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Call Number: ref PE 1625 .O87 1989
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Encyclopedia of Education
Call Number: ref LB 15 .E47 2003
World Education Encyclopedia
Call Number: ref LB 15 .W87 2002
Encyclopedia of American Education
Call Number: ref LB 17 .U54 2007
Historical Dictionary of School Segreations & Desegreagation: The American Experience
Call Number: ref LC 212.52 .R34 1998
Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era
Call Number: ref E 743.5 .K57 1996
Historical Dictionary of the 1960s
Call Number: ref E 841 .O57 1999
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century
Call Number: ref E 740.7 .E53 1996
Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia
Call Number: ref LC 1569 .W66 2002
The 1950s
Call Number: ref E 169.12 .Y69 2004
The Sixties in America
Call Number: ref E 841 .S55 1999
American National Biography

Oxford Companion to American Literature
Call Number: ref PS 21 .H3 1995
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Call Number: ref PN 451 .D53
Biography Resource Center
Oxford Reference Online
Handbook to Literature
Call Number: ref PN 41 .H355 2009
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Call Number: ref PN 81. J55 2005