Use these exploration encyclopedias for an overview of your topic, for definitions and explanations, and for lists of suggested readings. Ask at the service desk in Young for other suggestions.
Dictionary of American History -10 vols.
Call Number: SC Annex Stacks ref E 174 .D52 2003
Encyclopedia of American Social History - 3 vols.
Call Number: SC Annex Stacks ref HN 57 E58 1993
Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History - 3 vols.
Call Number: SC Annex Stacks ref E 169.1 E624 2001
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century - 3 vols.
Call Number: SC Annex Stacks ref E 169.1 .E626 2001
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century -5 vols.
Call Number: SC Annex Stacks ref E 740.7 .E53 1996
Includes all articles from these core reference works (in addition to drawing from other sources): Black Women in America; African American National Biography; Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; and Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present.
Includes New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; New Grove Dictionary of Opera; New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; Encyclopedia of Popular Music; The Oxford Dictionary of Music; and The Oxford Companion to Music.
