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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

It is often helpful to begin your research by reading a basic overview of your subject. Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide such basic overviews, and they often provide helpful suggestions for further reading as well.
 
Dictionary of American History. Stanley I. Kutler, editor in chief. 3rd ed.  (New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2003). Series: Gale virtual reference library.
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R973 D56
 
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History : the Black Experience in the Americas. Colin A. Palmer.  2nd ed. 6 vols. (Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, c2006).
  Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R326.8 En2
 
 Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, editors. 3 vols. (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, c2001).
 

Location :  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R973.92 En19
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Locations :  Barnard Reference  &  US History & Literature Reading Rm, 502 Butler
Call Number:  E169.1 .E624 2001

 
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. Alexander DeConde ... [et al.] editors. 2nd ed. (New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2002). Series: Gale virtual reference library.
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R327.73 En194
 
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. Marc Stein, editor in chief. (New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2004).  Series: Gale virtual reference library. 
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R304.5 En19
 
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. edited by Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst ; Adam Winkler, associate editor. 2nd ed. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000). Series: Gale virtual reference library.
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R342.733 En191
 
Encyclopedia of the New American nation : the Emergence of the United States, 1754-1829. Paul Finkelman, editor in chief. 3 vols. (Detroit : Charles Scribner’s Sons : Thomson Gale, c2006).
  Location: Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R973.4 En2
 
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Paul Finkelman, editor in chief. 3 vols.  (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001).  
  Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R973 En1956
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Location: Barnard Reference  &  US History & Literature Reading Rm, 502 Butler
Call Number: E169.1 .E626 2001
 
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Stanley I. Kutler, editor in chief. 4 vols. (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, c1996).
  Location: Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R973 En196
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Locations: Barnard Reference  &  US History & Literature Reading Rm, 502 Butler
Call Number: E740.7 .E53 1996
 
Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Includes online full text of a wide range of encyclopedic works in history, the arts, business, law, medicine, religion, and social science. A number of the encyclopedias linked from this page are included in this database.
 
The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture.  M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall, editors.  4 vols. (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002).
  Location: Butler Reference Desk, 301 Butler
Call Number: R301.2 G85
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Location: Lehman  &  US History & Literature Reading Rm, 502 Butler
Call Number: E169.1 .G7555 2002
 
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Neil J. Smelser and  Paul B. Baltes, editors in chief.  (Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001).
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R033 In813
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Locations:  Barnard Reference  &  Lehman Reference
Call Number:  H41 .I58 2001
 
Oxford African American Studies Center.
  Includes online full text of the following encyclopedic works: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience; the Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895; Black Women in America; the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature; and the ongoing project African American National Biography.
 
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonzalez. E-reference ed. (Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005).
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R325.72 Ox2
 
Oxford Reference Online
  Contains the texts of more than 100 reference titles published by Oxford University Press.
 
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, editors. (Detroit, Mich. : St. James Press, 2000). Series: Gale virtual reference library.
  Also available in print at:
Location:  Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number:  R301.2 St1
 
Research Guides
 
Prucha, Francis Paul.  Handbook for research in American history : a guide to bibliographies and other reference works. 2nd ed., rev. (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1994).

Location: Butler Reference Desk, 301 Butler
Call Number: R016.973 P951