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History:
A Research Guide

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I. Reference Sources

Guides and Bibliographies

American Historical Association. Guide to Historical Literature. George Frederick Howe, et al., ed. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
[Ref. D1 .A51 .1961]

American National Biography - Online (Pre-Colonial - Present)
Includes descriptive bibliographies, primary sources, articles, monographs, and obituaries.

Fritz, Ronald H., Brian E. Coutts and Louis A. Vyhnanek. Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2004. [Ref. D20 .F72 .2004]

Rampolla, Mary Lynne. A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. [Ref. D13 .R295 2004].

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Cook, Chris. Dictionary of Historical Terms. New York: Gramercy Books, 1998. [Ref. D9 .C67 1998]

Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. [Ref. E176 .D5]

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
[Ref. DA28 .D5. 2004]

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Israel Gutman, ed. New York:
Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990. [Ref. D804.3 .E53 1990]

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Paul Finkelman, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
[Ref. E169.1 +E626 2001]

II. Indexes and Abstracts

America History and Life. ABC-CLIO.
Indexes more than 2000 journals worldwide in U.S. and Canadian history. Includes articles, book reviews, dissertations, and chapters of books. The historical period covered is from prehistory to the present.

Fernekes, William R. Oryx Holocaust Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Oryx Press, 2002. [Ref. DD804.3 .F47 2002]

Historical Abstracts. ABC-CLIO.
Covers articles, books, and dissertations in the field of world history from approximately 1450, including political, diplomatic, military, economic, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history.

III. Internet Resources

American Memory (Library of Congress)

Avalon Project- Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy (Yale)

Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham)

Internet Public Library - History Resources

Voice of the Shuttle - History Resources

The WWW Virtual Library - History

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
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