| Specific requirements for earning the History major at Oglethorpe University can be found on the department website.
Books
Books in the Oglethorpe Library are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system. Books on History
can be found under the C, D, E, or F classification. Books under the C classification will be found on the bottom floor of the library on the right side. Books with the D, E, or F classification will be found on the first floor of the library. More detailed information on the call number location of History materials can be found on the Library of Congress website according to the specific letter: C, D, E, or F.
Be sure to check the Reference Books section located near the computers on the main floor for encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other general information resources.
Databases (Accessed through GALILEO)
- The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery
- Academic Search Complete
- Ancestry Library Edition
- Annals of American History
- Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917
- ArchiveGrid
- ArchivesUSA
- ArticleFirst
- Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding Aids
- Barnard's Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign, 1866
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930's: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Civil Rights Digital Library
- Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 Collection
- Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, January 1881 to April 1883
- The Cornelius C. Platter Civil War Diary, 1864-1865
- Current Contents Connect
- Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Essay and General Literature Index
- For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Women's Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920
- Georgia Department of Archives and History
- Georgia Historic Books
- Georgia Historic Newspapers
- Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library
- History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter Reed
- History Reference Center
- Humanities Abstracts
- "Integrated in All Respects": Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation
- The Jimmy Carter Presidential Daily Diary Online
- Joseph Henry Lumpkin Family Papers
- JSTOR
- Macon Telegraph Archive
- Native American Documents
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Pandora: Yearbook of the University of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library System
- Project Muse
- Research Library
- The Red and Black: An Archive of the University of Georgia's Student Newspaper
- Robert E. Williams Photographic collection: African- Americans in the Augusta, Georgia Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
- Robert Toombs, Letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs, 1850-1867
- Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January-July 1877
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922
- Ships for Victory: J. A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia
- "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830's-1940's
- The University Bumble Bee: From the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscripts Library
- Vanishing Georgia
- Wilson Humanities Full Text
- Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition
- World History Collection
Journals
A list of journals owned by the library on History can be found here.
Websites
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