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American History Since 1877: Books

Library Accounts

To check out items at NSU Libraries, the Information Desk is located on the 1st floor, north entrance of the John Vaughan Library. Information Desk contact phone number is 918-444-3235.

Loan Periods for check out items:

  • Three Weeks - for items from the Main Collection, Y Collection, Government Publications, and Curriculum Materials
  • One Week - for Audio Visual items (CDs or DVDs)
  • Library Use only - Periodicals, Newspapers, Magazines, and Reference materials
  • Special Collections items are non-circulating and must be used in Special Collections
  • Reserve Collection - Varies (check with the Information Desk for specifics)

Number of items that can be checked out at one time:

  • Undergraduate Students: 15
  • Graduate Students: 50

Print Limits:

Students are provided a 100 page print limit in the library at the start of each semester. Any additional pages can be purchased at the Information Desk. For additional information about borrowing, renewals, returns, and services, check out the Circulation link below.

Library Books

Use the Library Discovery system (link below) to search for books by keyword, title, author, or by using the subject search option. To relate your research focus to American history since 1877, look for events, the decade, a particular event, movement, protest, treaty, law, or act, war, or presidential administration or era. 

Example search terms:

  • black power
  • ​kent state
  • vietnam war
  • cold war
  • immigration and american history

For information about American history or events since 1877-

  • american history AND 19th century OR 20th century
  • great depression in america
  • ​history AND great depression
  • progressive era
  • Jim Crow
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Korean War

For additional tips and information about book searching see the Book Searching tab in this guide. 

WorldCat

For additional book titles not owned by NSU Libraries search the WorldCat databases. The WorldCat databases will locate items (books and more) from other libraries as well as items owned by the NSU Libraries.

Discovery Searching

Through the NSU Libraries Discovery system, use keyword terms or subject terms to search for items. Oklahoma history and Native American information library records and vertical files are predominately located in the Special Collections of the John Vaughan Library. Additional copies of books and related materials can be found in the library's Main Collection. For information about NSU history, the NSU Archives department provides archival materials.  

Library Discovery system search: NOTE: For items owned by NSU Libraries, use the  "Books & Media" tab. 

  • Church buildings - Oklahoma - Tahlequah (Note: for information about church buildings in Tahlequah)
  • Rural churches - Oklahoma - Tahlequah
  • Festivals - Oklahoma - Tahlequah  (Note: locates information about Wilson Rawls' book, Where the Red Fern Grows, and the Red Fern Festival held in Tahlequah, Oklahoma)
  • Seminary Hall Tahlequah Okla
  • Cherokee syllabary
  • ​Cherokee National Female Seminary
  • Indians of North America Oklahoma Tahlequah
  • Northeastern Seminary Hall History
  • Cherokee Seminary (Male and Female)
  • Tahlequah Oklahoma History (Note: keyword search in "All Collections")
  • Oklahoma Tahlequah (Note: subject search in "All Collections")

eBooks

Tip: When searching for information on topics in the database, EBSCOhost eBook Collection, use keywords or phrases. Be sure to enclose phrases inside quotation marks if you wish to keep the two terms together. The letters are not case sensitive.

  • cherokee indian history
  • five civilized tribes
  • ​postmodernism and history
  • american labor and cold war
  • stonewall jackson
  • watergate
  • ​prohibition united states history

For information about American history or events since 1877-

  • american history AND 19th century OR 20th century
  • great depression in america
  • ​history AND great depression
  • progressive era
  • Jim Crow
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Vietnam War
  • Vietnam protest

Reference Books (JVL)

The following titles can be found at the John Vaughan Library in the Reference Collection. This collection is "library use only."