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Find Books for History
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Searching for History Titles in Print:
Subject headings describe what a book is about. If you do a subject search, you can be confident that you will locate all the books in the library on a given subject. The list below is a sampling of the numerous subject headings in use in the NEOS Library Catalogue that have to do with the broad topic of history:
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To find topics within our books, browse the shelves in the "D", "E", and "F".
The “D” section of the General Collection holds the majority of titles about World history, separated by geographic location:
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D: History (General)
- D25-27: Military and naval history
- D51-90: Ancient history
- D101-110.5: Medieval and modern history, 476-
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D111-203: Medieval history
- D135-149: Migrations
- D151-173: Crusades
- D501-680: Word War I (1914-1918)
- D720-728: Period between World Wars (1919-1939)
- D731-838: World War II (1939-1945)
- DA: Great Britain
- DAW: Central Europe
- DB: Austria - Liechtenstein - Hungary - Czechoslovakia
- DC: France - Andorra - Monaco
- DD: Germany
- DE: Greco-Roman World
- DF: Greece
- DG: Italy - Malta
- DH: Low Countries - Benelux Countries
- DJ: Netherlands (Holland)
- DJK: Eastern Europe (General)
- DK: Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics - Poland
- DL: Northern Europe. Scandinavia
- DP: Spain - Portugal
- DQ: Switzerland
- DR: Balkan Peninsula
- DS: Asia
- DT: Africa
- DU: Oceania
- DX: Gypsies
The "E" and "F" sections of the General Collection pertains directly to the history of North America:
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E11-143: America (aboriginal culture; european discovery and early colonization)
- E75-99: Indians of North America
- E101-135: Discovery of America and early explorations
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E151-904: United States (by time period and administration)
- E181: Military History
- E182: Naval History
- E186-199: Colonial History
- E201-298: The Revolution, 1775-1783
- E441-453: Slavery in the United States. Antislavery movements
- E461-655: Civil War period, 1861-1865
- F1-975: United States local history (by State)
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F1001-1145.2: British America (including Canada)
- F1001-1035: General Canada
- F1035.8-1050: Maritime and Atlantic Canada
- F1051-1055: Quebec
- F1056-1059: Ontario
- F1060: Northwest and Northwest Territories
- F1061-1066: Manitoba
- F1067-1074: Saskatchewan
- F1075-1080: Alberta
- F1086-1090: British Columbia
- F1090.5-1095.5: Arctic Regions including Yukon
- F1121-1140: Newfoundland and Labrador
- F1141-1145.2: Nunavut
- F1170: French America
- F1201-3799: Latin America. Spanish America
Background research on topics may be found by consulting information in the Reference Collection.
This would include:
REF D 11 C557 1997 V.1-3
REF D 11 W723 2005
REF D 13 R177 2010
REF D 23 B513 2005 V.1-5
REF D 521 H426 1998
REF E 183 A935 1986
REF E 183.7 F494 1989
REF E 188 E56 1990
REF E 209 M36 2010
REF FC 23 B486 1986
REF FC 226 C212 2001 V.1-2
REF FC 601 .A1 R261 1997