Reference Books

The Reference collection is usually an excellent starting point for research projects. Reference books are non-circulating items (they cannot be checked out) and are designed to be used to look for specific information rather than read cover to cover. Additionally, reference books contain bibliographic records that can lead to the discovery of further resources to support one's thesis. In some instances, the reference books are compiled or supported by primary source documents.

• A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History
• Encyclopedia of the Second World War
• Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide
• The European Powers in the First World War : an Encyclopedia
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
• Historical dictionary of the Republic of Korea
• The Holocaust
• The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History
• Larousse Dictionary of World History
• Modern China : an Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism
• Modern Japan : an Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism
• The Wilson Calendar of World History
• Women and gender in medieval Europe : an encyclopedia
• World Eras

• Historical Abstracts: Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
• Academic Search Complete: Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.
• Directory of Open Access Journals, History is an international collection of full text history journals.

• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is a resource for digitized ancient history documents
• Internet Medieval History Sourcebook is a resource for digitized medieval documents
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook provides digitized documents that cover history spanning the Reformation to the 21st century.
• Internet African Soucebook historical sources on the history of human societies on the continent of Africa.
• Internet East Asian Sourcebook is site that offers documentary history of the Far East from its cultural origins to the present day.
• Internet Indian History is a document collection covering Indian history.
• Internet Global History documents recording cultural interactions throughout history.
• History of Russia:Primary documents is a wiki dedicated to primary sources throuoghout Russian history.
• History of Finland contains documents from Finnish history, 1200 to 1944.
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution offers a timeline, essays, documents and images covering the French Revolution.
• World War I Document Archive is collection of primary documents from World War I.
• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History is a comprehensive collection of documents covering European history from prehistoric times to current age.
• The WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies provides information on all aspects of Latin America from indigenous culture to current social, political and economic conditions includes access to archival documents.
• World War II Resources Original documents regarding all aspects of the war.





Questions or comments, contact:
Emily Szymanski, Reference & Instruction Librarian