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Books and Media

Subject terms include:  History  (See also History under individual countries, individual culture groups, or tribes.  For example:   Brazil - History  | 
History - Ancient  |  Middle Ages  |  Military History   |  Northwest Pacific History |   Prehistoric Peoples    |  Renaissance  |  Stone Age  |  United States History  | 
Women History   |  Washington State History  |  World War 1939-1945

Keywords include:    African Americans History   | Ancient Greece  |  Ancient Rome  |  Middle Ages  |  Pacific Northwest History  |  World War II 

Call Numbers:   Ancient history 930-939  |  European history 940-949  | 
Asian history 950-959  |  African history 960-969  |  United States history 979-979  | 
South American history 980-989  |  World War II  940.52 - 940.55

Library Catalog
Ebrary Books
Escholarship Books
Video List

Selected Periodicals

Full List
American Historical Review  (print, electronic)
Current History   (print, electronic)  
History Today   (print, electronic)  
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies   (print, electronic)
Journal of Women's History  (print, electronic)
Pacific Northwest Quarterly  (print)

Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)
Directory of Open Access Journals
JSTOR
ProQuest Direct

Reference Sources

Africana : the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience  R 960.03 A258 2005
Encyclopedia of American Social History   R 973.03 E56 1993
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements  R 973.03 E56 2004
Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000   R 940.03 E56 2001
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture   R 980.003 E56 1996
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment   R 940.2503 E564 2003
Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, Military History  R 940.5303 E56 2005
Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World   R 940.203 E89 2004
Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery  R 306.362 H673 1997

Web Sites

WWWVL - History Central Catalogue
WWWVL - United States History
History Sites by Subject  (Tennessee Technological University)
Best of History Web Sites
eHistory (Ohio State University)
HistoryWorld

Northwest History (Tacoma Public Library)
HistoryLink: the Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
Washington State Territorial Timeline

Japanese American Internment
Japanese-American Internment Camps
Japanese-American Internment/Relocation

Web Directories

Academic Info
BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources - History
Internet Public Library - History
Intute: Social Sciences - History
Librarians' Internet Index - History
Scout Report Archives - History
Voice of the Shuttle - History

Campus Links

Highline Community College History Department
Highline Community College History Seminars

Organizations

American Historical Association
World History Association
Washington State History Museum

Updated on:  October 20, 2009


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Please contact Jack Harton if you would like to order materials in this subject area. If you need help with research, please visit the HCC library reference desk in the information commons or click on Ask-a-Librarian!

jharton@highline.edu
206-878-3710 extension 3806


This Day in History (InfoPlease) Nov 21, 1789: North Carolina became the 12th state.
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Nov 21, 1922: Georgia's Rebecca Felton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman U.S. Senator.
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Nov 21, 1934: Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes opened in New York City.
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