Delgado Community College Libraries: Primary Sources (History): Books

Examples of Books in the Catalog

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The Muckrakers and the Progressive Era by Laurie C. Hillstrom
Call Number: 302.23 Hl65m
ISBN: 9780780810938
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
Explores how the muckraking tradition and progressive political ideas have continued through the modern era. Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index.
City Park Campus
The American Axis by Max Wallace
ISBN: 0312290225
Publication Date: 2003-08-29
Documents the rise of Nazism, with primary sources near the end.
City Park Campus
Norton Anthology of American Literature by N. Baym
Call Number: 810.8 N88(7) V.1 & 2
ISBN: 9780393927399
Publication Date: 2007-04-19
Includes seminal works by American writers from the earliest times to present.
City Park Campus
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Hortense Spillers (Editor); Nellie Y. McKay (General Editor); Deborah E. McDowell (Editor); Robert G. O'Meally (Editor); Cheryl A. Wall (Editor); Henry Louis Louis Gates (General Editor); William L. Andrews (Editor); Houston A. Baker (Editor); Frances Smi
Call Number: 810.80896 N88(2)
ISBN: 0393977781
Publication Date: 2003-12-19
Includes seminal writings by African Americans from the earliest times to present.
City Park Campus
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women by Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor); Susan Gubar (Editor)
Call Number: 820.8 Na88(3)
ISBN: 9780393930153
Publication Date: 2007-02-06
Includes seminal writings by women from the earliest times to present.
Pirates Through the Ages Reference Library by Sonia Benson
Call Number: 910.45 B47p
ISBN: 9781414486628
Publication Date: 2011-06-17
Volume 3 is all primary sources.
City Park Campus
I Was Born a Slave by Yuval Taylor (Editor); Charles Johnson (Foreword by)
Call Number: 920.009296 I11
ISBN: 1556523351
Publication Date: 1999-02-01
Daily Life in Victorian England by Sally Mitchell
Call Number: 941.081 M68d2
ISBN: 9780313350344
Publication Date: 2008-11-30
This edition features an extensive guide to contemporary primary source material and further research, including information about finding authoritative sources easily on the Web. Illustrations, interactive sidebars, a chronology and glossary further illuminate the details of Victorian culture.
City Park Campus
Competing Voices from Native America by Joy Porter (Editor); Dewi Ioan Ball (Editor)
Call Number: 970.00497 Co73
ISBN: 9781846450167
Publication Date: 2008-12-01
A selection of short primary-source accounts from a variety of sources, including newspaper reports, Congressional documents, government documents, and Indian tribal sources, highlighting conflicts and controversies and presenting the opposing views of Native and non-Native Americans.

City Park Campus
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Browse the Shelves in the Library

Call numbers should help you browse the shelves.

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
790 Recreational & performing arts
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
930 History of ancient world to ca. 499
940 History of Europe
950 History of Asia; Far East
960 History of Africa
970 History of North America
973 United States
980 History of South America
990 History of other areas
999 Extraterrestrial worlds