Wars Involving the U.S.: American Revolution

Subject headings allow you to find books according to broader and narrower topics.

Below are sample subjects. To browse for different, broader, or narrower subjects, go to the library catalog and click "Exact Search." Enter a term and click "subject."

You can start browsing for a broad subject like Education, then look for more specific subjects, such as Education England History 18th century.

Once you know some subject headings, you can also just use them as keywords during an advanced search, using the subject row.

• United States History Revolution 1775-1783 (this phrase begins all the headings below; it has been abbreviated to make the list easier to read, but if you go to type in a heading like those below, always start with this piece)
  
   
• United...1783 African Americans
• United...1783 Biography
• United...1783 Campaigns
• United...1783 Causes
• United...1783 Foreign public opinion
• United...1783 Naval operations
• United...1783 Participation (this covers a variety of ethnic and national groups, Hessian, Irish, etc.; you can also browse just for those groups as sub-topics)
• United...1783 Personal narratives
• United...1783 Prisoners and prisons
• United...1783 Regimental histories (this covers many states; you can browse just for a certain state as a sub-topic)
• United...1783 Religious aspects
• United...1783 Social aspects
• United...1783 Women

Often a variety of primary documents are collected together into a book (usually related to a time period, topic, or theme).

Be aware that each book can contain both primary and secondary sources.