| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Companion to the Roman Empire | Potter, David S. | DG 311 .P68 2006 |  |
| The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World | Scheidel, Walter | HC 37 .C36 2013 |  |
| A New History of Early Christianity | Freeman, Charles | BR 162.3 .F73 2009 |  |
| Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire | Mattingly, David J. | DG 271 .M183 2013 |  |
| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present | Merriman, John M. | D 228 .M485 2010 |  |
| The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England | Mantoux, Paul Joseph. | HC 254.5 .M33 2014 |  |
| Europe, 1783-1914 | Simpson, William | D 299 .S48 2015 |  |
| Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950 | Berghahn, Volker R. | JC 328.6 .B4713 2002 |  |
| Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 | Applebaum, Anne | DJK 45 .S65A67 2012 |  |
| The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR | Miller, Chris | HC 336.26 .M558 2016 |  |
| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History | Bumsted, J. M. | FC 162 .B85 2009 |  |
| Empires at War: The Seven Years’ War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763 | Fowler, William M. | E 199 .F78 2005 |  |
| Destinies: Canadian History Since Confederation | Francis, R.D. | FC 164 .F73 2011 |  |
| Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History | Conrad, Margaret | FC 500 .N38 2008 |  |
| Indigenous Peoples Within Canada: A Concise History | Dickason, Olive Patricia. | E 78 .C2D536 2023 |  |
| Tiná7 Cht Ti Temíxw = We Come from This Land: A Walk Through the History of the Squamish People | Squamish (First Nation) | E 99 .S7 S68 2024 |  |
| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| A New History of India | Wolpert, Stanley A | DS 436 .W66 2009 |  |
| Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume 2 | McDermott, Rachel Fell | DS 423 .S64 2015 |  |
| A Concise History of Modern India | Metcalf, Barbara D. | DS 461 .M47 2012 |  |
* Want to reserve one of these titles? Email library@alexandercollege.ca with your student # and the book title.
These e-Books are available in the online library collection. Click the title to access the resource.
Martin, Thomas R. 2013
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2017
Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals
Gardiner, Edward Norman. 2020
Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece
Karanika, Andromache 2014
Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great
Billows, Richard A. 2018
An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome
Thommen, Lukas 2012
Bauman, Richard 2011
Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome : Key Sources, with Text, Translation, and Commentary
Lott, J. Bert. 2012
Warfare in the Roman Republic: From the Etruscan Wars to the Battle of Actium
Brice, Lee L. 2014
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times
Pelling, Christopher 2014
The Archaeology of Greece and Rome: Image, Text and Context
Snodgrass, Anthony M. 2016
British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Foster, Stephen 2013
Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France
Poirier, Lisa J. M. 2016
Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast
Martino, Gina M. 2018
How Different It Was: Canadians at the Time of Confederation
Goodspeed, Michael J. 2017
Nicholson, G. W. L. 2015
Suffrage Discourse in Britain During the First World War
Smith, Angela K. 2016
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War: New Edition
Strachan, Hew 2014
Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History
Gatrell, Peter 2014
The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives
Seth, Catriona 2017
The French Revolution: A Tale of Terror and Hope for Our Times
Behr, Harold 2015
The Global Revolution: A History of International Communism 1917-1991
Pons, Silvio 2014
Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions
Bianco, Lucien 2018
Life and Times in Nazi Germany
Pine, Lisa 2016
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Longerich, Peter 2010
The Holocaust: Memories and History
Misal, David 2014
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices
Shandler, Jeffrey 2017
Payne, Stanley G. 2012
The European Union: Policies, Perspectives and Politics
Moldovan, Raluca 2020
Tidridge, Nathan 2015
These handbooks provide information resources about history, and guides about conducting historical research.
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (2012) Mary Lynn Rampolla
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History is a reference for undergraduate history students. This text includes information on historical sources, typical assignments, research, stylistic conventions, documentation, and print & online sources. It can be found in library, under the call number D 13 .R295 2012.
Thomson Nelson Guide to Writing History (2005) by Jeffrey W. Alexander
Thomson Nelson Guide to Writing History is a guide that provides step-by-step instruction for a variety of assignments that students may encounter while studying history. It can be found in the library, under the call number D 13 .A524 2005.
Writing History: A Guide for Canadian Students (2011) by William K. Storey and Towser Jones
Writing History: A Guide for Canadian Students provides history students with the important and current information available on researching and writing historical essays and assignments. It covers how to frame a historical question, and step-by-step advice on interpreting source materials, drawing inferences, and constructing arguments. It can be found in the library, under the call number D 16 .S76 2011.
The Big Six: Historical Thinking Concepts (2013) by Peter Seixas and Tom Morton
The Big Six: Historical Thinking Concepts covers historical thinking concepts to explain how to make history more meaningful to students. This guide can be found in the library, under the call number D 16.25 .S373 2013.
When looking for resources related to HIST, try some of these keywords in your searching :
e.g., Canada AND Confederation AND First Nations
* Interested in learning more about using keywords for research? Check out our videos on how to create and search using keywords on our Research Skills page.
Open access resources are resources that are available to everyone for free online. Links here will lead to sites where you can download textbooks or access journals related to anthropology.
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation by John Douglas Belshaw
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation is a survey text that introduces undergraduate students to important themes in North American history to 1867. It provides room for Aboriginal and European agendas and narratives, explores the connections between the territory that coalesces into the shape of modern Canada and the larger continent and world in which it operates, and engages with emergent issues in the field.
Canadian History: Post-Confederation by John Douglas Belshaw
Canadian History: Post-Confederation introduces aspects of the history of Canada since Confederation. “Canada” in this context includes Newfoundland and all the other parts that come to be aggregated into the Dominion after 1867.
U.S. History by P. Scott Corbett
U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention paid to issues of race, class, and gender.
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500.
More than 6,000 Open Access e-books from 75+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.
A website dedicated to teaching history students six distinct but closely related historical thinking concepts: Establishing historical significance, use primary source documents, identify continuity and change, analyze cause and consequence, take historical perspectives, and understand the ethical dimension of historical interpretations.
Includes recorded history lectures and other resources.
The news magazine of the American Historical Association.
Do you need help figuring out what a primary source is? Do you want to know more about where to find primary sources for your assingment? Watch the short video for more information!
Historical news footage, a useful resource for assignments that allow for video resources.
The Canadian Letters and Images Project
An online archive of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves.
Canadian War Museum: Democracy at War
A collection of more than 140,000 clippings, arranged by subject and date, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of World War II.
Formerly the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, a non-profit dedicated to preserving Canada’s heritage and making it accessible online.
New France New Horizons: On French Soil in America
A collection focused on New France and includes archival documents arranged under 12 themes.
The BC Historical Newspapers project features digitized versions of local historical papers from towns around the province. The titles, which range from the Abbotsford Post to the Ymir Mirror, date from 1859 to 1995.
ProQuest BC Historical Newspapers
Digital news archives for The Province (1894-2010), The Times-Colonist (1884-2010), and The Vancouver Sun (1912-2010).
A large collection of historic photographs, architectural images, historical statistics, and other materials hosted by the University of Chicago.
South Asia Open Archives is a free open-access collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia. SAOA’s collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social and economic history, literature, women and gender, and caste and social structure.
Indian Affairs Annual Reports 1864 – 1990
A collection which contains references from more than 40,700 digitized pages of the original annual reports for the Indian Affairs portfolio for the years 1864 to 1966 and the complete annual reports for the department of Indian Affairs from 1967 to 1990.
Primary Canadian resources such as rare books and first editions; government records; architectural drawings, plans and maps (dating back to the early 16th century), Canadian theses; periodicals; photographic images, including prints, negatives, slides and digital photos; documentaries and silent films, dating as far back as 1897.
A presentation of primary and secondary resources found in the collections of Canada’s National History Society, HBCA – Archives of Manitoba, The Manitoba Museum, Parks Canada and several First Nations communities.
Points to the Past (only accessible from BC)
Points to the Past contains almost 200 million primary resources. Collections include British Library Newspapers, 18th & 19th Century Collections Online, Daily Mail Archives, Smithsonian Collections Online, magazines such as The Economist and Financial Times archives, and more.
Oregon State University History of Science Collection
This collection provides a range of primary sources which refelct scientific expermentation and advancement. Check out their Digitized Primary Sources Online collection for access to a number of different types of primary sources.
McGill Library: Digital Exhibitions & Collections
A collection with over 80 digital projects, it contains primary sources from a wide array of subjects including, art, architecture, history and literature, engineering, medicine, maps, music, and urban design.
Assignments written for HIST courses use the CMS rules for formatting. CMS handbooks are available for your reference in the library or at the Writing and Learning Centre. Online WLC guides can be found here. You can also book an appointment with the Writing and Learning Centre for workshops and one-on-one learning help.
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