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Search the Online Catalog to locate materials in the Surry Community College Library. Browse the call number range D - DX for books related to world history and browse the call number range E - F for books related to the history of the Americas.
- Columbia History of the World / REF D 21 .G28 1972
- Conspiracy Theories in American History / REF E 179 .C66 2003
- Dictionary of American History / REF E 174 .D52 1976
- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / REF D 804.3 .E53 1990
- Encyclopedia of the Third Reich / REF DD 256.5 .G76313 1991
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century / REF E 740.7 .E53 1996
- Oxford Companion to American Military History / REF E 181 .O94 1999
- Oxford Companion to United States History / REF E 174 .O94 2001
Search for articles in the databases listed below or browse all of the library databases.
- Humanities Full Text
A Wilsonweb resource including art, communications, history, journalism, language & literature, music, religion, and performing arts as well as other related subjects.
- American History in Video
Provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
- Academic Search Premier
Provides information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.
- Biography Reference Bank Select Edition
Contains biographical articles from more than 100 volumes of reference books published by H. W. Wilson.
- OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition
A Wilsonweb resource, combining all Wilson indexes to create a comprehensive search tool across disciplines.
- 100 Milestone Documents
A list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
- African-American Odyssey
Digitized sources from the Library of Congress' vast African-American collection.
- AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
Provides links to documents for the study of American history arranged chronologically. The first document listed is an excerpt from Christopher Columbus' journal in 1492 and the last is President Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May of 2003.
- American Letters, Speeches, and Documents On-Line Library
"The following is a list of letters, speeches, documents, web sites, books, and articles on significant people and events in American political thought and history. Rather than being a comprehensive list of available resources, it is meant to be a list of the best resources available on the given subject."
- American Memory
"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning."
- Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: Political Perspective After 40 Years
Provides access to a wide array of resources including press releases, declassified documents, photographs, and audio clips.
- Digital History
"The materials on this Web site include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American, Asian American, and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a database of annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images."
- Documenting the American South
Primary resources for the study of Southern History, Literature, and Culture.
- Famous Trials
A site dedicated to various famous trials throughout history. From Socrates to OJ Simpson, you'll find timelines, photos, excerpts from the trial, maps and other pertinent materials.
- Historical Documents on the Web
Links to a massive number of current and historical texts related to the history of the United States. Includes full text of early and nineteenth century records of Congress.
- History Matters
Research history by topic and time period.
- Internet History Sourcebook Project
"The Internet History Sourcebook Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
- Reporting Civil Rights
Presents the reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement and the efforts of various journalists, activists and others to secure civil freedoms and liberties for African-Americans. An interactive timeline that chronicles the years 1941 to 1973. The Library of America companion site is a two-volume anthology that brings together nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports, book excerpts, and features by 151 writers. Use the table of contents to efficiently navigate the anthologies. Repositories of Primary Sources - over 900 links to websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, photographs and other primary sources.
- Women's Rights on Trial
Contains 101 key trials of historical importance to American women since the settlement of the colonies.
- Best of History Web Sites
"Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more."
- Voice of the Shuttle: History
VOS is a major Web site with over 70 pages of links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet.
- WebChron
"The WebChronology Project, originally a program of the History Department at North Park University, is a series of hyperlinked chronologies developed by the instructors and historical articles prepared by students intended for use in history classes."
- World History Compass
A site with broad coverage of world history of all time periods and geographic eras as well as the history of science and medicine and military and maritime history.
- WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
A site loaded with links related to general research methods and issues, historical eras, general and interdisplinary historical topics such as cartography, maritime history, labor history, women's history, the history of science, and films, and to sites focusing on individual countries.
- Year by Year: 1900-2005
Links by decades and by year and timelines. Contains categories for Disasters, Entertainment, and Sports.
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