HISTORY RESEARCH GUIDE: BOOKS

• Sources of Background Information -
  an excellent place to begin your research
• Finding Books in the Upjohn Library - using Ariadne
• Using Bibliographies - books, articles, and text books

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SOURCES OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

Guides and Bibliographies

• The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature, 2 vols. Reference D20 .A5 1995
• American Studies: an annotated bibliography Reference Z1361.C6 A436 1986
• Handbook for research in American history : a guide to bibliographies and other reference works Reference Z1236 .P78 1994
• Harvard guide to American history, 2 vols. Reference Z1236 .H27 1974
• Reference sources in history : an introductory guide Reference Z6201 .F72 1990
• Sources of information for historical research Reference Z6201 .S64 1994
• United States history : a bibliography of the new writings on American history Reference E178 .M58 1995
• United States history : a selective guide to information sources Reference E178 .B57 1994

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

General History

• The ABC-CLIO world history companion to the industrial revolution Reference D359.7 .S74 1996
• The Cambridge ancient history, 1970- [multi-volume set] Reference D57 .C252
• The Cambridge historical encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland Reference DA34 .C28 1985
• The New Cambridge medieval history [multi-volume set] Reference D117 .C146 1995
• The Columbia companion to British history Reference DA34 .H64 1997
• Dictionary of historic documents Reference D9 .K63 1990
• The Encyclopedia of Asian history, 4 vols. Reference DS31 .E53 1987
• The Hutchinson dictionary of world history Reference D9 .H87 1993
• Larousse dictionary of world history Reference D9 .L33 1994
• The timetables of history : a horizontal linkage of people and events Reference D11 .G78 1991
• World history : a dictionary of important people, places, and events from ancient times to the present Reference D9 .W47 1994

American History

• The American Heritage encyclopedia of American history Reference E174 .A535 1998
• Dictionary of American history, 8 vols. Reference E174 .D52 1976
• A dictionary of contemporary American history : 1945 to the present Reference E174 .H58 1993
• The Encyclopedia of colonial and revolutionary America Reference E188 .E63 1990
• Modern America, 1914 to 1945 Reference E161 .A3 1995 v.4
• The U.S.A., a chronicle in pictures Reference E174.5 .W4 1991

Military History

• The American Revolution, 1775-1783 : an encyclopedia, 2 vols. Reference E208 .A433 1993
• Battle chronicles of the Civil War, 6 vols. Reference E470 .B29 1989
• The Civil War source book Reference E468 .K24 1992
• The European powers in the First World War : an encyclopedia Reference D510 .E97 1996
• The United States in the First World War : an encyclopedia Reference D510 .U65 1995
• World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with general sources : a handbook of literature and research Reference D743.42 .W67 1997
• World War II in Europe : an encyclopedia, 2 vols. Reference D740 .W67 1999

Research

• History : illustrated search strategy and sources Reference D16 .F87 1995
• The American Civil War : a handbook of literature and research Reference E456 .A47 1996
• The modern researcher Reference D13 .B334 1992

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