The Department of History is part of Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
"Undergraduate and graduate students of history explore not only events of the past, but also their meaning and implications for their own lives.
The faculty includes historians of the United States, Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and the Ancient World. In addition to geographic and chronological foci, our faculty members are topical experts in fields such as political, social, military and cultural history, with particular interest in political violence, empire, religion, law, women, gender and sexuality, labor, race and ethnicity, and intellectual history."
(From the Department of History Website)
Browsing Library Collections by Call Numbers
Although some older books are perhaps classified in the Dewey Decimal Classification System, most Syracuse University Libraries print resources are classified in and physically arranged according to the alpha-numeric Library of Congress (LC) Classification System. [NOTE: Although they have no physical presence, e-books are also assigned base LC classification numbers to make them findable via Classic Catalog "Call Number" searches.]
The LC system has allocated Class "C" to Auxiliary Sciences of History (which include Biography); Class "D" to World History; and Classes "E" and "F" to the History of the Americas.
“C” and "D" call numbers are assigned to History holdings that are shelved both in the Reference Collection and in the general and oversize stacks on the 2nd floor of Bird Library. “E” and "F" call numbers are assigned to the American History holdings that are shelved in the Reference Collection on the 2nd floor of Bird Library and in the general and oversize stacks on the 3rd floor of Bird Library.
Note: Less frequently used library materials are kept off campus, either at The Warehouse or at The Facility. (The latter is a high-density storage space at 1556 Jamesville Avenue.) Materials in remote storage can be requested for next-business-day delivery to a library on campus.
To see an outline of the entire "C" Class, "D" Class, and/or the "E" and "F" Classes, open the document(s) below. Then click on any Subclasses of interest for outlines of their classification schemes.
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