Research Guide to History 290 - The
Historical Imagination
Using Reference Sources
Resources in the reference collection can be useful for gathering
background information:
- give an overview of a topic area
- introduce historical context, scope, participants
involved
- introduce terms that can be helpful in further searching
- can lead you to additional sources
The following resources are only a sample of those available in McCain
Library. To find additional resources, search SOPHIA.
EXAMPLE: To find encyclopedias or dictionaries with
information on women, try this keyword search in SOPHIA:
women and (encyclopedi* or dictionar*)
Atlases | Bibliographies
| Biographies | Chronologies |
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Atlases
Atlas of American history, edited by Kenneth
T. Jackson. New York: Scribner, 1978. Rev. ed.
Ref. G1201.S1 J3 1978
Times atlas of world history. London: The
Times; Maplewood, N.J. : Distributed by Hammond, 1978.
Ref. G1030 .T54 1978
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Bibliographies
American Historical Association's guide to historical literature,
edited by Mary Beth Norton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
3rd ed.
Ref. D20 .A55 1995 v. 1 - 2
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Biographies
American national biography edited by John
A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Ref. CT213 .A68 1999 v.1 - 24
Dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times
to 1900 by George Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1973.
Ref. DA28 .D45 1973 v.1- 22
Dictionary of scientific biography edited
by Charles Coulston Gillispie. New York: Scribner, 1970-
Ref. Q141 .D5 v.1 - 18
Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia
edited by Anne Commire. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999-2002.
Ref. HQ1115 .W6 1999 v.1 - 17
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Chronologies
Chronology of African American history: from 1492 to the
present by Alton Hornsby, Jr. Detroit: Gale Research,
1997. 2nd ed
Ref. E185 .H64 1997
Chronology of women worldwide: people, places & events
that shaped women's history, edited by Lynne Brakeman.
Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1997.
Ref. HQ1121 .C617 1997
Day by day: the forties, by Thomas M. Leonard
; edited by Richard Burbank and Steven L. Goulden. New York, NY: Facts
on File, 1977.
Ref. D427 .L4
Day by day: the fifties, by Jeffrey D. Merritt
; edited by Steven L. Goulden. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1979.
Ref. D842.5 .M47 1979
Day by day: the sixties, by Thomas Parker
and Douglas Nelson. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1983.
Ref. D840 .P27 1983 v.1 – 2
Day by day: the seventies, by Thomas Leonard,
Cynthia Crippen, and Marc Aronson. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1988.
Ref. D848 .L4 1988 v.1 – 2
Day by day: the eighties, by Ellen Meltzer,
Marc Aronson. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1995.
Ref. D848 .M45 1995 v.1 – 2
Day by day: the nineties, edited by Smita
Avasthi. New York, NY: Facts on File, 2004.
Ref. D856 .D39 2004 v.1 – 2
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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Dictionary of American history, edited by
Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 3rd ed.
Ref. E174 .D52 2003 v.1 – 10
Encyclopedia of American social history,
edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams. New
York: Scribner, 1993.
Ref. HN57 .E58 1993 v.1 - 3
Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century,
edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 2001.
Ref. E169.1 .E626 2001 v.1 – 3
Reference guide to Latin American history,
edited by James D. Henderson, Helen Delpar, and Maurice P. Brungardt.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.
Ref. F1410 .R395 2000
Encyclopedia of Southern history, edited
by David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1979.
Ref. F207.7 .E52
Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history,
edited by Paul Tiyambe. London; New York: Routledge, 2003.
Ref. DT29 .E53 2003
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history,
edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. New York:
Macmillan Library Reference, 1996.
Ref. E185 .E54 1996 v.1 – 5, supplement
Encyclopedia of modern Asia edited by David
Levinson and Karen Christensen. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002.
Ref. DS4 .E53 2002 v.1 - 6
Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century,
edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
Ref. E169.1 .E626 2001 v.1 - 3
Encyclopedia of women in American politics,
edited by Jeffrey D. Schultz and Laura van Assendelft. Phoenix, Arizona:
Oryx Press, 1999.
Ref. HQ1236.5.U6 E53 1999
Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America,
edited by Jeffrey Lehman. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
Ref. E184.A1 G14 2000 v.1 - 3
Modern China: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and
nationalism, edited by Wang Ke-wen. New York: Garland
Pub., 1998.
Ref. JC311 .M54 1998
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