History: Modern America: Reference Resources

Some of the titles in the Reference collection in Crumb Library can be useful for:

• getting some basic information on your topic
  
• providing lists of references to books and/or articles on your topic
  

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See these pages for description of reference resources of these kinds:

• Biographical information: information on people
• Chronologies: information arranged by date
• Encyclopedias and handbooks: alphabetical compilations of condensed information
• Historical atlases: information presented as maps
• Bibliographies: lists of books and articles organized by topic

Browsing the Reference Area for U.S. History

• Ref E 51 - 99 : Indians of North America
• Ref E 101 - 135 : Discovery of America and early exploration
• Ref E 151 - : United States history (General)
• Ref E 184 – 185 : specific ethnic groups in American history
• Ref E 186 - 199 ; Colonial history
• Ref E 201 - 298 : Revolution
• Ref E 300 - 453 : Revolution to the Civil War
• Ref E 441 - 453 : Slavery
• Ref E 456 - 655 : Civil War
• Ref E 482 - 489 : Confederate State of America
• Ref E 661 - 738 : Late 19th century
• Ref E 714 - 735 : Spanish-American War
• Ref E 740 - : 20th century
• Ref F 1-195 : history of regions in the U.S

Other historical topics, such as economic history, social history, women's history, etc - will be scattered in other parts of the reference collection.