History 251 - Davis

Welcome! My name is Laurinda Weisse, the subject librarian for the history program at UNK. This guide has been created to help you locate resources for research for History 251 - U.S. Survey II with Dr. Roger Davis.

You have been assigned a general category from which you need to define a topic to research and write upon.   The corresponding tabs have resources that you can review to help you with your assignment. 

The History Subject Guide has a number of tutorials that can help you through the process of choosing your topic, finding sources, etc.

Please feel free to contact me with your research questions using the contact links, or use the chat widget to connect to the on-call librarian.

Need ideas and/or background information for your research topics? Look for these and similar books in the Library Catalog:

• Muccigrosso, Robert, Ron Blazek, and Teri Maggio. Term Paper Resource Guide to Twentieth-Century United States History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
• Reeves, Thomas C. Twentieth-Century America: a brief history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Heale, M. J. Twentieth-century America : politics and power in the United States, 1900-2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

You can also find a good overview of some important events at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The site includes a solid selection of primary sources as well as essays and lectures on various topics in American history.