Earlham College Guides - History Resource Guide

History - United States

American Decades

Online version of the 10-volume reference set from Gale (2001). Provides sociocultural contexts of a given decade, 1900-1990s.
American National Biography

Online version of the multi-volume set that provides scholarly biographies of important people in all walks of American life.
Biography Resource Center

Information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes content from dozens of published reference works and hundreds of periodicals.
Blackwell Reference Online - History

Contains the complete texts of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works from Blackwell Publishing.
Daily Life Online

Online version of over four dozen print volumes that explore different cultures and everyday life around the world, past and present, including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life.
Dictionary of American History

Online version of the 10-volume, 3rd edition set from Charles Scribner's (2003).
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

Online version of the six-volume, 2nd edition set from Macmillan (2006).
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution

Online version of the two-volume set from Charles Scribner's (2006).
Oxford African American Studies Center

Over 7500 articles from a variety of Oxford University press books (e.g. Africana, African American National Biography), over 200 primary source documents, maps, timelines, links, and more.
Oxford Reference Online - History

Contains the complete texts of Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference titles.
Pop Culture Universe
Contains 307 books, 4,133 book chapters, 17,322 encyclopedia entries, and 6,621 images.
Working Americans

Online version of the Gale/Grey House multivolume set.

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History - World

Biography Resource Center

Information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes content from dozens of published reference works and hundreds of periodicals.
Blackwell Reference Online - History

Contains the complete texts of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works from Blackwell Publishing.
Daily Life Online

Online version of over four dozen print volumes that explore different cultures and everyday life around the world, past and present, including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life.
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion

Online version of the three-volume set from Scribner/Thomson (2005).
Encyclopedia of European Social History

Online version of the six-volume set from Scribner (2001).
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

Online version of the Oxford University Press title (2002).
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Online version of the Oxford University Press title (2001).
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450

Online version of the three-volume set from Macmillan (2007).
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World

Online version of the six-volume set from Scribner's (2004).
Fashion, Costume, and Culture

Online version of the five-volume set from U*X*L (2004).
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Online version of the six-volume set from Charles Scribner's (2004). Interdisciplinary discussion of concepts in culture, theory, and thought.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

Online version of the Oxford University Press title (2003).
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

Online version of the Oxford University Press title (1996).
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Online version of the 60-volume reference set that provides scholarly biographies important people in British history.
Oxford Reference Online - History

Contains the complete texts of Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference titles
Pop Culture Universe
Contains 307 books, 4,133 book chapters, 17,322 encyclopedia entries, and 6,621 images.