HIST 120/EVST 120/AMST 163/HSHM 204 American Environmental History: Home

Includes many encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference works. Look for relevant titles under headings such as Geography, History, and Political Science. Individual books include A Companion to the City, A Companion to Environmental Geography, and A Companion to American Environmental History.

This is a large library of reference works, including such titles as the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, and several other works that contain articles that are relevant to humanistic approaches to the environment.

Includes The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History and other relevant titles.

Each Cambridge Companion offers a series of thematic essays with bibliographies. Includes The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment and several companions on the literature of cities.

A combined search of the library's books, journal articles, databases, and more. Consider this a Google-like search of a vast amount of resources, but keep in mind some library materials are not indexed by the search. The search refinements and availability of multiple search fields are key to limiting the usually large number of results and finding the most relevant sources.

Searches the books, e-books, journals, government documents, and other physical and digital items owned by the library. Individual journal articles are not retrieved by the search. Best for multi-faceted searches on the Advanced search page in addition to keyword and title searches on the Basic search page.

The online catalog of the Law Library, also known as MORRIS. Orbis does not find these items, but Quicksearch does. Offers the same functionality as Orbis.

An engaging introduction to what primary sources are, how to use them, and where to find them at the Yale University Library.

The platform for searching for special collections -- rare books, unpublished manuscripts, and other unique or rare materials held in the special collections units of the Yale University Library.

This link will take you to the Beinecke Library's homepage. From there, you can also search the Beinecke's digital collections.

Use the Borrow Direct platform to find and borrow books from partner libraries when our copy is checked out or we do not own the item.

WorldCat is a world catalog that contains records for millions of volumes and can be used to find primary and/or secondary source materials that can be requested via Interlibrary Loan for use at Yale.

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Head of Public Services, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Library

John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History