History Reference Books
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[edit] Online Sources
- Countries and Their Cultures - Full text
Entries contain descriptive summaries of countries around the world, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.
- Dictionary of American History - Full text
Coverage of a wide variety of topics in American history.
- American Decades - Full-Text
Decade-by decade 20th-Century historical and biographical entries in 13 categories, including the arts, government, religion and science. Photos, illustrations and text are used to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.
- Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy - Full text
Essays and articles about concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control
- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History - Full text
Brief descriptions of legal issues, profiles of U.S. laws and regulations, details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state, and comprehensive bibliographies.
Unless otherwise noted, all print sources are located in the Reference Stacks on the first floor of the library.
[edit] Chronology
- Chronology of European History, 15,000 B.C. to 1997 (3 vols.)
- The Timetables of History. 3rd ed.
- The Big Book of Dates
[edit] Historians
- The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
- Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary
[edit] Medieval History
- Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages (13 vols.)
- Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia
- Medieval France: An Encyclopedia
- Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia
- Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia
- Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia
[edit] Military History
- Dictionary of Wars
- Magill's Guide to Military History (5 vols.)
[edit] Asia
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (6 vols.)
- The Encyclopedia of Asian History (4 vols.)
[edit] Great Britain
- Handbook of Dates for Students of English History
- The Columbia Companion to British History
- The Oxford Companion to British History





