Daniel Webster College :: Library: Timelines

SCOPE: There are numerous sources in the library that help the student find information on a particular time period in history. These sources are referred to as timelines or chronologies, which provide detailed description and analysis of a specific year, decade, or timeframe.

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES (located in the Reference Collection)

REF E169.1.B664 1990 American Chronicle

REF E740.7.E53 1996 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century

REF D421.G627 2002 Great Events: 1900-2001

REF E174.5.W46 1991 The U.S.A.: A Chronicle in Pictures

SPECIALIZED REFERENCE SOURCES

REF E462.D38 1996 Dont Know Much About the Civil War

REF E743.5.K57 1996 Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era

REF E468.H556 2000 American Civil War Almanac

REF E185.H64 1991 Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present

REF E841.C575 2001 The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

REF D848.M45 1995 Day by Day, the Eighties

REF D842.5.M47 1979 Day by Day, the Fifties

REF D427.L4 Day by Day, the Forties

REF 840.P27 1983 Day by Day, the Sixties

REF E162.P86 1994 Revolutionary America, 1763 to 1800

REF HQ 1121.G74 1994 The Timetables of Womens History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Womens History

REF E168.S55 1996 Victorian America, 1876 to 1913

REF D743.5.P57 1996 World War I: The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941-1945

SUBJECT HEADINGS

To locate books on this topic look in the Baddour Library catalog, do a keyword search on a specific time frame, e.g. 1960's

Some representative books from the circulating collection are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS (Located upstairs in the library; sample suggested titles)

Bloom, Alexander. Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Boyer, Paul S. The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co; 1995.

Cullen, Jim. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

Farber, David R. The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.

Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and the New Deal. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Langguth, A.J. Our Vietnam: The War, 1954-1975. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Leinwand, Gerald. 1927, High Tide of the Twenties. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001.

Parish, Michael E. Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on timelines and chronologies are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, AND TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

United States History-General

American Prospect

Magazine of History

National Interest

Open Access Journals in History

VIDEOS

America 1900 E711 .A43 1998
A Biography of America E17 .B56 2000
The Civil War E468 .C58 1994
Gettysburg Video 552

WEB SITES

dMarie Time Capsule
http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
“On this Day in History” search engine offers a multitude of trivia and information for the history buff and student.

Updated 08/22/2007