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History: American

Selective List of Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

American Decades, 1900-1999
Call Number: E 169.12 .A419 (Ref)
American Revolution, 1775-1783 : An Encyclopedia
Call Number: E 208 .A433 1993
Encyclopedia of American History
Call Number: E 174 .E53 2010 (Ref)
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History
Encyclopedia of Women in American History
Call Number: HQ 1410 .E53 2002 (Ref)
Hutchinson Dictionary of American History

Online Reference Databases

There are entire online databases full of reference material.

Credo General Reference
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Oxford Reference
Included in this database are the following titles: Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation.

Cambridge Histories Online

Cambridge Histories Online
A historical reference compendium, covering 15 broad academic subject areas, that allows instant access to the 300+ volumes in the Cambridge Histories series.

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