Information Services

Books & Media
Search the Library Catalog to find books, video's, government publications and journal titles. The catalog can be searched by author, title, keyword or subject and contains the holdings of Connecticut College as well as Trinity College and Wesleyan University. To search for books and media outside of the local catalog, use WorldCat.

History resources available in Shain Library include:

The major Library of Congress classification numbers for history books fall within the following ranges:

In the Dewey collection, the 900’s cover history.

General Guides to Historical Research

Writing history : a guide for students.  D16 S864 1999

Major Encyclopedias and Other Reference Sources

Dictionary of the Middle Ages  D114 D5 1982

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia  DS4 E53 2002

Encyclopedia of Asian History  DS31 E53 1988

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic  DS35.53 O95 1995  

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan  DS805 K633

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara  DT351 E53 1997

Handbook of North American Indians  E77 H25

Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies  E45 E53 1993

Dictionary of American History  E174 D52 2003

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History  E185 E54 1996

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War  E468 E53 2000

Encyclopedia of the American West  F591 E485 1996

Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures  F1218.6 O95 2001

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture  F1406 E53 1996

Encyclopedia of the Confederacy  E487 E55 1993

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt  DT58 O94 2001

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust  D840.3 E53 1989

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth-Century  E169.1 E626 2001

Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing  D14 E53 1999

Chronology of World History (Prehistory-1998)  D11 M39 1999

Columbia Gazetteer of the World  G103.5 C65 1998

Oxford Atlas of World History  G1030 O94 1999

Complete Atlas of World History  G1030 C66 1997

Routledge Atlas of American History  G1201 S1 G53 2003

Dent Atlas of American History  G1201 S1 G53 1993

African-American Atlas : Black history and culture  E185 A79 1998

History Atlas of South America  G1701 S1 E4 1998

Atlas of Russian History  G2111 S1 G52 1993

Other resources for locating information on books and media include:
Books in Print
Book Review Digest

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Style Manuals
A collection of style manuals and writing guides are kept on the shelf behind the reference desk. Information is also available from the Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources page.

Databases & Indexes
A full listing of all scholarly databases is available grouped by subject or listed alphabetically.

America: History & Life
America: History and Life is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for the history of the United States and Canada. Its coverage spans the prehistory of the continent to the present. This database provides citations to articles, book reviews, dissertations, edited volumes, and media sources from over 1800 journals worldwide going back to 1954. Does not include coverage of Latin America, that is available in Historical Abstracts.

American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada. Coverage is 1990 forward.

Archives USA
A directory of over 5,400 repositories and over 124,400 collections of primary source material across the United States. Using ArchivesUSA, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.

Arts & Humanities Index (via FirstSearch)
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals covering articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more. Also indexes selected articles from social science and science journals .

Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
Contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

Evans Digital Edition 
A resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Coverage is 1639-1800.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
A bibliography of authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials. Coverage is 1970 forward.

Historical Abstracts
An index to journal articles, book and video reviews, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 to the present. Historical Abstracts does not cover the United States and Canada, that is covered in America: History and Life.

HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities

Humanities Index (via FirstSearch)
Indexes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. Coverage is 1984-present.

Iter Bibliography
A bibliography of close to 500,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews. Updated daily and with thousands of new records added annually, this powerful research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Pennsylvania Gazette 
Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.

Sanborn Maps (Connecticut only)
Provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.

Internet Resources
University of Kansas History Site
(http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/)

International Institute of Social History
(http://www.iisg.nl)

Asian Studies WWW
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)

Russian/East European Web
(http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/)
 
Reenic: Russion and East European Network Information
(http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic/index.html)

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
(http://lanic.utexas.edu)

WESSWEB: Western European Specialists
(http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/)

Voice of the Shuttle
( http://vos.ucsb.edu)

e-Journals
A complete listing of full text electronic journals is located on the Library homepage under the Journal Locator link.

JSTOR 
Full-texts of journals from many different disciplines, including Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology. JSTOR journals are back issues, no title will be more current than 3-5 years back.

Assistance
For assistance in locating or using these or other sources, please contact the Reference Desk or schedule an appointment for a Personalized Research Session.

Page content by Marian Shilstone

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