Resource Guide:
American Century

• US History since 1877
• Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
• CIA in the Third World

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• American History Documents By Era (DocsTeach)
• Theordore Roosevelt Association
• Reforming their world: women in the Progressive Era
• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
• Roaring 20's Resources (Christopher Newport University LibGuide)
• The Great Depression: Timeline and Documents (Federal Reserve History)
• Civil Rights Resources (Library of Congress)
• Facing History (Civil Rights Movement)
• Watergate Scandal Case (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Immigration stations--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--1900-1910.
• Suffrage–United States–History
• Social gospel
• Prohibition–United States
• Populist Party (U.S.)
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
• Yellow journalism–1900-1910
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArchiveGrid
• Credo Reference
• Defining Documents in American History
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• HeinOnline
• Humanities International Complete
• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• JSTOR
• JURN
• MasterFILE Premier
• Military & Government Collection
• OAISter
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Oxford Reference
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Wiley Online Library
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progessive Era
• American History
• Journal of American History
• Journal of American Ethnic History
• Journalism History
• Economic History Review
• Eugenics Quarterly

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.