LibGuides: HIS 4372: The New South: Book Series

The Story of Civilization

The Story of Civilization by Durant, Will
Call Number: CB53 D85
Volumes that apply to this course:
5. The Renaissance; a history of civilization in Italy from 1304-1576 A.D.--6. The Reformation.--7. The Age of Reason begins, 1558-1648.--8. The age of Louis XIV, 1648-1715.

Harvard Classics

Harvard Classics by Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
Call Number: AC1 .A4 v.1 - 50
Publication Date: 1909
The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot (pictured at left) and first published in 1909.

The Great Ideas

The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Editor in chief (pictured at left in 1921)
Call Number: AC 1.G7
Publication Date: 1952
Contains a selection of the works of many great writers, including Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid, Virgil, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs, Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, John Milton, Pascal, Sir Issac Newton, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Locke, Kant, Charles Darwin, Carl Marx, Fredrich Engles, Leo Tolstoy, William James, Sigmund Freud, and others.

Great Events from History

The Great Events in History Series, published by Salem Press, The series covers over one thousand historical events of significance. Each event included contains the type of event, the time or date of the event, the location of the event, the principal personages associated with the event, a summary of the event, and the pertinent literature about the event.

Great Events from History, North American Series by Frank N. Magill (Editor); John L. Loos (Consultant Editor); Christina J. Moose (Editorial Coordinator)
Call Number: Ref. E45 .G74 1997 v.1 - V. 4
ISBN: 089356429X
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
Great events from history: Ancient and medieval series by Magill, Frank N. 1907-1997.
Call Number: D59 .M26 v.1 - v.3
Publication Date: 1972
Great events from history: modern European series by Magill, Frank N. 1907-1997.
Call Number: D209 .M29 v.1 - v.3
Publication Date: 1973
Great Events from History: Worldwide Twentieth Century Series by Frank N. Magill, ed.
Call Number: D 421.G63 V.1 - V.3
Publication Date: 1980

World Almanac and Book of Facts

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1868
Call Number: AY 67.N5 1868
Publication Date: 1868
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Publication Date: 1869, 1871-1875, 1893, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1904-1909, 1911-1915, 1920, 1923
These World Almanacs have been digitized by the HathiTrust Digital Library, and are from the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The University of California.