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History Reference Books

General Indexes and Bibliography

New York Times Index (1851-2005). INDEX AI 21 .N45

Norton, Mary Beth, ed. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (2v.). REF Z 6201 .A55 1995

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-2008). INDEX AI 3 .R48

Asian History

Adamec, Ludwig W. Historical Dictionary of Islam. Scarecrow, 2009.

Agoston, Gabor. Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File, 2009.

Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. REF DS 881.9 .A75 1999

Anderson, David L. The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War. REF DS 557.5 .A54 2002

Anderson, Sean. Historical Dictionary of Terrorism. Scarecrow, 2009.

Benewick, Robert and Stephanie Donald. The State of China Atlas. REF G 2305 .B4 1999

Blunden, Caroline and Mark Elvin, ed. Cultural Atlas of China. REF DS 721 .B56 1998

Buckley, Sandra, ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture. REF DS 822.5 .E516 2002

Campo, Juan Eduardo. Encyclopedia of Islam. Facts on File, 2009.

Chang, Chun-shu. Premodern China: A Bibliographical Introduction. DS 735 .C43 1971x

Collcutt, Martin, et al, ed. Cultural Atlas of Japan. REF DS 821 .C62 1988

Davis, Edward L. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. REF DS 779.23 .E53 2005y

Dower, John W. Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies. DS 835 .D69 1986x

Embree, Ainslie T., ed. The Encyclopedia of Asian History (4v.). REF DS 31 .E53 1987

Frédéric, Louis. Japan Encyclopedia. REF DS 821 .F73 2002

Dillon, Michael, ed. China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. REF DS 733 .C58523 1998

Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (6v.). REF DS 35.53 .O96 2009

Geelan, P.J.M. and D.C. Twitchett, ed. The Times Atlas of China. ATLAS STAND G 2305 .T5 1974

Herrmann, Albert. An Historical Atlas of China. REF G 2306 .S1 H4 1966

Huffman, James L., ed. Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism. REF DS 805 .M63 1998

Hutchings, Graham.Modern China: A Guide to a Century of Change. REF DS 774 .H796 2001

Kamrava, Mehran. Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. Greenwood, 2008.

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (9v.). REF DS 805 .K633 1983

Kort, Michael, ed. The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb. REF D 767.25 .H6 K68 2007

Kumaraswamy, P.R. The A to Z of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Scarecrow, 2009.

Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, ed. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (6v.). REF DS 4 .L48 2002

Mitchell, B.R. International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2000. REF HA 39 .M57 2003x v.1

Moïse, Edwin E. Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. REF DS 557.7 .M63 2001

Nienhauser, William H. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (2v.). REF PL 2264 .I2 1986x

Perkins, Dorothy. Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China, Its History and Culture. REF DS 705 .P47 1999

Scoppa, R. Keith. The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History. REF DS 755 .S635 2000

Tucker, Spencer. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social and Military History. ABC-CLIO, 2008.

Tucker, Spencer C., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (3v.). REF DS 557.7 .E53 1998

Wang, Ke-wen, ed. Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism. Garland, 1998.

Wang, Ke-wen, ed. Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism. REF DS 774 .M63 1998x

Woolf, D.R., ed. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (2v.). REF D 13 .G47 1998

European History

Adams, James Eli, ed. Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era (4v.). REF DA 550 .E527 2004

Boyd, Kelly, ed. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (2v.). REF D 14 .E53 1999

Bjork, Robert E., ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (4v.). REF D 114 .O94 2010

Buse, Dieter K. and Juergen C. Dorr, ed. Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People and Culture, 1871-1990 (2v.). REF DD 14 .M64 1998

Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History. REF DA 34 .O93 1997

Cook, Chris and Philip Broadhead. The Longman Handbook of Early Modern Europe. REF D 209 .C66 2001y

Cook, Chris and John Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern European History. REF D 299 .C627 1998

Grafton, Anthony, Glenn W. Most and Salvatore Settis, ed. The Classical Tradition. REF DE 60 .C55 2010

Grendler, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (6v.). REF CB 361 .E52 1999

Gutman, Israel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (2v.). REF D 804.3 .E53 1990bx

Hanson, Paul R. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. REF DC 147 .H36 2004

Hillerbrand, Hans J., ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (4v.). REF BR 302.8 .O93 1996

Holman, Katherine. The A to Z of the Vikings. Scarecrow, 2009.

Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth, ed. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. REF DE 5 .O9 1996

Kirk, Tim. Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History. REF DD 175 .K57 2002

Kors, Alan Charles, ed. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4v.). REF B 802 .E53 2003

Millar, James R., ed. Encyclopedia of Russian History (4v.). REF DK 14 .E53 2004

Mitchell, B.R. International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2000. REF HA 39 .M57 2003x v.3

Murray, Christopher John, ed. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 (2v.). REF NX 452.5 .R64 E53 2004

O'Brien, Patrick K. ed. Atlas of World History. ATLAS STAND REF G 1030 .O85 1999y

Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. REF DK 510.32 .E53 2007y

Stearns, Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000 (6v.). REF HN 373 .E63 2000

Tucker, Spencer C., ed. The Encyclopedia of the Cold War (5v.). REF D 840 .E63 2008

Tucker, Spencer C., ed. Encyclopedia of World War I (5v.). REF D 510 .E53 2005

Tucker, Spencer C., ed. Encyclopedia of World War II (5v.). REF D 740 .E516 2005

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Historical Atlas of the Holocaust. REF G 1797.21 .E29 H5 1996

Vauchez, Andre, ed. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2v.). REF D 114 .E53 2000y

United States History

America: History and Life (1976-2007). INDEX Z 1236 .A48

Annals of America (20v.). REF E 173 .A793

Barrett, Carole A., ed. American Indian History (2v.). REF E 77 .A496 2003

Boyd, Kelly, ed. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (2v.). REF D 14 .E53 1999

Boyer, Paul S., ed. Oxford Companion to United States History. REF E 174 .O94 2001

Carlisle, Rodney P. Handbook to Life in America. Vol I, The Colonial and Revolutionary Era, Beginnings to 1783. Facts on File, 2009.

Carlisle, Rodney P. Handbook to Life in America. Vol II, The Early National Period and Expansion, 1783 to 1859. Facts on File, 2009.

Carlisle, Rodney P. Handbook to Life in America. Vol III, The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860 to 1876. Facts on File, 2009.

Carlisle, Rodney P. Handbook to Life in America. Vol IV, The Gilded Age, 1870-1900. Facts on File, 2009.

Carlisle, Rodney P. Handbook to Life in America. Vol V, The Age of Reform, 1890-1920. Facts on File, 2009.

Carlisle, Rodney P. Handbook to Life in America. Vol VI, The Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929. Facts on File, 2009.

Carter, Susan B., ed. Historical Statistics of the United States (5v.). REF HA 202 .H57 2006

Cayton, Mary Kupiec and Peter W. Williams, ed. Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (3v.). REF E 169.1 .E624 2001

Chambers, John Whiteclay, ed. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. REF E 181 .O94 1999

Ciment, James. Atlas of African-American History. Facts on File, 2007.

Cooke, Jacob Ernest, ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (3v.). REF E 45 .E53 1993

Derks, Scott. Working Americans: 1880-1999 (2v.). REF HD 8066 .D47 2000

Dictionary of American Biography (20v. plus supplements). REF E 176 .D56

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to the Present (5v.). REF E 185 .E5453 2009

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglas (3v.). REF E 185 .E545 2006

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (3v.). REF E 169.1 .E626 2001

Finkelman, Paul and Peter Wallenstein, ed. The Encyclopedia of American Political History. REF E 183 .E48 2001

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Milestone Documents in African American History (4v.). REF E 184.6 .M55 2010

Freidel, Frank, ed. Harvard Guide to American History (2v.). REF Z 1236 .F7 1974x

Garraty, John A. and Mark C. Carnes, ed. American National Biography (24v. plus supplements). REF CT 213 .A68 1999

Gavins, Raymond. The Cambridge Guide to African American History. REF E 185 .G33 2016

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, ed. The Harvard Guide to African-American History. REF E 185 .H326 2001

Historic Documents (1972-2016). REF E 839.5 .H57

Howard, Angela M. and Frances M. Kavenik, ed. Handbook of American Women's History.REF HQ 1410 .H36 2000

Hudson, J. Blaine. Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad. REF E 450 .H855 2006

Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. Atlas of American History. REF G 1201 .S1 J3 1978

Johansen, Bruce E. Encyclopedia of American Indian History. ABC-CLIO, 2008.

Kutler, Stanley I., ed. Dictionary of American History (10v.). REF E 174 .D52 2003

Kutler, Stanley I, ed. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (4v.). REF E 740.7 .E53 1996

National Geographic Historical Atlas of the United States. REF G 1201 .S1 F5 2004

Norwood, Stephen H. Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. ABC-CLIO, 2008.

Okihiro, Gary Y. The Columbia Guide to Asian American History. REF E 184 .O6 C64 2001

Palmer, Colin A., ed. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (6v.). REF E 185 .E54 2006

Pastoor, Charles. Historical Dictionary of the Puritans. Scarecrow, 2007.

Purvis, Thomas L. A Dictionary of American History. Blackwell, 1997.

Queen, Edward L. Encyclopedia of American Religious History. Facts on File, 2009.

Richter, William L. The A to Z of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Scarecrow, 2009.

Richter, William L. The A to Z of the Old South. Scarecrow, 2009.

Rodriguez, Junius P. Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political and Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2007.

Selesky, Hatrold E., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (2v.). REF E 208.E63 2006

Smith, Jesse Carney and Carrell Peterson Horton, ed. Historical Statistics of Black America (2v.). REF E 185 .H543 1995

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations (2v.). REF E 450 .S65 2008

Tucker, Spencer. The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO, 2008.

Wesson, Cameron B. The A to Z of Early North America. Scarecrow, 2009.

Woronoff, Kristen. American Inaugurals: The Speeches, the Presidents, and Their Times. Blackbirch, 2002.

Wynn, Neil A. The A to Z from the Great War to the Great Depression. Scarecrow, 2009.