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History Resources

Online Catalog Search the Learning Resources Center (LRC) Online Catalog for History books (available on shelf or electronically) using a keyword search. For example:

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Instructor Recommended Reading for Western Civilization History 101:

Title
Author
Call Number
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
DG 277.S83 1979
The Campaigns of Alexander Arrian on order
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer PR 1865.C6

Additional Online Resources:

The Iliad is available online from The Internet Classics Archive. A full-text version is available for download.
The Canterbury Tales is available online through Librarius. This online version is broken down by tales and is easy to navigate.

Instructor recommended reading for Western Civilization History 102:

Title
Author
Call Number
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas PQ 2228.A326
Silent Night: the Story of World War I Christmas Truce Stanley Weintrob D 530.W45
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's Otto Friedrich DD 880.F75

Additional Online Resource:

The Three Musketeers is available online through The Literature Network.

Instructor recommended reading for American History 201:

Title
Author
Call Number
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne PZ 3.H318Sc
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: the Ideology of the Republican Party Before The Civil War Eric Foner E 436.F6
The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman F 592.P284

Additional Online Resources:

The Scarlet Letter is available online at Bartleby.com.

The Oregon Trail is available online at Encyclopedia of the Self and Self Knowledge.

Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America An online exhibit assembled by the Library of Congress commemorates the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's famous exploration of the territories that were eventually acquired for the United States by the Louisiana Purchase. It provides a wide range of high-quality digitized materials, including historical records and maps portraying what was known about the area prior to the expedition as well as entries from the explorers' journals and notebooks.