HIS 300 - Senior Seminar In History: Comparative Urban History (Lessoff)

The resources and information in this guide will be useful for the research on topics in comparative urban history.

What's in This Guide?

• Texts and Reference Sources

  This section contains links to e-books texts for the course and e-book and print encyclopedias on urban history.

• Online Catalog

  This section covers searching for books Milner's Library Catalog and I-Share Catalog along with key subject terms related to urban history.

• Library of Congress Classification.
  This section shows the Library of Congress call numbers for world history, U.S. history and state and local history.

• Article Databases.
  This section offers links to major databases in education and history with which to locate journal citations and the complete text of articles.

• Primary Sources

  This section offers instructions on how to search for primary sources in books as well as links to major online newspapers.

• Interlibrary Loan

  When materials needed are not held within Milner Library's collections, this section explains how to request items from other libraries.

• Citing Your Sources

  The Chicago Manual of Style is used by History students to cite their sources. This section contains links to the full text of the Chicago Manual as a well as a quick guide and the print volume.