History

HIST 317 Textbook

Search for Books and Ebooks

The drop down menu above gives you several options for searching:

Keyword: This will search for the term in all areas of the record. Keep your topic to its key concepts for this search.

Author: Use if you know the author's name. You can enter just the last name of the author, or if you know their full name enter is as last name, first name (Example: Dickens, Charles).

Title: Enter either the full title or just a few keywords from the title.  

Subject: This is helpful if you are looking for numerous books on a topic. The lists below provide some suggestions of subject headings that may be useful in your research. 

Book Search Tips

Use BOOLEAN searching to narrow or broaden your results. Boolean describes the connecting word you use between your search terms such as AND, OR, & NOT. Using these connectors allows you the ability to link search terms, so you can find articles that address multiple subjects.

Adding OR between search terms will search for all records with one term OR the other (this is a broader search tool).
Using AND between words will search for all records with BOTH or ALL search terms applied.  
If you use NOT between the terms, it will search for the FIRST word in your search string and NOT the other.  

Finding History Books on the Shelf

Ellender Memorial Library uses the Library of Congress classification system. The lists below include call numbers where you can browse the shelves to find something that interests you. Books from similar subject areas can be found together.

Library of Congress

D: History (Non-American: World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania)

      DA: History of Great Britain and Ireland

            DA310-360: Tudor History

      DC: History of France

      DD: History of Germany

            DD253-256.8: Hitler and Nazi Germany

      DE: History of the Greco-Roman World

      DK: History of Russia, Soviet Union, and Former Soviet Republics

      DS41-326: History of the Middle East and Southwestern Asia 

      DS327-329.4: Central Asia

      DS331-498.8: History of Southern Asia

      DS501-518.9: History of East Asia

E: United States History

      E181-182: United States Military and Naval History

      E183-183.3: United States Political History

      E186-199: United States Colonial History

      E184.5-185.98: African-American History

      E201-298: American Revolutionary War 

      E331-337: Thomas Jefferson's Administrations

      E337.5-738: Nineteenth Century United States History

      E381-385: Andrew Jackson's Administrations

      E456-655: American Civil War

      E668: Reconstruction

      E740-837.7: Twentieth Century United States History

            E745-746: United States Twentieth Century Military and Naval History

F: United States Local History, Canada, and Latin America

      F206-395: History of the South, South Atlantic States

            F366-380: History of Louisiana

H: Social Sciences

      HN: Social History and conditions. Social Problems. Social reform.

      HQ: The Family. Marriage, Women, and Sexuality

PN1993.5.U6: History of film in the United States