University of Idaho Library - History Research Guide

History

Librarian: Ramirose Attebury
E-mail: rattebur@uidaho.edu
Phone: (208) 885-2503
Research Assistance Program

Reference Works

The reference section is located on the 1st floor of the library.

Books are shelved using the Library of Congress Classification scheme.

Call numbers beginning with Ref are in the reference section and unavailable for checkout. Books with call numbers beginning with Day-NW need to be requested for in the Reading Room.

Title/Description	Call #
UNITED STATES
Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia	E179.C66 2003
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History	Ref E185.E54 1996
Encyclopedia of American Indian History	Ref E77.E48 2008
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: a Political, Social, and Military History	Ref E468.H47 2000
Encyclopedia of the American West	Day-NW F591.E485 1996
Encyclopedia of the Lewis and Clark Expedition	Day-NW F592.7.W68 2004
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History	HD8066.A78 2007
Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, and Military History	Ref D740.E516 2005
The New Encyclopedia of the American West	Ref F591.N46 1998
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia	Ref E441.S635 2007
WORLD
Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History	DS918.E53 2000
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture	Ref F1406.E53 1996
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation	CB359.B47 2004
Encyclopedia of the United Nations	KZ4968.M66 2002
Encyclopedia of World Environmental History	Ref GF10.E63 2004
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas	Ref CB9.N49 2005
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History	Ref HC15.O94 2003

ONLINE: Gale Virtual Reference Library

American Decades (2001)
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (2006)
Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America (2004)
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages (2004)
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (1999),
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (2000),
Television in American Society (2007)
Westward Expansion Reference Library (2001)

ONLINE: Oxford Reference

A compilation of 31 Oxford reference books related to specifically to history, in addition to many more books on related social sciences and humanities. Topics include American military, Australian history, the saints, popes, British, Irish, and Scottish histories, ships and the sea, the classical world, world history, and Canadian history.

Books

Books are located on the 3rd (H-Z) and 4th (A-G) floors organized by the Library of Congress Classification scheme.

Search for books (including the e-book collection) using the library catalog.

Call Number Areas to Browse

Description	Call # Areas
History (General)	D
Great Britain	DA
Central Europe	DAW
Austria-Lichtenstein-Hungary-Czechoslovakia	DB
France-Andorra-Monaco	DC
Germany	DD
Greco-Roman World	DE
Greece	DF
Italy	DG
Low Countries	DH
Netherlands (Holland)	DJ
Eastern Europe	DJK
Russia	DK
Northern Europe	DL
Spain and Portugal	DP
Switzerland	DQ
Balkan Peninsula	DR
Asia and the Middle East	DS
Africa	DT
Oceania	DU
United States (national)	E
United States (local/state history)	F1-975
Canada	F1001-1145.2
Latin America	DF1201-3799

Articles

Articles are generally more specific; use more specific keywords to create a narrower search.
Journals may contain both popular and scholarly sources (magazine, journal, and newspaper articles)

Browse a list of journals subscribed to by the library

Search Article Databases

America History and Life

Citations to articles about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 1,700 journals published worldwide. The database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in U.S. and Canadian history and related fields.
European Views of the Americas

This database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750, the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846 is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities.
Iter Bibliography

Iter´s bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues)
JSTOR

Includes full-text back issues of 1,500 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. There’s a ’moving wall’ of 3-5 years, depending on title, for which the latest issues are not available.
Pacific Northwest Historical Newspapers Archive

Historical newspapers from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Includes coverage for selected newspapers from 1854-1922.
Project MUSE

Provides full-text articles from over 70 history journals in addition to articles from numerous other related social sciences and humanities publications.
Sanborn Digital Maps

More than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities, from 1867-1970.

Digital Primary Source Websites