Americans & the Natural World (U.S. Environmental History)

When searching the library catalog for books, you can start with a general keyword search. Then, look at the records retrieved with your keyword search and examine the Subject Heading section of the records. These will help you find more useful books!  Some useful headings for your topic may include:

General:

• Environmental monitoring -- [can add location, e.g. North Carolina]
• Environmental policy -- United States -- History
• Environmentalism -- United States -- History

Specific sites:

• Fort Bragg (N.C.) -- History
• Fort Fisher (N.C.)
• Environmental impact analysis -- North Carolina -- Fort Fisher
• Hurricane damage -- [can add location, e.g. Northeastern states]
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• Hurricane Sandy, 2012

When you click on a subject heading in a record, you are taken to a hierarchical list of headings, so you will also find related headings.

- Search the Randall Library catalog (and other libraries) for history makers' names as authors. This should retrieve their memoirs, diaries and correspondence. 

- As you search subject topics in the catalog, note that the following subdivisions indicate primary source (* indicates it can be used with individuals' names,classes of persons [e.g., soldiers], and organizations) :

• Archives *
• Caricatures and cartoons
• Correspondence *
• Diaries *
• Early works to 1800
• Facsimiles
• Interviews
• Newspapers [e.g., African Americans -- Newspapers]
• Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
• Pamphlets
• Personal narratives (used in relation to specific events only)
• Photographs
• Pictorial works
• Songs and music
• Sources
• Speeches, addresses, etc.*
• Treaties

​​- More suggestions can be found on the  "Primary Sources"  guide.