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Encyclopedias & Other Useful Reference Books and Web Sites

      Specialized Encyclopedias

this is just a selection of some history-related encyclopedias, for others please search the UW Libraries Catalog or contact a reference librarian. The books listed here are located in Suzzallo Reference, first floor Suzzallo Library. Additional copies may be found in other UW Libraries branches.

United States History American immigrant cultures : builders of a nation       E184.A1 A63448 1997 Asian American Encyclopedia       E184 .O6 A827 1993 Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history       E185 .E54 1996 Dictionary of American History       E174 .D52 2003 Dictionary of Afro-American slavery       E441 .D53 1997 Encyclopedia of American cultural & intellectual history       E169.1 .E624 2001 Encyclopedia of American economic history : studies of the principal movements and ideas       HC103 .E52 1980 Encyclopedia of American foreign policy       E183.7 .E52 2002 Encyclopedia of American immigration       JV6465 .E53 2000 Encyclopedia of American Social History       HN37 .E38 1993 Encyclopedia of civil rights in America       E186.61 .E544 1998 Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People       E169.12 .E3 1997 Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history       E468 .H47 2000 UW Only Encyclopedia of the American West       F391 .E483 1996 Encyclopedia of the antebellum South       F213 .V65 2000 Encyclopedia of the Confederacy       E487 .E55 1993 Encyclopedia of the Korean War: a political, social, and military history       DS918 .E33 2000 UW Only Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century       E169.1 .E626 2001 Encyclopedia of the United States in the twentieth century       E740.7 .E33 1996 Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: Political, social, and military history       DS337.7 .E33 1998 UW Only Encyclopedia of urban America: the cities and suburbs       HT123 .E3 1998 Encyclopedia of women's history in America       HQ1410 .C85 1996 Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history       HC102 .G35 1999 Encyclopedia of the North American colonies       E45 .E53 1993 Native Americans: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and peoples       E77 .P89 1998 St. James encyclopedia of popular culture       E169.1 .S764 2000 United States in the First World War: an encyclopedia       D310 .U63 1993

World History Civilizations of the ancient Near East       DS57 .C55 1995 Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine       WZ 13 C737 1993 Dictionary of British History UW Only Dictionary of the History of Ideas Dictionary of the Middle Ages       D114 .D5 1982 Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History UW Only Dictionary of World History UW Only Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara       DT351 .E53 1997 Encyclopedia of early Christianity       BR162.2 .E53 1997 Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000       HN373 .E63 2000 Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust       DS135.E8 E45 2001 Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture       F1406 .E53 1996 Encyclopedia of Mexico: history, society & culture       F1210 .E63 1997 Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment       CB411 .D5313 2001 Encyclopedia of the Holocaust       D804.3 .E53 1990 Encyclopedia of the Renaissance       CB361 .E52 1999 Europe since 1945 : an encyclopedia       D1058 .E8754 2001 Historical dictionary of the British empire       DA16 .H56 1996 Historical dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799       DC147 .H57 1985 Historical encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli conflict       DS119.7 .H544 1996 Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan UW Only Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery       HT861 .M24 1998 Modern Germany: an encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871-1990       DD14 .M64 1998 The Oxford companion to British history UW Only Oxford companion to classical civilization       DE5 .O92 1998 Oxford companion to Scottish history       DA757.9 .O946 2001 Oxford dictionary of Byzantium       DF521 .O93 1991 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation       BR302.8 .O93 1996 Trade, travel, and exploration in the Middle Ages: an encyclopedia       HF1001 .T7 2000 World War II in Europe: an encyclopedia       D740 .W67 1999 World War II in the Pacific: an encyclopedia       D767 .W68 2001

      Chronologies

American chronicle : year by year through the twentieth century       E169.1 .G664 1999 Chronology of women worldwide : people, places & events that shaped women's history       HQ1121 .C617 1997 Chronology of world history       D11 .M39 1999 Columbia chronologies of Asian history and culture       DS33 .C63 2000 HistoryLink's Seattle & King County timeline       F899.S457 C76 2001 HyperHistory Online       Web resource New York Public Library book of chronologies       D11 .W47 1990 The timetables of American history       E18.5 .T553 1996 The timetables of history : a horizontal linkage of people and events       D11 .G78 1991 WebChron: The Web chronology project       Web resource Worldmark chronology of the nations       G133 .W93 1999

American military leaders: from colonial times to the present       E181 .F84 1999 American national biography UW Only Australian dictionary of biography DU82 .A9 Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie       CT759 .D8 1995 Dictionnaire de biographie française       CT143 .D5 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Dictionary of Literary Biography (part of Literature Resource Center) UW Only Dictionary of Political Biography UW Only Historic world leaders       D412 .H57 1994 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography UW Only Rise of the medieval world, 500-1300: a biographical dictionary       CT114 .R57 2002 Who's who in the classical world UW Only Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia       HQ1115 .W6 1999 World Biographical Information System Online UW Only

British historical statistics       HA1134 .M58 1988 Colonial America to 1763       E188 .P86 1999 Historical Statistics of the United States       HA202 .H37 1973, online version International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993       HA4675 .M552 1998 International historical statistics : Europe, 1750-1993       HA1107 .M5 1998 International historical statistics : the Americas, 1750-1993       HA175 .M55 1998 Modern America, 1914 to 1945       E766 .G67 1995 Revolutionary America, 1763 to 1800       E162 .P86 1995 United States Historical Census Browser       Web resource Victorian America, 1876 to 1913       E168 .S55 1996 Warfare and armed conflicts : a statistical reference to casualty and other figures, 1500-2000       D214 .C54 2002

Atlas of medieval Europe       G1791 .M2 1997 Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world       G1033 .B3 2000 Early Washington Maps       Web resource Historic Cities       Web resource Historical atlas of the Middle East       G2206.S1 F7 1993 Historical atlas of the Pacific Northwest : maps of exploration and discovery       F851 .H38 1999 The historical atlas of World War II       G1038 .P55 1995 Map Collections: 1500 - 2002       Web resource Mapping America's past: a historical atlas       G1201.S1 C3 1996 Oxford atlas of world history       G1030 .O94 1999 Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Historical Maps       Web resource Routledge atlas of Russian history       G2111.S1 G52 2002 Times atlas of European history       G1797.21.S1 T5 1998