Useful reference resources

Allen, William. An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in North America from Its First Settlement, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States. 2d ed. Boston: W. Hyde & Co., 1832.

Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography. Washington: Brassey's, 1994.

Concise Dictionary of American History. New York: Scribner, 1983.

Dictionary of American Biography. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928-36. E176 .D56.

Dictionary of American History. Rev. ed. New York: Scribner, 1976.

Dictionary of American History. Supplement. New York London: Charles Scribner's Sons Reference Books; Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, 1996.

A Dictionary of Military History and the Art of War. Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference, 1994.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Scribner, 1973.

Dupuy, R. Ernest. The Encyclopedia of Military History. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

———. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 Bc to the Present. 4th ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1993.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996.

Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. New York: Facts On File, 1988.

Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. New York: Scribner, 1980.

Encyclopedia of American History. 7th ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

The Encyclopedia of American Political History. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001.

Encyclopedia of American Social History. New York: Scribner, 1993.

The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. New York: Continuum, 1998.

The Encyclopedia of Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

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

Findling, John E. Dictionary of American Diplomatic History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Detroit: Gale, 1998.

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.

The Harvard guide to African-American History. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. E185 .H326 2001.

History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.

Queen, Edward L. Encyclopedia of American Religious History. Rev. ed, Facts on File Library of American History. New York: Facts on File, 2001.

Rodriguez, Junius P. Chronology of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1999.

Schapsmeier, Edward L. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.