1. Use the footnotes, bibliographies or reference lists that you find in books to lead you to other relevant material.
2. Think about using portions of books. A single chapter of a book may be just the right thing. (Cite it properly as a chapter.)
Seymour Library has a superlative collection of books on the history of the United States. The books in Seymour Library are (mostly) arranged on the shelves using the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. This means that books are grouped together by subject, allowing you to quickly find related materials on a topic.
Browse these areas on the basement level of Seymour Library:
| E51 - E99 | Indians: archaeology, anthropology & history; some on fur traders and Indian captivities | |
| E100 - E139 | Discovery and early exploration of America | |
| F1 - F975 |
U.S. local history, arranged by region |
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| F590s | U.S. West | |
| Dewey section 970s | U.S. history (books published before ~1970) |
Non-fiction books in library catalogs like Knox Primo are assigned subject headings. This practice allows books to be grouped together by topic, and also tells you what the books are about.
When you find a relevant book in Knox Primo, look at the subject headings. All the subject headings are links, and if you click on one of them you will see all the other books in Knox Primo that also use that subject heading.
