Tomball College Library

30555 Tomball Parkway

http://tclibrary.nhmccd.edu 832-559-4211

Early American History

This guide will help you locate resources on early American history. The American Presidents during the early war years are also listed here.

Listed below here are the early American wars:

The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies.

The was fought between the and Great Britain. This war was fought from 1812 to 1815.

The Mexican-American War was fought between the United States and Mexico between 1846 and 1848.

The was fought between the northern and the southern states of the United States of America between the time period of 1861 and 1865.

Books

The Library Catalog includes books (and audio-visual materials) for all colleges in the district and all branches of the Harris County Public Library system and Montgomery County Public Library System.

If you can't find particular material at this Library, you can request it from the other libraries by using your current library card.

If you cannot locate what you need, please contact a Reference Librarian.

Useful Keywords: Type one of these keywords listed under different categories in the "Subject Keyword" field in the Catalog

General Keywords Notable American women, Military - Biography Generals, Politicians and Generals - Biography Reformers Military - History Frederick Douglass Presidents -- United Betsy Ross Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain States – History Dorothea Lynde Dix William Sherman Clara Barton George Washington Mary Bickerdyke Robert E. Lee John Adams Susie King Taylor American Thomas Jefferson Abigail Scott Duniway American Civil War leaders James Madison Susan B. Anthony James Monroe Elizabeth C. Stanton Early American Wars John Quincy Adams Deborah Sampson Gannett Harriet Tubman American Revolutionary War Martin Van Buren Jane Long Mexican American War War of 1812 John Tyler Nathanael Green American Civil War James K. Polk Robert Howe Zachary Taylor Israel Putnam Millard Fillmore John Paul Jones Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Paul Revere Patrick Henry Andrew Johnson George B. McClellan Ulysses Grant

Useful Call Numbers:

E 178, E 209 E 468, E 444 HQ 1413, JK 1846

E457.2 - E 672 UB210 .L264 2002 355

973.3 920 973.7092

Click here for a short list of circulating books (books that you can check out) and reference books (books that you can use in the library) available in the library. You may find more books on the subject in the same Call Number area.

Check the library catalog for more books by typing a keyword in the box asking for "Subject Keyword". Some keywords are mentioned above.

Articles and more

Here is a list of databases to give you information on your topic.

Academic Search Complete Provides articles, often full-text, from newspapers, magazines and academic journals.

Biographies Reference Bank Includes over 45,000 biographies for people present and past.

History Study Center An online history resource that covers fourteen centuries of world history articles and essays from rare primary sources to key journals. netLibrary This includes about 35,000 electronic books.

New York Times Historical 1851 - 2004 Includes full-text and full-image articles.

ProQuest Research Library Provides articles, often full-text, from newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.

Selected Web Sites

American Revolutionary War Mexican American War (1775-1783) (1846-1848) http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/ http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/ http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/ http://www.multied.com/mexican/ http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/ http://dig.lib.niu.edu/mexicanwar/about.html http://www.42explore2.com/revolt.htm http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/qdm2.html http://www.ushistory.org/march/links.htm http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/INDEX2.HTM http://revolutionarywar.military.com/ http://theamericanrevolution.org/battles.asp

War of 1812 (1812-1815) American Civil War (1861-1865) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/britain/br1814m.htm http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ http://www.jmu.edu/madison/gpos225-madison2/war1812.htm http://www.civil-war.net/ http://www.umuc.edu/fyionline/october_01/fyionline5.html http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/ http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=21 http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/bitner/ http://library.louisville.edu/government/subjects/war/1812.html http://mirkwood.ucs.indiana.edu/acw/ http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/ http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/CW/war http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html http://www.us-civilwar.com/leaders.htm Revised 09/21/07