LibGuides: History: Find Books, eBooks, and Videos

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The CCA Library has a large collection of books in two forms: physical and electronic. Both physical books and electronic books (often referred to as e-books) can be used as references for research. Type your keywords into the search box below to search through the Library catalog.

Course Reserve Textbooks

CCA Course Reserves List
The library keeps a copy of many required textbooks, study guides, DVDs, and other items that instructors place on reserve for class. Search course reserves by name, department, course number, term, notes or instructor name to see if your textbook is available at the library.

Selected History Books

Ebook Databases

Academic eBook Collection This link opens in a new window This multidisciplinary collection includes more than 237,000 e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. 
Open Access (OA) eBook Collection This link opens in a new window Open Access eBook collection of thousands of DRM-free eBooks across all disciplines.
Poetry and Short Story Reference Source This link opens in a new window Full-text database containing thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans and learning guides. It also includes high-quality videos and audio recordings from the Academy of American Poets.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window Project Gutenberg is an online library of over 70,000 free eBooks. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health journals, books and reference content, this platform uniquely supports an uninterrupted workflow so researchers move seamlessly among books and journals and across topics and disciplines.

Film and Movie Database

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Curated videos spanning a wide variety of subjects. Videos include content from leading sources such as PBS, the BBC, ABC News, HBO and more.

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Ebook Databases

Film and Movie Database