History-+World

= = =History- World= toc =Finding Books & Media= Books and media in the area of Biology can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings.In addition, you have limit your results to Audio Visual materials or materials located at Wayne College Library. View Tipsheet

If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog View Tipsheet: OhioLink Central Catalog

For Examaple: Ancient civilization and Rome Maya and Religion Hans and Weapons Tribal society 18th century and Europe First crusades Middle East and the Bible

Suggested Subject Headings:
Military History World History View a list of subtopics on Civilization View a list of Subtopics on history View a list of subtopics under Archaeology

Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
BL (Religion) CB (Ancient World) CC (Archaeology) D818- D838 (World War I and World War II) D-DQ (Europe) DS (Asia, Middle East, India, China and Japan) DT (Africa) E (United States History) HM (Sociology) HN (Social History) HQ (Family life and women studies) ML (Music) N (Art) U-V (Military Science)

=Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection= ==Books in the library's collection:== Ref BD 21 .O97 2011 Oxford handbook of world philosophy Ref BL 311 .M97 2000 Myths and Legends of the world Ref CB 69 .D35 2009 Daily life through world history in primary documents Ref CB 311 .E54 2002 Encyclopedia of the ancient world CC 70 .W68 2008 World encyclopedia of archaeology : the world's most significant sites and cultural treasures Ref CS 27 .M67 Dynasties of the world : a chronological and genealogical handbook **(**print and online) Ref CT 114 .G74 2005 Great lives from history. The Middle Ages, 477-1453 Ref D9 .W67 2011 World history encyclopedia Ref D55 .G74 2004 Great lives from history. The ancient world, prehistory-476 C.E. Ref GN 333 .W67 2009 Worldmark Encyclopedia of culture and daily life (print and online) Ref GT 31 .G74 2004 Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life : a tour through history from ancient times to the present Ref GT 511 .L474 2008 What people wore when : a complete illustrated history of costume from ancient times to the nineteenth century for every level of society Ref HQ 21 .G67125 2008 Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history Ref HQ 503 .C85 2012 Cultural history of childhood and family Ref N 5300 .H674 2004 Art in World history Ref TX 353 .C255 2000 Cambridge world history of food

Online book databases or collections of E-books:
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections) In the First Person  p rovides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online) Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books

=Recommended Databases:= Academic Search Complete :The world's most comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database. View Tipsheet

View a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCO Host Databases View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCO host databases

Anthropology Plus compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index and Harvard's Anthropological Literature. The World's largest source of anthropological, archaeological, and related interdisciplinary research. Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Art Full Tex t Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of publications, with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals. Encyclopædia Britannica is a comprehensive encyclopedia with articles often written by renowned scholars. A good resource to begin research on an unfamilar topic. Columbia Gazetteer of the world is encyclopedia of geographical places and features in the world. Includes information of demographics, physical geography, political boundaries, industry, trade, agriculture, history, archaeology, transportation, latitude and longitude, elevation, and variant names and spellings. Gale Biography Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. Humanities International Complete : Provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world. JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.

=__Recommended Websites__= Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theater, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world. Best of the Web with the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. Catholic encyclopedia  is online encyclopedia that covers church history within the Western World, its doctrines, art and literature. Humanities WWW Virtual Library alphabetical directory of humanities topics such as archaeology, architecture, literature, philosophy with its own virtual library. Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. Open Directory History @http://www.dmoz.org/Society/History/ a subject directory listing History websites by region, time period and topic. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an online encyclopedia Voices of the Shuttle : a directory of Humanities websites produced and maintained by the University of California World Bank database provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog. World History Sources (homepage, with links to primary sources, plus special sections on documents and pedagogical tools) (Center for History and New Media, George Mason U.)

=E-Journals:= Historian History of the Family Journal of late antiquity Journal of world history

E-Journal Finder: A list of History journals Electronic Journal Center: A list of History Journals

=Professional Organizations:= American Historical Association Historical Society National Coalition for History Organization of American Historians World History Association

=Brush Up on the Basics= Need an overview on this topic? Check out these basic resources:

Audiovisual:
Biography Series History Channel
 * Series:**
 * This is a series of DVDs about famous people from Cleopatra to St. Francis of Assisi produced by the History Channel and A & E
 * This is a series of DVDs about historical events and people from "The Last Stand of the Spartans" to" Alexander the Great Conquests"

CB 311 .L67 DVD Lost Civilizations (4 volume set) D 20 .H696 2002 DVD History's turning Points (4 volume set) D 62 .D43 2006 DVD Decisive battles. The ancient world: 13 defining moments from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to the struggle over the Persian Empire D 121 .D37 2007 DVD The dark ages : the fall of civilization, the rise of a new world order DG 89 .L4463 DVD Legions of Rome: three volume set DG 270 .R66 2008 DVD Rome: rise and fall of an empire DL 65 .B37 2003 DVD Barbarians: Two volume set:
 * Suggested Titles**
 * v.1 Punic Wars
 * v.1 Gallic Wars
 * v.3 Roman Invasions of Britain
 * v.1 The Viking and The Goth
 * v.2 The Mongols and The Huns

Books:
BR 252 .L82 2013 History of the church in the Middle Ages BR 305.3 .M37 Reformation: a very short introduction D 5.5 .M34 Mammoth book of eye-witness history D 70 .C865 2003 The Celts a very short introduction D 25 .A32 2011 001 battles that changed the course of world history DA 195 .G37 2000 The Norman conquest a very short introduction DC 148 .D688 2001 French Revolution a very short introduction DG 272 .K45 2006 The Roman Empire: a very short introduction ML 3470 .B68 2002 World music: a very short Introduction

**Suggested E- Book titles:**
Ancient Greece : from prehistoric to Hellenistic times Ancient Near East : history, society and economy The early medieval world : from the fall of Rome to the time of Charlemagne Encyclopedia of Latin America Gale Encyclopedia of Religion Gale encyclopedia of world history. Greeks who made us who we are : eighteen ancient philosophers, scientists, poets and others History of India Monarchs of the Renaissance : the lives and reigns of 42 European kings and queens Oxford companion to military history

**Suggested On Line Documentaries**
YouTube to find documentary films Digitial Resources Commons OhioLink covers many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere
 * Databases:**

=Document Your Sources= The Smucker Learning Center's documents and information Style Guides in the Library's collection: Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

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