Course Texts
Historians on History, 3rd edition by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- D16.8 .H57 2017Part I: The Documentary Ideal -- Part II: The Long View: History as Progress -- The National Story -- Marxism -- Part III: Radical Counter-currents: History from Below -- Gender -- Postcolonialism -- Part IV: The Contraction & Expansion of Scale: Microhistory -- Transnational & Global History -- Part V: History as Social Science: Structural History -- The Authority of Numbers -- Reactions -- Part VI: The Cultural Turn: The Impact of Postmodernism -- The New Cultural History -- Memory & Culture -- Part VII: History & Society: The Uses of History -- Engaging with the Public
U. S. History by "U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender."
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Cambridge Core
- Cambridge Core This link opens in a new windowCambridge Core provides access to journals and eBooks on a broad range of subjects. The Cambridge University Press currently publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Here are details about the Libraries' newly expanded collection of Cambridge eBooks
Area Studies: African studies, American studies, Asian studies, European studies, Latin American studies, Middle East studies
History: African history, American history 1861-1900, American history after 1945, American history general interest, Australian History, British history 1066-1450, British history after 1450, British history before 1066, British history general interest, Colonial American history, Cross-discipline history general interest, Diplomatic & international history, Early republic & Antebellum history, East Asian history, Economic history, Environmental history, European history 1000-1450, European history 450-1000, European history after 1450, European history general interest, Global history, History after 1945 general, History of Medicine, History of ideas & intellectual history, History of native American peoples, History of science & technology, History of science general interest, Latin American history, Middle East history, Military history, Regional & world history general interest, Regional history after 1500, Regional history before 1500, Russian & East European history, Social & population history, South Asian history, South-East Asian history, Twentieth century American history, Twentieth century British history, Twentieth century European history, Twentieth century regional history
National Geographic
- National Geographic Virtual Library (1888+) This link opens in a new windowA complete archive of National Geographic magazine containing every page of every issue in full color along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos
Available titles include:
- 1000 Events That Shaped the World
- 1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
- 1001 People Who Made America
- Abraham Lincoln's Extraordinary Era: The Man & His Times
- After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers & Civilians Who Changed America
- Ancient Pioneers: The First Americans
- The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh & the Epic Age of Flight
- Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem & Misery for Every Day of the Year
- Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home
- Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House from the Collections of the Library of Congress & National Archives
- Declassified: 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History
- Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet & American Space Race
- Eyewitness to Gettysburg
- Eyewitness to History: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era
- Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
- Freedom in My Heart: Voices from the U.S. National Slavery Museum
- The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall & the Winning of World War II
- The Golden King: The World of Tutankhamun
- Great Empires: An Illustrated Atlas
- History Book: An Interactive Journey
- I Lie for a Living: Greatest Spies of All Time
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- The Journals of Lewis & Clark
- Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Birthplace of the American Ideal
- Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
- Legacy: Treasures of Black History
- Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure & the Mystery of the Saxons
- Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers & Artists
- The Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas
- The Mississippi & the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchse to Today
- National Geographic Almanac of American History
- National Geographic Almanac of World History
- National Geographic Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics & Terrain of Battle
- National Geographic Concise History of the World: An Illustrated Time Line
- National Geographic Concise History of World Religions: An Illustrated Time Line
- The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
- Radical Lincoln: Inside the Mind of America's Most Fascinating President
- Receding Tide: Vicksburg & Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War
- Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball
- Shiloh, 1862
- Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum: An Autobiography
- A Soldier's Sketchbook: From the Front Lines of World War II
- Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings 1784-1789
- An Uncommon History of Common Courtesy
- An Uncommon History of Common Things, Volumes 1 & 2
- The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War
Oxford Scholarship Online
- Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new windowAccess to the full text of over 4,000 Oxford monographs in Biology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health & Epidemiology, Religion, and Social Work
Available titles include:
- The Historians of Angevin England
- Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Historical Writing
- Historians & Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century
- Historians & the Church of England: Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870-1920
- History, Historians and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan
- The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400-1400
- The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945
SAGE Research Methods
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Sage Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Built upon Sage’s legacy of methods publishing, Sage Research Methods is the essential online tool for researchers.Full text of book, journal, and reference content to aid as students research design methodologies, understand and select methods, conduct research, and write findings.
Includes tools such as:
- Project Planner: find step-by-step guidance to complete your research project
- Which Stats Test: answer questions to see which statistical method is best for your data
The SAGE Handbook of Historical TheoryCall Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- D16.8 .S24 2013"The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments. The book is divided into three key parts, covering: - Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Knowledge of the Past - Part II. Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas in History - Part III. Coda. Post-Postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations."
Researching Life Stories and Family Histories by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- CS16.M62 2000ch3ck availability of print version
The Historical Context -- Collecting & Organizing Family Histories -- Collecting Life Histories -- Analysing Life Histories -- The Biographical Perspective
Taylor & Francis
- Taylor & Francis eBooks (T&F) This link opens in a new windowTaylor & Francis eBooks is a single destination platform with eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science. It includes a librarian dashboard, which provides quick access to MARC and KBART reports, usage data, entitlements and much more. Researchers have a single point of discovery for eBook content, multiple search options, and more.
The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890sCall Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- E741.L45 20151890s: The Beginnings of Modern America -- 1900-1917: The Progressive Era -- 1900-1917: A Progressive Foreign Policy--From Peace to War -- 1917-1920: The Failure of World War I -- 1920-1929: The New Era -- 1929-1936: The Depression & the New Deal -- 1933-1941: Hard Times--Politics & Society -- 1929-1941: The Big Breakdown--The U.S. & the World -- 1941-1947: War & Peace -- 1941-1947: One World into Two -- 1947-1952: The America of the Cold War -- 1952-1957: Eisenhower & the American Consensus -- 1957-1963: New Frontiers at Home & Abroad -- 1963-1968: The Great Society & Vietnam -- 1969-1975: The Imperial Presidency & Watergate -- 1976-1984: New Directions -- 1985-1992: The End of the Cold War -- 1993-2000: The Road to the 21st Century -- 9/11: Causes & Consequences -- 2007-2012: Obama--"America Is a Place Where All Things Are Possible" (Sometimes)
An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- D16.17.F56 20061. Classifying historical data -- 2. Arranging historical data -- 3. Some simple mathematics -- 4. The preliminary analysis of data, I : frequency distribution and charts -- 5. The preliminary analysis of data, II : summary measures -- 6. The analysis of time series -- 7. Relationships between variables -- 8. The problem of imperfect data -- 9. Computers and data processing equipment.
Project Muse
- Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University) This link opens in a new windowIn addition to the library's subscription access to journals, this database provides access to a collection of open access ebooks, including over 130 ebooks within the subject area of history.
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