History - Modern World History: Books

Useful Call Numbers

Call numbers for history typically start with D, E or F

• D  History: General and Old World

  • D400-475 20th Century

• D501-680 World War I

  • D720-728 Period Between the World Wars

  • D731-838 World War II

• DA Great Britain

  • DA815-DA826 19th-20th Centuries

• DB Austria - Hungary - Czechoslovakia
• DC France
• DD Germany
• DF Greece
• DG Italy
• DH Low Countries
• DJ Netherlands
• DK Russia - Former Soviet Republics - Poland
• DL Northern Europe
• DP Spain - Portugal
• DQ Switzerland
• DR Balkans
• DS  Asia: China - India - Japan
• DT Africa
• DU Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, etc.

• F  Canada and Latin America

  • F1001-1140

  • F1201-3799 Latin America

Searching for Library Sources

Combined Author/Title option

• quickest way to find an item if you know the author and title
• use the Author or Title options only if you know the exact forms

Subject option

• yields only items catalogued under prescribed subject headings (i.e., Library of Congress headings; see list of possible subject headings below). If you are not familiar with these, use:

Keyword Option (words from the title)

• usually yields more hits as it searches author, subject headings, titles and series

Subject Keyword is also useful. 

Examples of subject headings:

Note the numerous sub-headings when searching the history of a particular country. Many refer to specific time periods.

• Great Britain--history--19th century

• Imperialism--history—19th century

• Latin America -Foreign Relations- United States