The Library offers over 130 e-book and text collections in specific subject areas. Many of these e-books also available through UC Library Search. Collections that have strong history content include:
UC Berkeley Library arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for American history are listed below. These are all located on Level C of MAIN (Gardner) Stacks.
| E11-E143 | America |
| E75-E99 | Native Americans |
| E101-E135 | Discovery of America |
| E151-E889 | United States |
| E186-E199 | Colonial History |
| E201-E298 | Revolution |
| E456-E665 | Civil War |
| E740-E837 | 20th Century |
| E838-E889 | Late 20th Century |
| E895-E904 | 21st Century |
| F1-F975 | State & Local HIstory |
| F856-870 | California |