History: Find Sources

Use these numbers to help you locate books in our stacks.

900-999 History & Geography

• 900-909 History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
  • 909 World history
• Geography & travel
  • 910 Geography and travel
    911 Historical geography
    912 Maps and plans of surface of earth and of extraterrestrial worlds
• 920-929 Biography and genealogy
• 930-939 History of the ancient world (to ca. 499)
• 940-949 History of Europe
• 950-959 History of Asia
• 960-969 History of Africa
• 970-979 History of North America
• 980-989 History of South America
• 990-999 History of other areas
  • 990-996 History of Australia and ocean cultures
  • 999 History of extraterrestrial worlds (Weirdly, we have no books in the 999s.)

See also:

• 109 Philosophy histories and biographies
• 508 Natural history
• 609 History of technology
• 708 History of the arts
• 759 History of painting
• 809 History of literature

The analysis of primary sources is central to historical research.

Primary sources include documents or artifacts created during the time period you are studying.

Witnesses or participants in events created these items. by a witness to or participant in an event.  They can be firsthand testimony or evidence created during the time period that you are studying. a primary source is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.

Types of primary sources:

artifacts, documents, diaries, manuscripts, autobiographies, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music.