Reference - American History

Gale Virtual Reference: Dictionary of American history by Stanley I. Kutler. 10 volumes. 3rd ed, Scribner's 2003.

Oxford Reference Online: Oxford Companion to United States History by Paul S. Boyer. Oxford UP, 2001.

Ebrary:

• American Revolutionary War Leaders : A Biographical Dictionary McFarland, 2010.
• Encyclopedia of the American armed forces, 2005
• The United States Army: : a chronology, 1775 to the present, 2010

ABC-CLIO eBOOK Collection - 51 titles with 'united states' OR america, including:

• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America
• Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America
• Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth-Century America
• Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia

Websites - Business & Economic History

Archive for the History of Economic Thought. McMaster University.

Business History Conference. Links of Interest on the Web. - "a starting point for the exploration of business and economic history materials available on the Web."

The Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash of 1929 - brief summary and links

Finding Books - General/World History

CBC Library Catalog: The subject terms applied most often are:

• History
• Historic
• Antiquities
• Archaeology
• Civilization

Adding one of these to a search including the name of a country or region will present you with a list of books, ebooks, videos, and other items in the Library's collections. For instance, a search on 'antiquities america'

- will provide hundreds of titles related to the prehistory of the americas.

ACLS Humanities E-Books: A project of the American Council of Learned Societies, contains a growing collection of over 1200 scholarly titles selected by noted historians. Expanding coverage of nearly all time periods and locations. May be browsed by subject, or for highly specific topics you may wish to search the full text.

Ebrary holds over 18,000 recent ebooks, many from university and other scholarly publishers. As with the ACLS titles it is possible to perform a keyword search on the full text of all volumes. It is also possible to do an 'advanced' search on the subjects of the books and produce a list of titles to browse; for instance, a search on 'history' and 'united states' offers over 870 titles.

Journal Articles - General/World History

If you don't have a topic selected you may browse history journals by using Journal Finder to view the full text titles in the subject area History and Archaeology. This subject area is further broken down by regions and countries, although it is important to realize that many history journals cover a wide range of countries, time periods, and subjects. This might be assumed with titles such as:
The Historian
but it is also the case for
American Historical Review, the official publication of the American Historical Association, which includes scholars of all history in all time periods and regions.

It is possible to search EBSCOhost for all the scholarly articles from either history journals or dealing with history subjects. This search can then be modified to focus on a particular topic, country, or region.

Reference - General

Daily Life Online: Essays on the domestic, economic, religious, and other aspects of people's daily lives, ancient to modern. Browse by time period, region, and subject category, or search by keyword.

Facts.com: Online, expanded version of the Facts-on-File World News Digest, with coverage of the modern world from 1940 to present. Special features include a timeline of Top News Stories by decade: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s; a companion database, Issues and Controversies in American History, may be searched separately or simultaneously.

Gale Virtual Reference - History & Culture Encyclopedias and dictionaries covering the history of the World, Prehistory - Modern. Includes the history of ideas, religions and many other cultural aspects.

Oxford Reference Online - History: Scholarly reference works including:

• The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium,
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages,
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation,
• The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance,
• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment,
• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History,
• The Oxford Companion to United States History, and much more!

ProQuest History Study Center - Resources provided include Reference articles, Biographies, Historiography, Maps, Primary sources, Images, Journal articles and Web links.

Reference - Middle East

Gale Virtual Reference

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. New York: Macmillan 2004.

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. New York: Macmillan 2004.

CBC Library - Reference Collection

Atlas of the Middle East. National Geographic Society, 2008.
Call Number: G2205 .N34 2008

Smith, Dan. The state of the middle east : an atlas of conflict and resolution. University of California Press, 2006.
Call Number: G2205 .S653 2006

Books - Middle East

Ebooks

Ebrary

Modern Middle East : A Sourcebook for History. Fortna, Benjamin C., Camron Amin, Elizabeth B. Frierson, eds. Oxford UP, 2006.

Kamrava, Mehran. Modern Middle East : A Political History Since the First World War. University of California Press, 2004.

Sicker, Martin. Middle East in the Twentieth Century. Greenwood, 2001.

Or search for more titles in Ebrary on the Middle East AND (history or civilization or relations)

ACLS Humanities

Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilization. Vol. 1-3. University of Chicago Press: 1974.

Search the Subject "Middle East" or for individual countries.

Print Titles

Search the CBC Library Catalog for the Subject "Middle East" or for individual countries.

Books & Reference - Chicano History

Search ebrary for the Subject "Hispanic Americans" - titles include:

• Gutierrez, David G., ed. Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960. Columbia UP, 2004.
  
• Oboler, Suzanne, ed. Latinos and Citizenship : The Dilemma of Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  
• Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. and Mariela Paez, eds. Latinos: Remaking America. University of California Press, 2002.

Search ebrary for the subject "Mexican Americans"; titles include:

• Gutierrez, Margo. Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Greenwood, 2000.
  
• Borjas, George J. Mexican Immigration to the United States. U of Chicago Press, 2007.
  
• Menchaca, Martha. Recovering History, Constructing Race : The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans. U of Texas Press, 2001.

Gale Virtual Reference: Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Jay Kinsbruner and Erick D. Langer, eds. 2nded. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008.

Search the CBC Library Catalog for the Subjects "Mexican American?" OR "Hispanic American?" to view a list of print titles in our collection.

Websites - Primary Sources - America

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History - links arranged chronologically to a variety of primary sources in many different sites.

United States. Library of Congress. American Memory - "written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."

Early Americas Digital Archive - "collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."

Making of America (MoA) - "primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." Collaborative project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University.

Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century: timeline created with links to digital content - documents, audio, video - from 12 U.S. Presidential Libraries.

Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature. At the National Humanities Center.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives of American Art. American Art History (primary sources).