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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:

Civil Rights Movements United States Slavery United States History
Constitutional History United States Foreign Relations
Depressions 1929 United States History
Florida History United States History Civil War
Genealogy United States United States Politics and Government
Historiography United States Vietnam War 1961 1975
Indians of North America History Watergate Affair 1972 1974
Iraq War 2003 World War, 1914-1918
Military History World War, 1939-1945
Note: Often many of the subject headings can be broken down into more refined subject areas. As an example, for some materials on recent U.S. History you might try: United States - History - 21st Century

LC call numbers:

D 501- 680 World War One
D 731- 838 World War Two
DS 557- 559, E 846- 861 Vietnam War
E 18-143 America (General and Early History)
E 175 Historiography
E 186- 309 Colonial Period and American Revolution
E 337- 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- 802 The 1920s
E 806- 807 Great Depression and the New Deal
E 185, E 835- 851 Civil Rights Movement
E 838- 889 Late Twentieth Century, 1961-2001
E 860- 861 Watergate Affair
E 885- 889 Clinton Administration
E 902- 905 Bush (George W.) Administration

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