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Call Numbers (Library of Congress Classification)

How to find books and other materials using their Library of Congress call numbers.

Class E--History of the Americas

  • 11-143--America
  • 151-909--United States

Subclasses

E11-143--America

E11-29--General

E29--Elements in the population

E31-49.2--North America

E51-73--Pre-Columbian America.  The Indians

E75-99--Indians of North America

E81-83--Indian wars

E99--Indian tribes and cultures

E101-135--Discovery of America and early explorations

E103-110--Pre-Columbian period

E111-120--Columbus

E121-135--Post-Columbian period.  El Dorado

E141-143--Descriptive accounts of America.  Earliest to 1810

E151-889--United States

E151-169.12--General

E171-183.9--History

E171-180--General

E173--Sources and documents

E175-175.7--Historiography

E176-176.8--Biography

E179.5--Historical geography

E181--Military history

E182--Naval history

E183-183.3--Political history

E183.7-183.9--Diplomatic history.  Foreign and general relations.

E183.8--Relations with individual countries

E184-185.98--Elements in the population

E184.5-185.98--Afro-Americans

E185.2-185.89--Status and development since emancipation

E185.96-185.98--Biography.  Genealogy

E186-199--Colonial history (1607-1775)

E186-189--General

E191-199--By period

E191--1607-1689

E195-199--1689-1775

E196--King William's War, 1689-1697

E197--Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713

E198--King George's War, 1744-1748

E199--French and Indian War, 1755-1763

E201-298--The Revolution, 1775-1783

E300-453--Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861

E300-302.6--General

E302--Collected works of American statemen

E302.1--Political history

E302.5-302.6--Biography (Late eighteenth century)

E303-440.5--By period

E303-309--1775-1789.  The Confederation, 1783-1789

E310-337--1789-1809.  Constitutional period

E310.7--Diplomatic history.  Foreign and general relations

E311-320--Washington's administrations, 1789-1797

E321-330--John Adams' administration, 1797-1801

E323--Troubles with France, 1796-1800

E331-337--Jefferson's administrations, 1801-1809

E333--Purchase of Louisiana, 1803

E335--War with Tripoli, 1801-1805

E336-336.5--Neutral trade and its restrictions, 1800-1810

E337.5--Nineteenth century (General)

E337.8-400--Early nineteenth century, 1801/1809-1845

E337.8-340--General

E337.8--Collected works of American statesmen

E339-340-- ­Biography

E341-370--Madison's administrations, 1809-1817

E351.5-364.9--War of 1812

E365--War with Algeria, 1815

E371-375--Monroe's administrations, 1817-1825

E373--Missouri Compromise, 1820

E374--Diplomatic history.  Foreign relations

E376-380--John Quincy Adams' administration, 1825-1829

E381-385--Jackson's administrations, 1829-1837

E384.3--Nullification

E386-390--Van Buren's administration, 1837-1841

E391-392--William H. Harrison's administration, March 4-April 4, 1841

E396-400--Tyler's administration, April 4, 1841-1845

E398--Northeastern boundary disputes, 1783-1845

E401-415.2--Mexican War, 1846-1848

E408--Mexican cessions of 1848

E415.6-440.5--Middle nineteenth century, 1845/1848-1861

E415.6-415.9--General

E415.6--Collected works of American statesmen

E415.8-415.9--Biography

E416-420--Polk's administration, 1845-1849

E421-423--Taylor's administiration, 1849-July 9, 1850

E423--Slavery question, 1849-1853

E426-430--Fillmore's administration, July 9, 1850-1853

E431-435--Pierce's administration, 1853-1857

E433--Slavery question, 1853-1857

E436-440.5--Buchanan's administration, 1857-1861

E438--Slavery question, 1857-1861

E440.5--State of the country, November 1860-March 4, 1861

E441-453--Slavery in the United States.  Antislavery movements

E456-655--Civil War period, 1861-1865

E456-459--Lincoln's administrations, 1861-April 15, 1865

E461-655--The Civil War, 1861-1865

E482-489--Confederate States of America

E491-586--Armies.  Troops

E591-600--Naval history

E660-738--Late nineteenth century, 1865-1900

E660-664--General

E660--Collected works of American statesmen

E661.7--Diplomatic history.  Foreign and general relations

E663-664--Biography

E666-670--Andrew Johnson's administration, April 15, 1865-1869

E668--Reconstruction, 1865-1877

E669--Purchase of Alaska, 1867

E671-680--Grant's administrations, 1869-1877

E681-685--Hayes' administration, 1877-1881

E686-687.9--Garfield's administration, March 4-September 19, 1881

E691-695--Arthur's administration, September 19, 1881-1885

E696-700--Cleveland's first administration, 1885-1889

E701-705--Benjamin Harrison's administration, 1889-1893

E706-710--Cleveland's second administration, 1893-1897

E711-738--McKinley's first administration, 1897-1901

E713--Annexation in 1898 of Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico

E714-735--War of 1898 (Spanish-American War)

E740-837.7--Twentieth century

E740-749--General

E740.5--Sources and documents

E742.5--Collected works of American statesmen

E743-743.5--Political history

E743.5--Un-American activities

E744-744.5--Diplomatic history.  Foreign and general relations

E745--Military history

E746--Naval history

E747-748--Biography

E751--McKinley's second administration, March 4-September 14, 1901

E756-760--Theodore Roosevelt's administrations, September 14, 1901-1909

E761-765--Taft's administration, 1909-1913

E766-783--Wilson's administrations, 1913-1921

E768--Purchase of Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands), 1917

E780--Internal history during World War I

E784-805--1919-1933.  Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era.  "The twenties"

E785-786--Harding's administration, 1921-August 2, 1923

E791-796--Coolidge's administration, August 2, 1923-1929

E801-805--Hoover's administration, 1919-1933

E806-812--Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administrations, 1933-April 12, 1945

E813-816--Truman's administrations, April 12, 1945-1953

E835-837.7--Eisenhower's administrations, 1953-1961

E838-889--Later twentieth century, 1961-2000

E838-840.8--General

E838.3--Sources and documents

E839.5-839.8--Political history

E839.8--Un-American activities

E840-840.2--Diplomatic history.  Foreign and general relations

E840.6-840.8--Biography (General)

E841-843--Kennedy's administration, 1961-November 22, 1963

E842.9--Assassination, funeral, memorial services, etc.

E846-851--Johnson's administrations, November 22, 1963-1969

E855-861--Nixon's administrations, 1969-August 9, 1974

E860-861--Watergate Affair.  Resignation

E865-868--Ford's administration, August 9, 1974-1977

E872-875--Carter's administration, 1977-1981

E876-880--Reagan's administrations, 1981-1989

E877.3--Assassination attempt

E881-884--George H. W. Bush's administration, 1989-1993

E885-889--Clinton's administrations, 1993-2001

E895-904--Twenty-first century

E902-904--George W. Bush's administrations, 2001-2009

E907-909--Barack Obama's administration, 2009-