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Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Dictionaries and More

For primary source documents in reference books, see the "Reference Books" box under the "Primary Sources" tab.  Otherwise the below select specialized encyclopedias provide concise easily accessible background adn other factual inforamtion on a range of topic in U.S. history.

  • Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government & Politics
  • Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War
  • Historical Statistics of the U.S.
  • Oxford compaion to U.S. States History
  • Oxford Companion to American Military History
    Available in print and online.
  • Slavery in America
  • Historical Dictionary of the Cold WAr
    Call Number: Main Reference D843.S547 2000
  • Revolutinary America, 1763-1800
    Call Number: Main Reference E162.P86 1996
  • Encyclopedia of the United States in teh 19th Century
    Call Number: Main Reference E169.1E626 2001 V. 1-3
  • Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture
    Call Number: Main Reference E169.1G7555 2003 V. 1-4
  • Dictioanry of American History
    Call Number: Main Reference E174.D52 2003 V. 1-10
  • Encyclopedia of War and American Society
    Call Number: Main Reference E181.E634 2006 V. 1-3
  • Chronological History of U.S. Foreign Relations
    Call Number: Main Reference E183.7B745 2003 V. 1-3
  • History of American Presidential Elections
    Call Number: Main Reference E183.H58 2002 V. 1-11
  • Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies
    Call Number: Main Reference E45.E53 1993 V. 1-3
  • Encyclopedia of the American Civil War
    Call Number: Main Reference E468.E53 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Cold War Politics
    Call Number: Main Reference E840.T57 2000
  • Encyclopedia of the American West
    Call Number: Main Reference F591.E485 1996 V. 1-4
  • Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
    Call Number: Main Reference F851.5 2008
 

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