This class is for general works on the history of civilization. Books in this class tend to be either very general, or to treat the topic theoretically. In either case, the emphasis is on history of civilization, not history of places or people.

• CB3-151: General works
• CB195-197: Civilization and race
• CB203-226: Europe
• CB245: Western
• CB251: Eastern and Western
• CB305-430: By period
  • CB311: Ancient
  • CB351-354: Medieval
  • CB357-411: Early modern
  • CB425-430: 1900 to the present
• CB440-482: Relation to special topics

The HPNL collection is weak in these call number ranges, although we do have small collections in archaeology (subclass CC), archives (subclass CD), and heraldry (subclass CR).

• CC1-960: Archaeology
  • CC100-101: History of
  • CC135: General works
• CD1-6471: Diplomatics. Archives. Seals
  • CD921-4279: Archives
    • CD947: Philosophy of. Theory of
    • CD950-971: General works
    • CD1040-4279: Guides, indexes, and finding aids
• CE1-97: Technical Chronology. Calendar
• CJ1-6661: Numismatics
• CN1-1355: Inscriptions. Epigraphy
• CR1-6305: Heraldry

• CS1-3090: Genealogy
• CT21-9999: Biography
  • CT21-22: Biography as an art or literary form
  • CT31-83: History of biographical literature. Lives of biographers
  • CT93-206: General collective biography
  • CT210-3150: National biography
  • CT3200-9999: By subject
    • CT3200-3830: Women (Collective)
    • CT3990: Academicians. Scholars. Savants