Resources in History and Political Science: Home

SOME HOT TOPICS

• Civil Rights Movement
• History of the SDA Church
• The Cold War
• Socialism in American Politics
• History of Political Violence
• American Religious Liberty
• Christianity and capital punishment
• US policy toward Cuba
• America's Global Influence
• Terrorism

Welcome to Oakwood University Libraries' guide to History and Political Science research. Here you will find a variety of sources to support your scholarly work. This guide provides quick access to books, e-books, databases and Internet resources, plus links to historians' blogs and a history poll.

Bookmark this guide for easy retrieval: http://libguides.oakwood.edu/content.php?pid=504715

This guide includes print and online research tools related to the study of history and political science.  It is a selected list of resource materials and is not meant to be exhaustive.  Please see a reference librarian for additional research assistance.

The call numbers for all areas of History are in the following classes. Class C includes material on the auxiliary sciences of history such as Geneologies and Biographies.  Class D is World History, history of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.. In Classes E-F you will find the History of the Americas. Class J is Political Science and Class K is Law.  

Please note that although the majority of the tools are found in the aforementioned classes, you may need to go to other sections to get additional information for complete research.