Research Guides @ Fordham: American History: Encyclopedias

E-book Collections

Credo Reference - Academic Core
Full text of hundreds of reference books including many encyclopedias on such topics as the American West, slavery, propaganda, US financial history, immigration etc. Also search TOPIC PAGES for specific subject.
Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Full text of American Decades 1900 - 2009 series, Dictionary of American History and Encyclopedias of US Political History; African-American Culture and History; New American Nation (1700's to 1829).
Oxford Reference Premium
Dictionaries, encyclopedias and subject reference books published by Oxford University Press.
Salem History
Full text of The Decades series (the Thirties - the Nineties); Encyclopedia of American Immigration; Great Events and Great Lives from History and Milestone Documents.

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Books

America in World History by Susan Crean
Call Number: E-book
Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, [2010].
4 vols.
American Hollywood - Directory of World Cinema by Lincoln Geraghty (Ed.)
Call Number: PN1993.5.U6 D473 2011 (RH)
Chicago, IL: Intellect, 2011.
Available in the Walsh Library Reference Area.
The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War by Margaret E. Wagner; Library of Congress
Call Number: REF E468.3.W34 2011 (RH)
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2011.
Available in the Walsh Library Reference Area
The Twenties in America by Carl E. Rollyson
Call Number: REF E784.T84 2012 (RH LC)
Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2012.
Available in Reference Area of the library.
3 vols.
U. S. Election Campaigns: A Documentary and Reference Guide by Thomas J. Baldino; Kyle L. Kreider
Call Number: REF JK2281.U34 2011 (RH)
Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011.
Available in the Walsh Library Reference Area
Voter Turnout in the United States, 1788-2009 by Curtis Gans (Ed.)
Call Number: JK1967.G36 2011 (RH)
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011.
Available in the Walsh Library Reference Area.

Dictionaries

There are historical dictionaries focusing on most:

time periods (Gilded Age, Jacksonian era etc.)
social movements (Civil Rights, Green etc.)
events (Great Depression, War of 1812 etc.)
issues (slavery, arms control etc.)
diplomacy (United States-China Relations etc.) in U.S. History.

Search the catalog using the term Historical Dictionary in the Title field and the specific topic in the Words and Phrases field.

Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed. by Stanley I. Kutler
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Thomson Learning, 2003.
Also available in print format: (FW, LC, RH) Ref E174 .D52 2003 in the Reference Area
Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction by William L. Richter
Call Number: REF E468.R53 2012 (RH)
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2012.
2nd edition
Available in Walsh Library Reference Area.

Encyclopedias

American Centuries: the Ideas, Issues and Values that Shaped U.S. History by Karen Kupperman (Ed).
Call Number: Ref + E174 .A534 2011 (RH)
New York, NY: Facts on File, 2011.
Available in the Walsh Library Reference Area
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by Colin A. Palmer
Call Number: E-book
Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 2006.
Also available in print format: Ref + E185 .E54 2006 (RH LC WC) in the Reference Area
2nd edition
Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America by Paul A. Gilje
Call Number: Ref + E208 .G55 2010 (RH)
New York, NY: Facts on File, 2010.
Available in the Walsh Library Reference Area
Encyclopedia of U. S. Political History by Andrew Robertson
Call Number: E-book
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010.
7 vol. set. Search for Title in Title List.
Also available in print format: Ref + E183 .E53 2010 (RH) in the Walsh Library Reference Area
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History by David S. Heidler (Ed.)
Call Number: E-book
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Also available in print format: Ref + E468 .E53 2000 (RH) in the Walsh Library Reference Area
Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by John D. Buenker (Ed.); Joseph Buenker (Ed.)
Call Number: E-book
Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, [2013].
Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal by James Ciment
Call Number: E-book
Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2013.
Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash by James Ciment (Ed.)
Call Number: E-book
Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2008.