History
A guide for Social Studies research at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas.
Local Library Catalogs
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- DCML Catalog (Phoenix)Search to find books held in the Nelson American Indian College in Phoenix, AZ.
- Nicholas P. Sims Library Catalog Search the catalog of Waxahachie's public library.
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Selected eBooks
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (4 Volume Set) by ISBN: 9780198662624Publication Date: 2010
Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 by
The first comprehensive study of women's dress reform During the latter half of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries, books, periodicals, and newspapers were rich in discussions related to women's roles, health, beauty, and dress. Many believed that restrictive and unwieldy women's fashions compromised health, distorted women's true physical beauty, and curtailed the potential role of women in society. Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America during this period and the types of garments adopted by women to overcome the challenges posed by fashionable dress.
ISBN: 9781631010996Publication Date: 2015
Victorian Fashion Accessories by
In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion Accessories explores how women's use of gloves, parasols, fans and vanity sets revealed their class, gender and colonial aspirations.The colour and fit of a pair of gloves could help a middle-class woman indicate her class aspirations.The sun filtering through a rose-colored parasol would provide a woman of a certain age with the glow of youth. The use of a fan was a socially acceptable means of attracting interest and flirting.Even the choice of vanity set on a woman's bedroom dresser reflected her complicity with colonial expansion. By paying attention to the particular details of women's accessories we discover the beliefs embedded in these artefacts and enhance our understanding of the culture at large. Beaujot's engaging prose illuminates the complex identities of the women who used accessories in the Victorian culture that created and consumed them. Victorian Fashion Accessories is essential reading for students and scholars of, history, gender studies, cultural studies, material culture and fashion studies, as well as anyone interested in the history of dress.
ISBN: 9780857853196Publication Date: 2013-08-15
Selected Print Books
50 Events That Shaped American Indian History by Call Number: 305.8009 M385ISBN: 9781440835766Publication Date: 2016
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Call Number: 306.36209 B534ISBN: 9780807047620Publication Date: 2017
Slow Train to Sonora by
In 1911, veteran army officer C.W. Langhorne accepts a clandestine assignment that will carry him into revolutionary Mexico for the War Department along with the handsome young ladies' man, Lieutenant Calvin Jester. While Langhorne runs afoul of the Acordada, the Mexican secret police organization, Jester finds danger of his own enjoying the attentions of both Fabiana Medina, a rich young beauty, and the poor but sincere Luna Garcia while he recovers from a serious injury. Destruction closes in on both men, whether from shadowy killers or jilted lovers, in a breakneck race for the border and safety. Slow Train to Sonora combines action, romance, and suspense and is sure to keep readers of both traditional Westerns and historical thrillers on board to the last stop.
Call Number: 813.630874 U26ISBN: 9781432834135Publication Date: 2017
Texas: A Historical Atlas by
Texas: A Historical Atlas accurately reflects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Its 86 entries feature 175 maps illustrating the most significant aspects of the state's history, geography, and current affairs. The heart of the book is its wealth of historical information. The exploration of Texas and its settlement by various peoples is covered, as well as modern and contemporary Texas with its hurricanes and highways, power plants and population trends.
Call Number: 911.764 S832ISBN: 9780806143071Publication Date: 2012
Warfare in Medieval Europe C. 400-C. 1453 by
Warfare in Medieval Europe c. 400-c.1453 provides a thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, including its economic, technological, social, and religious contexts, from the late Roman Empire to the end of the Hundred Years' War. Bernard and David Bachrach explore the origins of the institutions, physical infrastructure, and intellectual underpinnings of medieval warfare and trace the ways in which medieval warfare was diffused beyond Europe to the Middle East and beyond.
Call Number: 355.0209 B124ISBN: 9781138887657Publication Date: 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification Outline
- 320: Political science (Politics and government)
- 321: Systems of governments and states
- 322: Relation of the state to organized groups and their members
- 323: Civil and political rights
- 324: The political process
- 325: International migration and colonization
- 326: Slavery and emancipation
- 327: International relations
- 328: The legislative process
- 350: Public Administration and military science
- 355: Military science
- 356: Foot forces and warfare
- 357: Mounted forces and warfare
- 358: Air and other specialized forces and warfare
- 359: Sea forces and warfare
- 910: Geography and travel
- 930: History of the ancient world to ca. 499
- 940: History of Europe
- 940.4: World War I
- 940.54: World War II
- 950: History of Asia
- 960: History of Africa
- 970: History of North America
- 973: United States of America
- 973.1: Pre-colonial period
- 973.2: Colonial period
- 973.3: Revolution and Confederation periods
- 973.4: Constitutional period
- 973.5: 1809-1845
- 973.6: 1845-1861
- 973.7: Administration of Abraham Lincoln
- 973.8: Reconstruction period
- 973.9: 1901-present
- 974-979: Regions of the US
- 973: United States of America
- 980: History of South America
- 990: History of Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica, extraterrestrial worlds