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History Resources

New Books

Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity
Dio: the Julio-Claudians: Selections from Books 58-63 of the Roman History of Cassius Dio
Introduction to the Carolingian Age
Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial
Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom During the Civil War and Reconstruction
Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence: The Diaries of  the Moravian Mission to the Iroquois Confederacy, 1745-1755
Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution
The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity

Finding Books and Using the Snowden Online Catalog

The Library of Congress (LC) classification (the system Snowden Library uses to organize books) for history begins with the letter D. The general categories for history are:​

  • D = World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
  • E-F = History of the Americas
    • Subclass E = America and the United States
    • Subclass F = United States local history, British America (including Canada), Dutch America, French America, and Latin America

You can find these general categories on the 3rd floor of Snowden Library. You may want to browse the shelf where books on your subject are located to see what is available. For more targeted searching, use the search boxes below.

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eBooks

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Searching Beyond Snowden

WorldCat

Don't see what you need at Snowden? You can search for books available at other libraries that you can request via InterLibrary Loan using

E-Z Borrow

If you know a book title you want, you can also use E-Z Borrow to order it from other libraries in or near Pennsylvania.

Microform

Microform is a format of storage that uses small images (microreproductions) of printed documents to store a large amount of information material in a small space. This is a way to preserve and store large amounts of newspapers, journals, magazines, and more in just a few cabinets rather than tons of shelves. Microform comes in two forms: microfilm and microfiche. Microfilm comes in film strips or reels while microfiche comes in flat sheets. To view microfilm or microfiche, you need to use a special microform reader.

While using microform and the microform reader may seem intimidating, it is an interesting and important skill that will help progress your research. To learn how to use the microform reader, watch the video below created by Kira Schweikle and Iscah Rintelman as part of their Technical Writing course (spring 2024).