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American History

Resources useful in the study of American History and materials pertaining to specific events that shaped the United States of America.

Searching the Catalog

  1. Create a list of broad and narrow keywords for your topic. If you need keyword ideas, use a thesaurus or an encyclopedia (see Getting Started with Research).
  2. Check your spelling!
  3. Search using just keywords. Don't type sentences. Use only 2 or 3 keywords at a time.
  4.  Use  AND, OR, NOT between keyword
  • AND - all results will have ALL words
  • OR - results will contain EITHER one word OR the other
  • NOT - results will NOT contain a particular word

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Search for Books/eBooks

Use this search box to find books to check out from the library and to find eBooks which you can read on your computer and most mobile devices.

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Browsing the Stacks

  • 320.973 United States -- politics
  • 322.10973 Politics and religion -- United States
  • 342 Constitutional and administrative law
  • 920.009297 American Native peoples -- biography
  • 971.024 American Revolution, 1774 - 1783
  • 973 United States
  • 973.099 Presidents -- United States -- collected biography
  • 973.71 Social, political, economic history
  • 973.711 Causes of the Civil War
 
Subjects: History

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