Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Atlases, Specialized Dictionaries, and Chronologies These sources provide information useful for gaining a basic understanding of a topic and getting started with a research project. Encyclopedia articles often contain additional references.
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience / Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Black chronology: from 4000 B.C. to the abolition of the slave / Ellen Irene Diggs. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1983
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Chronology of African American history: from 1492 to the present / Alton Hornsby, Jr. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1997.
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Dictionary of Afro-American slavery / Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, editors. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
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Dictionary of American history / Stanley I. Kutler, editor in chief. 3rd Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.
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Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history: the Black experience in the Americas / Colin A. Palmer, editor in chief. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.
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Encyclopedia of American economic history: studies of the principal movements and ideas / Glenn Porter, editor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.
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Encyclopedia of American history / Gary B. Nash, general editor. New York: Facts on File, 2003.
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Encyclopedia of political economy / Phillip Anthony O'Hara, editor. London and New York: Routhledge, 1999.
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Encyclopedia of rural America: the land and the people / Gary A. Goreham, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
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Encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan Wilson & William Ferris, co-editors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
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Encyclopedia of Southern history / David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, editors. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
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Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: a political, social, and military history / David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler, editors. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABS-CLIO, 2000.
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Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century / Paul Finkelman, editor in chief.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001.
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Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery / Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller, editors. New York; Macmillan Reference USA, 1998.
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Reference library of Black America / Jeffrey Lehman, editor. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2005.
Ref E185 .R455 2005 vols. 1-5
Routledge altas of African American history / Jonathan Earle. New York: Routledge, 2000.
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Researchers Toolkit Supplementary links to assist you with finding relevant information in Schaffer Library and from the World Wide Web.
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web--Making Sense of Numbers Written by Gary J. Kornblith, this guide offers an overview of quantitative methods, how historians use historical data, and step-by-step instructions using actual historical data to determine totals, rates, averages, standard deviations, and coefficients of correlation. Gary J. Kornblith is Professor of History at Oberlin College.
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction.
