and interesting facts.
• Historical Maps of the United States American history as shown by maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
• History 1301: American History before 1865 U. S. history links before 1865 from Lone Star College-Kingwood Library.
• History 1302: American History from 1865 to the Present U. S. history links for 1865 to the present from Lone Star College-Kingwood Library.
• Kingwood College Library – American Cultural History -19^th Century Covers the decades from 1800 to 1900.
• Kingwood College Library – American Cultural History -20^th Century Covers the decades from 1900 to 2000.
• Kingwood College Library – Texas History Provides links to Texas newspapers, online journals, significant documents and events.
• Outline of American History Covers Native American cultures and the first European settlements to the Cold War and America in the 1990s.
• Smithsonian Institution – History and Culture Offers a broad scope of history and culture in the U.S and around the world.
• Today in History Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the collections of the Library of Congress.

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