African Americans: History and Culture 

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The LPC Library, like most academic libraries, uses the Library of Congress classification system (LC). 

Books on the history of the United States have a call # starting with a E and within the E's books about African Americans have call numbers of E 185. 

You might also see other call numbers depending on the subject area.  For example, books on jazz will be the music section (M) or desegregation in the law section (KF). 

List of recently added items to the library collection

The following list provides a sampling of what is available in the LPC Library. 

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Titles and Call Numbers

African American Foodways: Explorations of History & Culture   TX715.A2428 2007

American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm    E185.63.B93 2001

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It   E185.A97 2000

The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era   BR563.N4.P49 2002

The Black Soldier: 1492 to the Present   E185.63.C57 2000

Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era   E540.N3.B63 2002

Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier   E185.97.W694 T83 2002

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists   N6538.N5.F27 2005

Harlem's Hell Fighter: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I   D570.33 369TH.H37 2003

"I Will wear no chain!": A Social History of African-American Males   E185.86.B635 2000

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present   TR23.W55 2000

Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance   PS153.N5.T45 2001