HIST 112: U.S. in Perspective since 1865 (Pawlikowski)

The library has thousands of digital books that you can read online or download.  Whether you are on campus or away from campus, you will be able to use these digital books to complete your projects. 

Our EBook Central books have several ways to search inside the book:

• Look at the Table of Contents
• Check the Index for key words or phrases related to your topic
• Once you click on any chapter in the book, a "Search within Book" option will appear on the left; use that to search for specific terms, names, etc.

Best Practice in using Ebook Central:

• You can read books in your browser without downloading them.
• Sign in when you use it (upper right corner; use your cord email sign in).
• Add books to your "Bookshelf" -- this will store them for your use later, even if you don't check them out/download them.
• Use the highlighter and sticky notes to help you study or to emphasize quotations (when you sign back in later, it will remember all of your notes, even if you didn't download the book).
• If your book is being used by your whole class, download individual chapters directly from your browser without downloading or checking out the whole book. For our 1-user license books, this allows others to see and read the chapter.

Books often contain primary sources. These are sometimes gathered together in anthologies about a period, but are often full book-length modern editions of documents original to the period that you are studying. In searching the catalog, you may have good luck using your topic terms as the first or second search term and then using the type of document you are seeking as the final search term (see list of suggestions below). Using the main search box and clicking on the "Books" circle will help limit your results to books.

When searching these two resources, choose a BROAD term and pair it with a type of document. So, you might try “your keyword” and “diaries” together to retrieve resources recording individuals’ experiences.

Some types of documents include: