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Recommended resources for the study of history.
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American decades
Call Number: Reference E169.12 .A419
ISBN: 0810357224
American Decades documents and analyzes periods of contemporary American social history. Included are biographies; explanations of concepts; terms and events; quotations; charts; sidebars covering high-interest topics; and much more.

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American Decades Primary Sources
Call Number: E-BOOK (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
ISBN: 9780787665876
Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more.

 
 

Finding Books

Click on image to search for books at Western Oregon University, Summit, and ebrary or use the links below to search the catlogs individually.

WOU-Only Catalog
Books and e-books available at WOU. Books can be checked out for 3 weeks with 2 renewals. E-books are available online 24/7 from any computer and don't need to be checked out.  

SUMMIT
Books and other materials from Oregon and Washington academic libraries, and books and materials from Interlibrary Loan. 

Summit books and materials check out for 6 weeks with no renewals. Summit items take 3-5 business days and can be picked up at the WOU library checkout desk. You will be notified by email when your items are ready to be picked up.   

Books and materials from Interlibrary Loan can take 7-14 business days, have variable loan periods, and may or may not be renewed. 

Ebrary
Western Oregon University's e-book collection. No e-reader requited. You can access e-books at anytime.

 

Browsing Books

The majority of History books can be found on the 2nd floor of the library. Each book has a call number with a Library of Congress Classification number. If you would like to browse the History collection, go to one of the call number sections listed below:

Example of call number

Ds (2nd floor)

D           History (General)           

DA        Great Britain

DAW     Central Europe

DB        Austria/Hungary/Czech

DC        France/Andorra/Monaco

DD        Germany

DE        Greco-Roman World

DF        Greece

DG        Italy/Malta

DJ         Netherlands (Holland)

DJK       Eastern Europe (general)

DK        Russia/USSR/Poland

DL         Northern Europe, Scandinavia

DP        Spain/Portugal

DQ        Switzerland

DR        Balkan Peninsula

DS        Asia

DT        Africa

DU       Oceania (South Seas)

DX       Gypsies


Es (2nd floor)

E        United States (general)


Fs (2nd floor)

F        United States (local), Canada, Latin America, Mexico


Visit Library of Congress Classification Online and select the appropriate class (letter) for a more detailed description of the system.

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