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Subject Guide: U.S. History

Subject Headings

You can find books and other materials in the library by searching NovaCat, the NSU Libraries online catalog. How to search NovaCat. To locate books and materials at other libraries, see Catalogs.

Suggested Library of Congress (LC) subject headings include:

 
Searches can be general by not including sub categories:

<region> <category> For example:
 
Florida - History
United States - History
United States -- Politics and government
 
Searches can be specific by including more categories (region and/or time period):
<region> <category> < time period> For example:
 

Florida -- History Spanish Colony 1565 1763

United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States -- History --20th Century
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783)

LC call numbers:

D 501-D 680, E 766-E 783 World War One
D 731-D838, E 807 World War Two
DS 557-DS 559, E 846-E 861 Vietnam War
E 18-143 America (General and Early History)
E 151-185 Historiography
E 186-309 Colonial Period and American Revolution
E 311-738 Nineteenth Century

E 441-453
Slavery and Anti--Slavery Movements
E 456-655 Civil War, 1861-1865
E 740-837 Twentieth Century
E 784-E802 The 1920s
E 802-E 806 Great Depression and New Deal
E 185, E 835-851 Civil Rights Movement
E 838-889 Late Twentieth Century, 1961-2001
E 860-E 861 Watergate Affair
E 885-E 889 Clinton Administration
E 889-E 905 Bush (George W.) Administration

Dewey call numbers:

   
   

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