History - United States

Biography Reading Lists

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:48:45 -0700

Featured Titles

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:55:59 -0700

Big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America

The ten-cent plague: the great comic-book scare and how it changed America

Search the Library Catalog

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:25:30 -0700

Welcome to PCC Library. The Library Catalog is your starting point to find books, ebooks, DVDs, articles, and other materials.

United States Catalog Searches

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:00:39 -0700

american revolution
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civil war
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colonial period
constitutional history
great depression
korean war
mexican war
new deal
nineteen sixties
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reconstruction
salem witchcraft
segregation
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slavery
territorial expansion
terrorism government policy
vietnam war
west U.S. history
world war, 1914-1918
world war, 1939-1945

United States History Databases

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:13:21 -0700

New Deal Network

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:22:33 -0700

The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's New Deal Network website features primary documents on the Great Depression and New Deal, including photos, speeches, letter, and other texts.

Century of Lawmaking

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:14:53 -0700

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation provides access to U.S. congressional documents and debates from 1774-1875.

Valley of the Shadows

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:08:21 -0700

Valley of the Shadows

Learn about daily life in two communities, one Northern and one Southern, during the American Civil War. Primary documents include diaries, letters, newspapers, and official records.

American History: A Documentary Record

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:34:23 -0700

The Chronology of American History 1492 - Present, sponsored by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School, presents hundreds of primary documents relating to U.S. history.

About Primary Sources

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:09:23 -0800

Letters, interviews, photographs, and diary/blog entries are all examples of primary sources. Primary sources provide first-hand evidence of an event or subject, and they can be unpublished or published. PCC Library's collection incudes published primary sources including autobiographies and personal journals. The Internet provides a wealth of access to primary sources through websites of historical societies, museums, organizations, educational institutions, and governmental entities. Consult Using Primary Sources on the Web, published by the American Library Association.

Massachusetts Historical Society

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:32:41 -0800

The Massachusetts Historical Society's online collections include digital editions of the Adams and Winthrop family papers, images from the antislavery movement, and historical maps of the French and Indian War.

OAIster

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:35:56 -0700

Use OAIster, a catalog of digital resources to search for primary documents.

100 Milestone Documents

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:38:33 -0700

100 Milestone Documents chronicles U.S. history beginning with the Lee Resolution of June 7, 1776 and ending with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Primary Documents in American History

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:38:50 -0700

Primary Documents in American History contains primary documents from the years 1763 to 1877. Documents from the 20th century will be added in the future.

Historical Maps

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:39:12 -0700

Historical maps of the United States online from the Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas.

American Memory

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:39:39 -0700

Sponsored by the Library of Congress, American Memory presents thousands of primary sources, including photographs, recordings, pamphlets, and personal papers, that document the history of the United States.

Salem Witchcraft Trials

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:41:50 -0700

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
From the University of Virginia, this website contains court transcripts, record books, and other primary source material.

Salem Witchcraft Trials - Famous American Trials
Documents, images, maps, and other primary source material are included. From the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

Documenting the American South

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:05:46 -0700

Documenting the American South

Texts, images and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Includes slave narratives, southern life during the civil war, and the church in the Southern Black community.

MERLOT - Multimedia Learning Materials

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:20:29 -0700

Search MERLOT for multimedia learning materials on United States history.

National Archives Online Exhibits

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:13:56 -0700

Explore online exhibits from the U.S. National Archives including The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Virus of 1918, Powers of Persuasion - Posters from World War II, When Nixon Met Elvis, and more.

Civil War

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:28:51 -0800

PBS's companion website to Ken Burn's documentary The Civil War Includes images, documents, maps, biographies, and activities including making your own movie using images, music, and narration from the website. Check out the documentary from PCC Library.

National Portal to Historic Collections

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:34:47 -0700

Search the National Portal to Historic Collections for historic artifacts, documents, photographs, and paintings. Sponsored by a partnership of the American Association of State and Local History and American Heritage.

Presidential Speech Archive

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:17:17 -0700

Presidential Speech Archive

Important presidential speeches in full audio (some in video) from the past 60 years in a collection at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Also includes full text from some important presidential speeches from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Films at PCC Library

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:12:40 -0700

united states history

Films on Demand

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:49:44 -0800

Watch From Bitter Earth: Artists of the Holocaust
This BBC production pays tribute to the Jewish artists who created work that vividly documented the horror of Hitler's reign, from the despair of the Polish ghettos to the unprecedented misery of the death camps.

Browse the History film collection in Films on Demand, a streaming video database.

Archival Films & Newsreels (Films on Demand)

jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:56:00 -0700

View streaming videos in the Archival Films & Newsreels collection via Films on Demand

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jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:34:41 -0700

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jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:34:58 -0700

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jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:15 -0700

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jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:30 -0700

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jrognlie@pcc.edu (Jane Rognlie) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:35:44 -0700

PCC Library has lots of resources that you can use on your own. You may already know that about the quiet study spaces as well as study rooms you can reserve.

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