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Online Reference Shelf: History

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Biographies

American Indian Biographies. Salem Press (2005)  EBSCO eBook

Ancient Writers, Greece and Rome. Scribner's (1982) Gale eBooks

Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers. Routledge (2002)  EBSCO eBook

Distinguished Asian Americans. Greenwood (1999) EBSCO eBook

Extraordinary People in Extraordinary Times. Libraries Unlimited (1999).  EBSCO eBook

Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Modern Political Biography. Helicon (2004)  EBSCO eBook

Hutchinson Great Figures in History. Helicon (2005)  EBSCO eBook

Notable Latino Americans. Greenwood (1997)  EBSCO eBook

Who's Who in the Greek World. Routledge (2000)  EBSCO eBook

Who's Who in World War II. Routledge (2003)  EBSCO eBook

World Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Salem Press (2000)  EBSCO eBook

Dictionaries

Dictionary of British Institutions. Routledge (2002)  EBSCO eBook

Dictionary of Contemporary History, 1945 to the Present. Blackwell (1999)  EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Scarecrow Press (1994) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Angola. Scarecrow Press (1992) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso. Scarecrow Press (1998) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Burundi. Scarecrow Press (1997) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Chad. Scarecrow Press (1997) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Congo. Scarecrow Press (1996) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Scarecrow Press (1997) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Eritrea. Scarecrow Press (1998) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Ghana. Scarecrow Press (1995) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Guinea. Scarecrow Press (1995) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Libya. Scarecrow Press (1998) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Madagascar. Scarecrow Press (1995) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Malawi. Scarecrow Press (1993) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Mali. Scarecrow Press (1996) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Mauritania. Scarecrow Press (1996) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Namibia. Scarecrow Press (1994)  EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Niger. Scarecrow Press (1997)  EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Tanzania. Scarecrow Press (1997) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of the 1960s. Greenwood (1999)  EBSCO eBooks

Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands. Scarecrow Press (1994) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of the Ivory Coast. Scarecrow Press (1995) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. Scarecrow Press (1990) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Scarecrow Press (1997) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press (1992) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Uganda. Scarecrow Press (1995) EBSCO eBook

Historical Dictionary of Zambia. Scarecrow Press (1998) EBSCO eBook

Hutchinson Dictionary of 20th-Century World History. Helicon (2005)  EBSCO eBook

Hutchinson Dictionary of American History. Helicon (2005) EBSCO eBook

Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of History. Helicon (2005)  EBSCO eBook

Islamic Desk Reference.  Brill (1994)  EBSCO eBook

Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History. Routledge (2006) EBSCO eBook

Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Judaica. 22 vol. Macmillan (2007) Gale eBook

Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Routledge (1999)  EBSCO eBook

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought. Routledge (2005) EBSCO eBook

Encyclopedia of Religion. 15 vol. Macmillan (2005) Gale eBooks

Encyclopedia of Social History. Routledge (1994)  EBSCO eBook

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. 2 vol. Gale (1999) Gale eBooks

Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Ireland. Helicon (2004)  EBSCO eBOok

Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of Britsh History. Helicon (2004) EBSCO eBook

Women During the Civil War: an Encyclopedia. Routledge (2004)  EBSCO eBook

World History Encyclopedia. 21 vol. ABC-Clio (2011).  Gale eBooks

Handbooks & Guides

Companion to American Indian History. Blackwell (2002) EBSCO eBook

Companion to American Thought. Blackwell (1998) EBSCO eBook

Complete Idiot's Guide to American History. Penguin (1996) EBSCO eBook

Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents. Penguin (2000) EBSCO eBook

Encyclopedia of African American Heritage. Facts on File (1997) EBSCO eBook

Encyclopedia of North American Indians.  Houghton-Mifflin (1996)  EBSCO eBook

Events That Changed Great Britain, from 1066 to 1714. Greenwood (2004) EBSCO eBook

Great American History Fact-finder. Houghton-Mifflin (2004) EBSCO eBook

Historical Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidential Use of Force, 1789-2000. Greenwood (2001) EBSCO eBook

Hutchinson Guide to Britain. Helicon (2004) EBSCO eBook

Reader's Companion to American History. Houghton-Mifflin (1991) EBSCO eBook

Researching World War I. Greenwood (2003)  EBSCO eBook

Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914.  Routledge (2005)  EBSCO eBook

Routledge Companion to Decolonization. Routledge (2006) EBSCO eBook

Routledge Companion to Historical Studies (2006) EBSCO eBook

Routledge Companion to World History Since 1914 (2005) EBSCO eBook

Noteworthy

Encyclopedia of World History. 21 vol ABC-Clio (2011)

 

Focuses on specific themes of human development across cultures era by era, providing the most in-depth, expansive presentation available of the development of humanity from a global perspective.

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World Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Salem Press (2000)

Includes 111 leaders.  All articles include ready-reference listings, including birth and death dates and outstanding contributions.  Each article has three parts:  "Early Life," "Life's Work," and "Summary," which provides an overview of the leader's place in history.  Essays are supplementedby annotated bibliographies, which provide starting points for deeper research.

Encyclopedia of African American Heritage, 1997

This volume provides thorough yet succinct information about Africans who remained on the continent as well as those in the diaspora. The author concentrates most f her attention on indigenous Africans and blacks in the United States but also includes information about descendants of the African motherland who were involuntary and voluntary immigrants to the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Although most of the individuals described herein were intellectual, political, military, scientific, or educational leaders, the author also gives careful attention to musicians, artists, literary figures, and athletes.

Chronologies

Hutchinson Book of Days. Helicon (2005)  EBSCO eBook

 

Historical Atlases/Gazetters

Historical Atlas of Colorado. U. of Oklahoma Press (1993) EBSCO eBook

Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge (2005)  EBSCO eBook

Bibliographies

Dwight D. Eisenhower. Scholarly Resources (1991) EBSCO eBook

Careers

Great Jobs for History Majors. McGraw-Hill Professional (2001) EBSCO eBook