LibGuides: History Research Guide: Finding Books & Media

Call Number Ranges

History Call Number Ranges

CB History of Civilization
D History outside Americas
- DA Great Britain
- DD Germany
- DP Spain
- DT Africa
E American History
- E 31 - 99 Indians of North America, Pre-Columbian
- E 101 - 143 Discovery and early explorations
- E 151 - 889 United States
- F Local history, United States
F American History
- Local history, United States
HQ 1101-2030.7 Women. Feminism
U Military Science
V Naval Science

Suggested Keywords/ Topics

Use the following keywords when searching the MCC Library Catalog.

Indians of North America
Revolutionary War
Civil War, 1861-1865
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
Women's Rights

Library Catalog

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Sample Catalog Record

Video Databases

To access the databases below from off campus, you will need your myMCC login. You may find your username and password at www.mchenry.edu/myMCC. Click on "What's my password?"

American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion.
World History in Video
World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century
Current Affairs in Video
Current Affairs in Video is a unique streaming video resource featuring a collection of issue-based documentaries from around the world.
Ethnographic Video Online: Volume I
Alexander Street Anthropology brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over.
LGBT Studies in Video
LGBT Studies provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.

Popular History Reference Titles

Reference books listed below are located in the Reference Books section in the Library.

An atlas and survey of Latin American history
Call Number: G1541 .S1 L3
Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present
Call Number: REF E185 .E5453
The encyclopedia of world history
Call Number: Online
Women and Politics Around the World
Call Number: HQ1236 .W5876 2009 (2 volumes) Stacks