History

Below are selected resources that support the teaching and research interests of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University.
General Resources

Subjects in History

Research Specialist
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Sue Collins
Reference Librarian
Hunt Library
Phone: 412-268-5019
Fax: 412-268-7148
Email: sc24@andrew.cmu.edu
IM: Ask the History Librarian

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Welcome/Welcome Back to Carnegie Mellon!!

The Dewey Decimal to Library of Congress Reclassification Project is complete! Pockets of materials still in Dewey Decimal numbers remain and will be converted over time.

American Periodicals Series Online
Search, browse and display the full text of American magazines and journals 1740-1900.

18th Century Collections Online
Search, browse and display the full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas during 1700-1800. Materials include books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, and printed ephemera, with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. Subject areas include history geography, social sicences, fine arts, medicine, science, technology, law, general reference, literature and language. A work in progress, the database will contain 138,000 titlesand editions when completed in about 2010.

Making of the Modern World
Search, browse and display the full text of books and journal articles ca. 1460-1850. Materials are from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University. The are useful for the study of early economic, political, business, and social history, and for researching the literature of economics from this period.

Use the Chicago Manual of Style online!

Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project: Search or browse the Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), the American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and the Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present).

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79-294: The Making of the African Diaspora in the New World: A Resource Guide

79-420: Advanced Studies in Social and Cultural History: History of Religion: A Resource Guide

Resource Guides for Specific History Classes

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   Did You Know...
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...that you can access CMU databases with any ISP (Internet Service Provider)? See Off Campus/Wireless Access to use WebVPN or to download the client vpn.

...that by using E-ZBorrow you can get books from other libraries in 3-5 days?

...that you can find out when the history librarian will be at the reference desk? At My Andrew select "View Calendar" from the menu on the left and log on. Use the "View Agenda" icon, and search "Susan Collins."

 

 


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  September 5, 2008 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/Humanities/History/index.html
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