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

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).

Books - Free Web - American History

Online Library of Liberty - American Revolution and Constitution : Primary and secondary sources "covering the American Revolution, the creation of the Constitution, and the Early Republic."