Finding Books & E-Books - HIST 675 Seminar in History: American Memory - Museums, Historic Sites, and Monuments - Research Guides at Fort Hays State University

How to Find Books on the Shelf

3. How Books & Journals are Organized in Forsyth Library: (Library of Congress System)

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Government documents

To find more Government Documents, search the Online Catalog and select "government documents" under Location. More information available here

US Government Documents Available Online

Library of Congress
Contains numerous historical sources
Library of Congress: American Memory Project
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Congressional Record Index (1983 to Date)
Congressional Record Daily Edition (1994 to Date)
National Park Service Index
Locate historic sites and memorials by state, many contain links to primary materials.
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.

Relevant E-Books available through Forsyth Library

Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites by Teresa Bergman
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Available through Ebrary using your FHSU credentials, Bergman's work offers an important analysis for scholars and professionals in American studies, museum studies, public history, and communication and media studies.
The National Park Architecture Sourcebook by Harvey H. Kaiser
Publication Date: 2008-03-20
Accessible through Ebrary using your FHSU credentials, The National Park Architecture Sourcebook is unique and comprehensive guidebook to America's most significant historic park-based architectural treasures. Kaiser leads readers beyond the rustic lodges of Yellowstone and Yosemite found in typical guide books to those special places where history, form, and natural beauty have combined to create moments of architectural magic or enduring symbols of patriotism and heroic action such as the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial, Fort Sumter, and the USS Arizona.
Remembering the Alamo by Richard R. Flores
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Drawing on a broad range of theorists in various fields (geography, social history, semiotics, cultural studies, and anthropology), Flores provides a compelling and quite forceful analysis of various historically produced forms of documenting, recalling, and interpreting the Alamo.
Places of Public Memory by Greg Dickinson; Carole Blair; Brian L. Ott
Publication Date: 2010-07-01
Available through Ebrary using your FHSU credentials, "Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials" is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric.

Reference E-books

Credo Reference E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
Reference e-books on a wide range of topics. Sources include dictionaries, encyclopedias, key concepts, key thinkers, handbooks, atlases, and more. Search by keyword or browse titles by topic.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Britannica Academic contains both the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, as well as magazine and journal articles written by Pulitzer Prize winners and leading experts, a world atlas, country data, and timelines.

E-Book Databases

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Ebook Central is a highly interactive ebook database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 186,000 titles from more than 280 of the world's leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Install Adobe Digital Editions to download and read ebooks offline on your laptop or on your iOS or Android device. You will also need to create a free Adobe ID account to read the book.
*Includes Academic Complete
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Over 1200 cross-searchable reference e-books on a wide variety of subjects.
Credo Reference E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
ACLS Humanities E-Books This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Salem Science This link opens in a new window
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society This link opens in a new window
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window

The Hathi Trust Digital Library

HIST 675 Seminar in History: American Memory - Museums, Historic Sites, and Monuments: Finding Books & E-Books

How to Find Books on the Shelf

Government documents

Relevant E-Books available through Forsyth Library

Reference E-books

E-Book Databases