Database Listing: History -- United States

Producer:	Accessible Archives
Sources:	Sources
Description:	A collection of American newspapers, magazines, and other primary source materials, mostly from the 19th century, but with some 18th century items. Newspapers and magazines nclude the Virginia Gazette, Pennsylvania Gazette, The Liberator, Godey's Lady's Book, and a selection of African American newspapers. Books include a large collection of county histories, Civil War memoirs and regimental histories, and more.
Usage Tips:	You may search the entire database or select individual titles or groupings. For more help with using the Accessible Archives database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States .General (any topic)

Producer:	Washington and Lee University
Description:	Database of annotated references to books, articles, Web sites, and other materials "for the study of nuclear issues," including politics, history, science, social issues, and more.
Usage Tips:	You can Browse (left column) by Issues, Science, Disciplines, Warfare, Places, and People. You can Search (upper left column) by keyword, title, or creator.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S.

Producer:	American Antiquarian Society / Readex NewsBank
Sources:	Sources
Description:	Contains digital copies of articles from about 1,000 American newspapers from all the current 50 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1900, with strongest coverage of the first half of the 19th century. Our subscription includes Series 1 and 2 of the publisher's Early American Newspapers series, described here by the publisher. Not every issue of every newspaper is available, but the publisher continues to fill gaps in the database. Purchase was made possible, in part, by the President's Initiative Fund.
Usage Tips:	You may either browse the contents of individual newspapers in this database or search for particular words, phrases, or names in any of the newspapers. Browsing You can view the available issues of any of the newspapers by clicking on the "Newspaper Titles" tab near the center of the page. The subsequent list of newspapers can be re-sorted by title, publication date, city, or state by selecting the appropriate header. Click on any newspaper's title to view a chronological list of available issues, and then click on the desired date. Searching Note that you can search for one or more words in the full text of articles and/or their titles. To search for articles containing two or more words, connect the search terms with AND. Example: students AND discipline To search for articles containing a multi-word phrase, enclose the search terms within quotation marks. Example: "tea party" To search for articles containing any forms of a word, use an asterisk () to substitute for one or more letters. Example: emigra finds emigrant, emigrants, emigration, etc. Note: The system will automatically search for singular and plural forms of nouns. Limiting a Search You can use the tabs in the center of the search page to limit your search by date (including "Presidential Era" or "Eras in American History"), by article type, by place of publication (state or town), or by specific newspaper(s). Printing You probably will get a clearer image if you click on the "Open image as PDF" icon before printing:
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Journalism and Mass Communications

Producer:	EBSCOhost
Description:	AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE is the most comprehensive database to literature on North American history. It contains citations, with abstracts and some full-text access, of articles from about 1,800 scholarly journals, books, book reviews, dissertations, and other materials in 40 languages on North American history -- the United States and Canada. Most cited items have been published since the late 1950s. The database is updated monthly.
Usage Tips:	Searching may be done in all fields at once or limited by specific fields. Searching may be limited by historical period, language, type of publication or year of publication. You may also limit searches to entries with full text only. Output may be e-mailed or printed.
Librarian:	Vaughan Stanley
Descriptors:	History -- United States Humanities - General Journalism and Mass Communications Politics -- American Politics African-American Studies Poverty Studies

Producer:	HarpWeek, LLC
Description:	Browse or search issues of Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.
Librarian:	Vaughan Stanley
Descriptors:	History -- United States

Producer:	Brepols
Description:	Indexes publications on all subjects relating to the Middle Ages (400-1500 AD), with coverage of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Usage Tips:	You need to click on the blue "Enter databases" button and then, on the subsequent screen, click on the blue "Go" button, next to the International Medieval Bibliography Online listing. You can type search terms in one or more of the search fields (Authors, Titles, etc.) as follows, below. To search through all sections of all records, use the "Free Search -- Full Text" field. Important: Once you have entered your search terms, click on the blue "Search and show hitlist" button at the bottom of the screen. Up to three W&L researchers may use the database simultaneously. When you have finished with your searching, click on the "exit" option, at the left side of the screen. Combining Terms To find records containing two or more words, connect them with AND. Example: celtic AND crosses Phrase To search for a multi-word phrase, simply type the words. Example: robin hood Truncation To search for forms of a term, use an asterisk (). Example: medicin AND herb* Viewing Results After you retrieve the initial list of titles, you can view each full record separately by clicking on the "IMB" icon in each line or you can choose to list all the full records by clicking on the "To scroll through the selected documents" option, at the top of the list.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Producer:	JSTOR
Sources:	Sources
Description:	A digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher. August 2009 update: JSTOR is developing Data for Research, a tool for analysis of the content of the database.
Usage Tips:	Searching The opening Advanced Search page presents 4 options for searching through the full text of all articles. You can change one or more these options to search through authors' names, words in article titles, words in article abstracts, or words in captions. To search for forms of a word, use an asterisk () to substitute for missing letters. Example: modern finds modern, modernism, moderns, modernistic, etc. To find articles containing two or more words, connect the search terms with AND. Example: terror* AND nationalis* To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose search terms in quotation marks. Example: "vernacular architecture" Results and Printing The list of articles resulting from a search is displayed in order of relevance (the number of appearances and prominence of your search terms), but can be re-sorted by publication date. To print an article, click on the "PDF" option.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Music Economics and Business - General History -- United States Humanities - General Anthropology and Archaeology Sociology Journalism and Mass Communications Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Elections and Voting Politics -- Legal and Constitutional Politics -- Foreign and International Politics -- Congressional Research Politics -- General Economics Theater .General (any topic) Women's and Gender Studies History -- Outside U.S. Islamic Studies Politics -- Political Philosophy

Producer:	ProQuest
Description:	The historical New York Times database offers full page and article images from 1851 through 2008, with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Other newspaper databases offer online access to more recent issues of the New York Times.
Usage Tips:	For help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page. Please note the availability of an "Obituaries" search option, near the top of the screen.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States .General (any topic) History -- Outside U.S.

Producer:	Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) / ProQuest
Sources:	Sources
Description:	Contains continually updated records for over one million journal articles, books, government documents, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more from about 120 countries on all aspects of public policy and social issues. Coverage extends back to the 1910's.
Usage Tips:	Please note the "Figures and Tables" search option, near the top of the screen, which allows you to look for graphs, tables, and other forms of images. For more help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Economics and Business - General History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Government -- U.S. State and Local Government -- Foreign and International Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Foreign and International Politics -- Congressional Research Politics -- General Economics International Trade African-American Studies Poverty Studies Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Producer:	Leyburn Library
Description:	Compilation of resources useful for identifying "primary source" materials for the study of U.S. history at W&L.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

Producer:	ProQuest
Description:	August 2012 brings a new interface for ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional). W&L's subscription includes access to Serial Set documents dating back to 1789. Still being published in paper form in the 21st century, the modern Serial Set is now almost exclusively a collection of Congressional reports and documents. However, for most of its history, it was much more than that, including hundreds of thousands of reports in a wide variety of subject areas from dozens of government agencies. Here is more information on the Serial Set.
Usage Tips:	Here is help with searching, printing, and more.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal

Producer:	Library of Virginia
Description:	"This is primarily a subject only index to articles appearing in the Richmond-Times Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader between the 1940's and 1985." This is not the same index as the microfiche "Freeman File," which covers much the same span of time in the same newspapers.
Usage Tips:	"Articles about individuals are most frequently found under the subject heading Biography. However, a personal name may be used occasionally as a subject heading."
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

Producer:	ProQuest
Description:	The historical Washington Post offers full page and article images from 1877 to 1995 with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Other newspaper databases offer online access to more recent issues of the Washington Post.
Usage Tips:	For help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page. Please note the availability of an "Obituaries" search option, near the top of the screen.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States .General (any topic) History -- Outside U.S.

ABC-Clio Ebook Collection

Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	This collection contains dozens of e-books published by ABC-Clio, Greenwood, and a few other publishers.
Usage Tips:	ABC-Clio ebooks which Washington and Lee has purchased are listed here alphabetically by title. You can opt to view the list by subject category, author, or publication year by clicking on the choices in the upper-right. Searching The "Quick Search" option near the top of the screen allows you to search through all our volumes in this collection. The Advanced Search option allows more sophisticated searching -- one subject at a time, etc. For further help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

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Producer:	American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) / University of Michigan
Sources:	Sources
Description:	This database (formerly called the History E-book Project) includes the complete contents of 2,800 high-quality humanities books from nearly 100 publishers and a working group of learned societies. About 500 works are to be added each year.
Usage Tips:	Browsing This option will allow you to see a list of all books in the database, listed in one of three ways. The default "Browse" option lists titles alphabetically by author's names. Other options includes listings by title and by subject. Searching The "Search" selection includes four methods of searching the database. The basic search (the default search mode) allows you to search for a single word or a multiple-word phrase within either the "full text" of the database, the "title" of a book, the "subject" terms attached to each book, or an "author's" name. The bibliographic search is similar, but it allows searching only for words or phrase within book titles, authors' names, or within subject terms. The Boolean search allows you to search for the presence of as many as three words or phrases within a chosen range of each other: within the same "pages/paragraphs"; within the same "chapters"; within the "titles" of books. The proximity search allows you to find words or phrases within a selected distance (number of characters) from each other in works' titles, authors' names, subject terms, or full text. Truncation You can search for forms of a word by adding an asterisk () to the end of a word or part of a word. For example, slave will retrieve slave, slaves, slavery, slaveholding, etc. Viewing When you click on a book title, you will retrieve a page which gives you several options, including: "Table of contents" allows you to view separate sections of the book by clicking on section titles; "Enter book" allows you to start reading the book page-by-page from the very first page; "View full catalog record" gives you the full information needed for proper citation. Printing Because of copyright considerations, the History E-Book Project deliberately does not facilitate printing. You can use your browser's printing capabilities to print one page at a time, but some pages will not fit entirely within a screen. Hint: You can increase the likelihood that a page will print in its entirety by changing the "View" option (near top of page) from "normal" to "small."
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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ARTstor

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Producer:	Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Description:	ARTstor is a continually growing library of art images, including data. Currently, ARTstor contains over a million art images.
Usage Tips:	To learn how to use ARTStor to its fullest advantage, go to ARTStor's Help menu. YouTube has various short instructional videos that are excellent. You must REGISTER first if you want to save image groups or use ARTstor off-campus. Downloading the Offline Image Viewer(OIV) is necessary to create presentations. Saving images •Double click on image (this will allow you to download) •Save the image to your desktop – DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE FILE •Open your desktop •There will be two files with the same name on your desktop. •One of them is the jpeg; this is the one you need to work with. •Right click on the name field and rename the image. •Open it up and save it to your desktop or H: drive. •You can now import the picture in Powerpoint or some other program. For Technical Help, contact the Instructional Technology Services at x8098 or contact Yolanda Merrill in the library at x8662.
Librarian:	Yolanda Merrill
Descriptors:	Music Art and Architecture Classics History -- United States Humanities - General Literature and Language Religion Theater Medieval and Renaissance Studies History -- Outside U.S. Islamic Studies East Asian Studies

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African Biographical Dictionary

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Producer:	Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Second edition (2007) contains over 800 biographical sketches of individuals prominent in sub-Saharan history, as well as foreigners who have affected the continent's history. You can view the table of contents here.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which contains alphabetically-arranged entries. You may open any multi-part section by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: islam finds islam, islamic, islamist, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Foreign and International

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America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents of Colonial and Revolutionary Era Governance (Volume 1)

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	This is the first volume of a three-volume set (2006) which contains about 260 documents on the "origins, developments and growth, and defenses of colonial governance," including royal charters, sermons that question or bolster the established order, pamphlets, state constitutions, and debates over the make-up of the Continental Congress and Articles of Confederation. Documents are accompanied by commentaries. Here are links to Volume 2 and Volume 3. You can view the table of contents for all three volumes here. Purchase was made possible by the Lois Ferguson and Fred Carrington Cole Endowment.
Usage Tips:	Browsing You can browse the contents of this volume by using the more-or-less chronological Table of Contents listing of essays and documents in the left-hand column. Searching The "Quick Search" option, located near the top of the screen, allows you to search through the text of "This Title" (this volume only). To find entries containing a multi-word phrase, place the words within quotation marks. Example: "general court" To search for forms of a word, use an asterisk () to substitute for one or more letters. Example: slave will find slave, slaves, slavery, etc. To find entries containing two or more words, connect the words with AND. Example: tax AND property*
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	Two-volume set (2008) provides regional and state-by-state discussions of folk songs about the lives and times of each state. "For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context."
Usage Tips:	For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Music History -- United States

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American History Through Literature, 1820-1870

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Producer:	Scribner's
Description:	Presents over 250 entries on the relationship between history and literature during the 50-year period that "witnessed the birth of a truly American literature." Published in print form as a three-volume set in 2005. You can see a PDF copy of the table of contents here. Purchase was made possible by the Lois Ferguson and Fred Carrington Cole Endowment.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 3 "volumes," beginning with "Abolitionist Writing to Gothic Fiction." You may open any of the article listings by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: slave finds slave, slaves, slavery, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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American History Through Literature, 1870-1920

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Producer:	Scribner's
Description:	Presents over 250 entries on the relationship between history and literature during the 50-year period from the years following the Civil War through World War I. Published in print form as a three-volume set in 2005. You can see a PDF copy of the table of contents here. Purchase was made possible by the Lois Ferguson and Fred Carrington Cole Endowment.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 3 "volumes," beginning with "Addiction to Ghost Stories." You may open any of the article listings by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: imperial finds imperial, imperialism, imperialist, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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American History: A Very Short Introduction

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Ebrary
Description:	2012 volume offers a concise (184 pages) "account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country." You may preview the contents.
Usage Tips:	You can view the table of contents by clicking on "Contents" within the "TOC" display. You can open sections of the text by clicking on the arrow preceding that section's label. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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American National Biography

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Producer:	Oxford University Press
Description:	The ANB contains orginal signed articles on more than 18,000 "men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation." In general, the database does not include essays on currently-living individuals. The library also has the printed volumes.
Usage Tips:	The two primary search options are: Search by Name Enter all or part of a person's name (in any order) and then click on "Search." Search Full Text This option allows you to search through the complete texts of all articles. Please note that additional options are available on the lower half of the search page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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American Political Leaders, 1789-2009

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Producer:	CQ Press / Ebrary
Description:	2009 volume contains brief biographical information on over 9,000 elected and appointed political figures, including presidents, vice presidents, cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, and governors. The library also has a printed copy of the 2005 edition.
Usage Tips:	You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

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American Social History Online

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Producer:	Digital Library Federation
Sources:	Sources
Description:	"Provides access to distributed digital library collections pertaining to 19th- and 20th-century U.S. social history. The 175 collections represent such institutions as the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and the California Digital Library and contain 514,708 photographs and cultural materials, books and pamphlets, journal articles, maps, short music videos, data sets, political cartoons and posters, and oral histories."
Usage Tips:	Searching Use the Advanced Search option to be able to better control your search. Use an asterisk () to search for forms of a word. Example: riot will find riot, riots, rioting, riotous, etc. To find entries containing two or more words, simply enter the words. Example: riot baltimore* To find entries containing a multi-word phrase, enclose the search terms within quotation marks. Example: "washington college" Please note that there are options to arrange search results by date and/or format, and to limit results by city, state, format, etc.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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American Women During World War II: An Encyclopedia

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Producer:	Routledge / NetLibrary
Description:	2009 volume contains about 250 alphabetically-arranged entries on individuals, organizations, institutions, issues, and other topics associated with the effects of World War II on millions of women.
Usage Tips:	For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing NetLibrary e-books, see this page. To open a chapter listed in the table of contents (column on left), click on the tiny plus-sign (+) above the chapter title. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Women's and Gender Studies

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Ancestry Library Edition

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Producer:	Ancestry.com / ProQuest
Description:	The 1940 U.S. Census records are coming to Ancestry, beginning in April 2012. More information. Contains billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more from North America, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and more. U.S. collections include hundreds of millions of names from: Federal Decennial censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.
Usage Tips:	If you wish to focus on U.S. Federal Decennial Census records, select from the "Census Collections" options beneath the opening page's search box.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal

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Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence

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Producer:	Harvard University Press / Ebrary
Description:	2009 volume contains the texts of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution (including amendments), with section-by-section commentary by noted historian Jack Rakove. Also includes a chronology and introduction by the author.
Usage Tips:	You can preview the detailed contents by clicking on "Contents" from the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Legal and Constitutional

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Anti-Semitism; A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Over 600 signed entries in this work (2005) span the period from ancient Egypt to the modern era. Key theoreticians of Jew-hatred and their written works, its permeation of Christianity and modern Islam, and its political, artistic, and economic manifestations are covered.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Religion Sociology History -- Outside U.S.

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Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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Producer:	U.S. Congress
Description:	Searchable database of information on members from 1774-to-date.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal

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Black America : A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia

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Producer:	ABC-Clio / Ebrary
Description:	Two-volume set (2011) consists of alphabetically-arranged chapters on all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, each with chronologies and historical overviews.
Usage Tips:	You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies

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Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007

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Producer:	U.S. House of Representatives
Description:	Contains profiles of African American senators, congressmen, and delegates, as well as historical essays, collections of historical data, and more. Part of a series of House publications "highlighting the congressional service of women and minority groups." (See also this site on women.) A more up-to-date directory of African Americans in Congress is published by the Congressional Research Service.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Congressional Research African-American Studies

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CQ Guide to Congress

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly Press
Description:	Seventh edition (2013) probably is the preeminent overview of the U.S. Congress -- origins and development, powers, procedures, relations with other branches of government and with the electorate, data and documents, and more. The library also has a printed copy of the 5th edition.
Usage Tips:	Browsing The initial screen offers chapter-by-chapter access to the contents. The red navigation bar on the left includes links to: Features, Tables, and Figures; a Glossary; a list of all members of Congress; and an alphabetically-arranged Index, with links to entries. Searching The "Search" box at the top of the page enables you to search through all the words in the database. Use an asterisk to search for forms of a word. Example: budget* finds budget, budgets, beudgeting, budgetary, etc. To find entries containing two or more terms, connect them with AND. Example: redistrict AND race* To find a multi-word phrase, enclose the search terms within quotation marks. Example: "electoral college"
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Congressional Research

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Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville

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Producer:	Cambridge University Press / Cambridge Collections Online
Description:	This 2006 volume, edited by Cheryl Welch, "contains a set of critical interpretive essays by internationally renowned scholars on the work of Alexis de Tocqueville." You may preview a copy of the table of contents. The library also owns a printed copy. You can search the contents of this and over 290 other volumes in Cambridge Collections Online.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Political Philosophy

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Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

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Producer:	Cambridge University Press
Description:	"This Companion [2007] examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition." You may preview a copy of the table of contents. The library also owns a printed copy. You can search the contents of this and over 290 other volumes in Cambridge Collections Online.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies

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Cambridge Histories Online

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Producer:	Cambridge University Press
Sources:	Sources
Description:	Contains the complete texts of over 250 volumes published since the 1960's in this prestigious series of authoritative works on major historical topics. Several series are still active and new volumes will be added to the database as published, as will any new series when they begin.
Usage Tips:	You may browse among individual volumes or search for content within a certain subject or across the entire collection. Browse When you click on "Browse," you will see a list of 15 subject categories. You can open any of these categories, such as "Political and Social Theory," by clicking on its title. You then can see a list of volumes in the series, any of which can be opened by clicking on the title of the individual volume. The subsequent page displays the volume's table of contents (lower right). When you click on a broad "part" or section, you will see a list of chapters within that part. When you click on the chapter you want, you will see an overview of that chapter, with an option to "view full chapter" (above the chapter title), which will open a PDF file. Search The search box on the home page (upper right) provides the ability to search through the entire database. The search boxes on all other pages offer the choice of searching the "all content" or an individual category or volume. You can search the content of any subject category or volume by browsing to that level (as above) and then using the "Search" box (upper right). The "Advanced search" option (under the "Search" box) allows you to perform more complex or focused searches. Note: To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "manifest destiny"
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Music History -- United States Literature and Language Philosophy Religion Theater History -- Outside U.S.

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Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

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Producer:	Cambridge University Press
Description:	Four-volume set, published in 1993, provides a sweeping "synthesis of U.S. diplomatic history" from 1776 to 1991. The library also has printed volumes.
Usage Tips:	You may browse among individual volumes or search for content within this collection. Browse The opening page displays a list of the volumes, any of which you can click on to browse. The first page of any volume displays the volume's table of contents in the lower right. When you click on a broad "part" or section, you will see a list of chapters within that part. When you click on the chapter you want, you will see an overview of that chapter, with an option to "view full chapter" (above the chapter title), which will open a PDF file. Search The search box on the home page (upper right) provides the ability to search through the entire database. The search boxes on all other pages offer the choice of searching the "all content" or an individual category or volume. You can search the content of any subject category or volume by browsing to that level (as above) and then using the "Search" box (upper right). The "Advanced search" option (under the "Search" box) allows you to perform more complex or focused searches. Note: To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "monroe doctrine"
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Foreign and International

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Cambridge History of Religions in America

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Producer:	Cambridge University Press / Cambridge Histories Online
Description:	Three-volume set (2012) traces "the historical development of religious traditions in America, following both their transplantation from other parts of the world and the inauguration of new religious movements on the continent of North America."
Usage Tips:	For help with searching, printing, and e-mailing Cambridge Histories Online e-books, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Religion

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Cambridge World History of Slavery

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Producer:	Cambridge University Press / Cambridge Histories Online
Description:	To be a four-volume set (2011- ), surveying "the entire history of slavery across the world, from antiquity to the present day," with dozens of signed essays by international scholars. You may preview the contents of Volume 1 and Volume 3.
Usage Tips:	You may browse among individual volumes or search for content within this collection. Browse The opening page displays a list of the volumes, any of which you can click on to browse. The first page of any volume displays the volume's table of contents in the lower right. When you click on a broad "part" or section, you will see a list of chapters within that part. When you click on the chapter you want, you will see an overview of that chapter, with an option to "view full chapter" (above the chapter title), which will open a PDF file. Search The search box on the home page (upper right) provides the ability to search through the entire database. The search boxes on all other pages offer the choice of searching the "all content" or an individual category or volume. You can search the content of any subject category or volume by browsing to that level (as above) and then using the "Search" box (upper right). The "Advanced search" option (under the "Search" box) allows you to perform more complex or focused searches. Note: To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "spanish america"
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies History -- Outside U.S.

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Civil War: People and Perspectives

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank, this 2009 volume on the American Civil War offers overviews of members of particular groups -- civilians, soldiers, women, immigrants, children, Native Americans, urban dwellers, African Americans, and members of specific religios denominations.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains

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Producer:	Columbia University Press / Humanities E-Book Project
Description:	Loretta Fowler's 2003 one-volume "guide to the extensive ethnohistorical research that, in recent decades, has recovered the varied and often unexpected history of Comanche, Cheyenne, Osage, and Sioux Indians, to name only a few of the tribal groups included." The library also has a printed copy.
Usage Tips:	Browsing The "enter book" option in the middle of the opening screen allows to start with the first page of the book. You also can click on any chapter or section in the table of contents to go directly to that page. Navigating Once you are looking at a particular page, you can move forward or backward page-by-page by clicking on the "prev(ious)" and "next" arrows above the text. Searching The "Search this book" option offers four methods of searching the content of the book. The basic search (the default search mode) allows you to search for a single word or a multiple-word phrase within either the "full text" of the database, the "title" of a book, the "subject" terms attached to each book, or an "author's" name. The bibliographic search is similar, but it allows searching only for words or phrase within book titles, authors' names, or within subject terms. The Boolean search allows you to search for the presence of as many as three words or phrases within a chosen range of each other: within the same "pages/paragraphs"; within the same "chapters"; within the "titles" of books. The proximity search allows you to find words or phrases within a selected distance (number of characters) from each other in works' titles, authors' names, subject terms, or full text. Truncation You can search for forms of a word by adding an asterisk () to the end of a word or part of a word. For example, slave will retrieve slave, slaves, slavery, slaveholding, etc. Printing Because of copyright considerations, the Humanities E-Book Project deliberately does not facilitate printing. You can use your browser's printing capabilities to print one page at a time, but some pages will not fit entirely within a screen. Hint: You can increase the likelihood that a page will print in its entirety by changing the "View" option (near top of page) from "normal" to "small."
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

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Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast

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Producer:	Columbia University Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	This 2001 volume by Kathleen Joan Bragdon is a "concise and authoritative reference resource to the history and culture of the varied indigenous peoples of the region," including cultures and history, chronologies, and more. The library also has a printed copy.
Usage Tips:	You may find material within this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

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Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast

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Producer:	Columbia University Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Theda Purdue's 2001 volume examines and synthesizes Southeastern Native American history through each of its integral phases. The library also has a printed copy.
Usage Tips:	You may find material within this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

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Companion to American Immigration

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Producer:	Blackwell / NetLibrary
Description:	Collection (2006) of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history. Focuses on the two most important periods in American Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the Globalizing Era (Cold War to the present). You can view of table of contents here. Purchase was made possible by the Lois Ferguson and Fred Carrington Cole Endowment.
Usage Tips:	Using NetLibrary While you are using this book, nobody else at W&L can open it. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column. Otherwise, this book will be unavailable for 15 minutes. To open the book, click on "View this eBook." The next screen will display a graphic of the book's cover on the right side of the screen and a copy of the table on contents on the left side. Browsing You can use this table of contents to navigate the book. To open the section of the book containing the entry you want, click on the appropriate chapter title. Searching To search for a particular word or phrase within the book, click on the "Search" option, on the left side of the screen, then enter your word(s) within the "Search this eContent" box. Navigating Once you have opened an article, you can move from one page to another only by using the "Next" and "Previous" buttons, near the upper-right corner of the screen. Printing You may print only one page at a time. Use the Adobe Acrobat "print" icon (image of a printer), in the bar immediately above the article. Be sure to click on the "Close Item" option when you are finished.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Politics -- American Politics

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Companion to American Indian History

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Producer:	Blackwell / NetLibrary
Description:	Edited by Philip Deloria, this 2004 volume contains 25 original essays, covering such issues as "contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture." You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing NetLibrary e-books, see this page. Click on the tiny plus-signs [+] immediately above the titles of Parts in the table of contents to access individual sections. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

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Companion to Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook

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Producer:	De Gruyter / Ebrary
Description:	2010 volume offers an interdisciplinary "overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies." Signed, scholarly essays cover historical, literary, media, social and cultural, political, and psychological aspects, and more. You may preview the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology History -- Outside U.S. Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Companion to George Washington

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Producer:	Wiley / Wiley Online Library
Description:	2012 collection of 34 original essays from scholars and popular historians that shed new light on aspects of the life of Washington. You may preview the contents. The W&L library also has a printed copy of this book.
Usage Tips:	For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Wiley Online Library e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Companion to Harry S. Truman

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Producer:	Wiley / Wiley Online Library
Description:	Noted historians contribute 27 original essays to this 2012 volume assessing "Harry S. Truman as a historical figure, politician, president and strategist." You may preview the contents.
Usage Tips:	For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Wiley Online Library e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Companion to James Madison and James Monroe

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Producer:	Wiley / Ebrary
Description:	Thirty-two scholarly essays in this 2012 volume consider various aspects of the lives and legacies of our fourth and fifth presidents. You may preview the contents.
Usage Tips:	You can view the table of contents by clicking on "Contents" within the "TOC" display. You can open sections of the text by clicking on the arrow preceding that section's label. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

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Companion to World War II

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Producer:	Wiley / Wiley Online
Description:	Two-volume set (2013) contains over 50 signed essays, collected into thematic sections, such as "Roots of War." You may preview the contents.
Usage Tips:	For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Wiley Online Library e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America

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Producer:	Blackwell / NetLibrary
Description:	2005 volume provides "a broad introduction to the field of early American and comparative colonial studies... essays discuss major issues shaping the field today, and help contextualize early texts by situating them in relation to broader historical and cultural movements and moments..." You may view the table of contents here.
Usage Tips:	Using NetLibrary While you are using this book, nobody else at W&L can open it. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column. Otherwise, this book will be unavailable for 15 minutes. To open the book, click on "View this eBook." The next screen will display a graphic of the book's cover on the right side of the screen and a copy of the table on contents on the left side. Browsing You can use this table of contents to navigate the book. Click on the plus-sign (+) above "Contents" in the left-hand column to browse the list of essays, organized into four Parts. Open each Part by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign. You also can browse the book's Index by clicking on "Index" in the left-hand column. You can then type a desired page number in the "Page" box above the book display. Searching To search for a particular word or phrase within the book, click on the "Search" option, on the left side of the screen, then enter your word(s) within the "Search this eContent" box. Navigating Once you have opened an article, you can move from one page to another only by using the "Next" and "Previous" buttons, near the upper-right corner of the screen. Printing You may print only one page at a time. Use the Adobe Acrobat "print" icon (image of a printer), in the bar immediately above the article. If that icon does not appear, point your cursor in the blank green space above the book text and right-click on your mouse to display the "Print" option to be able to print the page on the screen. Be sure to click on the "Close Item" option when you are finished.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Literature and Language

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Congress and the Nation

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Producer:	CQ Press
Description:	Authoritative coverage of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and Presidency from Harry S. Truman through the George W. Bush administration, including review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term, organized by policy area. Also available in printed form in the library collection.
Usage Tips:	Browsing by Topic Probably the most useful topic browsing tool is the "Cumulative Index" (in the lower-right section of the opening page). You also can use the very broad "Browse by Topic" options (upper-right), which will lead to sub-divisions which have entries listed chronologically. Browsing Chronologically The "Browse by Table of Contents" options allow you to view subject entries arranged by Presidential terms. Searching The basic "Search" box (upper-right of page) allows you to find one or more terms within the text of the series. Combining Terms -- To find entries containing two or more terms, connect them with AND. Example: gorbachev AND reagan Phrases -- To find entries containing a multi-word phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "persian gulf war" Advanced Search option (link next to the basic "Search" box) allows you to do the above searching, but also limit the search chronologically or by subject area. Results A search's resulting list of entries is arranged by relevancy ranking, but can be re-arranged by date or title, by using the arrows next to the "Title" and "Date" column headings. Delivery Individual entries can be delivered by e-mail or formatted for printing. See the appropriate options, located to the upper-left of the document.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Congressional Research

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Crimes and Trials of the Century

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	Two-volume set (2007) contains chronologically-arranged accounts of about 35 trials of the past century, beginning with the Black Sox scandal (1919) and continuing to the 21st-century Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. The above link takes you to Volume 1, with coverage through the 1971 Attica uprising, while Volume 2 spans the past 35 years.
Usage Tips:	There is an alphabetically-arranged Index, covering both volumes, at the end of Volume 2. For additional help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Legal and Constitutional

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Dictionary of American History

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Producer:	Scribner's
Description:	This is the third edition (2003) of the most comprehensive encyclopedia on American history, comprising ten volumes in printed form. The 4,400 signed articles range in length up to 7,000 words. You can see the table of contents here. The third edition is also available in printed form. Funding was made possible by a gift in memory of Lewis P. Nelson III, Class of 1961.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. Please note that the list is divided into 10 "volumes," beginning with "Aachen-to-Butler." You may open any of the article lists, such as "Antietam-Arkansas," by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies Poverty Studies

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Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages

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Producer:	Yorking Publications
Description:	Published in 2006, this two-volume set contains about 25,000 brief biographical entries on women from U.S. and non-U.S. history.
Usage Tips:	The simplest way to find an entry is to type some or all of her name in the "Quick Search -- Find" box, on the right side of the screen. (be sure to click on the "within this publication" box.) The order of first name and last name should not matter. Example: Either alice roosevelt or roosevelt alice will work. If you are uncertain about the spelling of a first name or last name (stuart or stewart), enter only what you are certain of. (Of course, this search may result in a lengthy list of entries through which you must scroll.) You also can search for individuals in a particular occupation by entering the singular form of the occupational term in the "Quick Search" box. Example: journalist Browsing The eTable of Contents option is not very useful for this ebook, except for the Genealogical Charts, which are available in Volume 1 (A-L). Delivery Printing -- Click on this icon/link to display and then print a text form of the entry. Click on this icon/link to display and then print a PDF form of the entry. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an entry by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Women's and Gender Studies History -- Outside U.S.

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Dictionary of World History

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online
Description:	Second edition (2006) contains over 4,000 entries, covering pre-history to modern times, including biographies of key figures, historical summaries for each country, and entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and key battles and places.
Usage Tips:	The initial screen ("Quick Search") is set up for a search of the complete text of the database. If you want to browse through an alphabetical list of all entries, choose the "Browse this book" option. The results of searches are arranged by relevance, with those articles containing search words in the title or other prominent location. Quick Search To find articles containing a multi-word phrase, enter the words within quotation marks. Example: "quadruple alliance". To search for various forms of a word, use an asterisk () as a wild-card term. Example: roman will find roman, romans, romany, romanov, etc. Advanced Search This option, located within the blue bar near the top of the screen, enables you to search through this reference source, plus some or all of the other Oxford Reference Online sources in this same broad subject area ("History").
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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Documents of United States Indian Policy

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Producer:	University of Nebraska Press / NetLibrary
Description:	Third edition (2000) contains over 200 documents (listed chronologically), with brief commentary on each. The library also has a printed copy.
Usage Tips:	Using NetLibrary While you are using this book, nobody else at W&L can open it. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column. Otherwise, this book will be unavailable for 15 minutes. To open the book, click on "View this eBook." The next screen will display a graphic of the book's cover on the right side of the screen and a copy of the table on contents on the left side. Browsing The table of contents displayed in the left-side column gives you the option of browsing any of the book's sections by clicking on the appropriate title. At the bottom of the contents list is the "Index," which provide page numbers and direct links to the appropriate page(s).. Searching To search for a particular word or phrase within the book, click on the "Search" option, on the left side of the screen, then enter your word(s) within the "Search this eContent" box. Navigating Once you have opened an article, you can move from one page to another only by using the "Next" and "Previous" buttons, near the upper-right corner of the screen. Printing You may print only one page at a time. Use the Adobe Acrobat "print" icon (image of a printer), in the bar immediately above the article. Be sure to click on the "Close Item" option when you are finished.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology

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Early Americas Digital Archive

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Producer:	University of Maryland
Description:	"A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."
Usage Tips:	Click on the Archive link to browse lists of authors and titles.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

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Producer:	Macmillan
Description:	The second edition (2006) contains over 2,300 signed articles on the "cultural roots and current condition of the African-American community." An appendix volume contains primary source documents and a collection of statistics.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 6 volumes, beginning with "A-B." You may open any of the article listings by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). The sixth volume contains primary source documents and a collection of statistics. Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology African-American Studies

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Encyclopedia of American Disability History

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Producer:	Facts on File / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Three-volume set (2009) contains about 750 alphabetically-arranged signed entries "examining the issues, events, people, activism, laws, personal experiences, and social ramifications of disability throughout American history... From the asylum movement of the 19th century and the cover-up of Franklin Roosevelt's paralysis during his presidency to the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (and amendment of 2008) and the impact of every war on veterans’ physical and mental health."
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Psychology Sociology Education

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Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

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Producer:	Scribner's / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	A three-volume set in printed form, this second edition (2002) contains about 120 essays by respected scholars General category coverage includes concepts and doctrines, policymaking, human rights, and arms control, including anti-imperialism, environmental diplomacy, refugee policies, and terrorism. Leyburn Library also has the printed set in its collection.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 3 volumes, beginning with "A-D." You may open any of these sections by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: terror finds twrror, terrorist, terrorists, terrorism, etc. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Foreign and International

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Encyclopedia of American Indian History

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Set (2007) contains four thematically-organized volumes, covering the period from precontact through European colonization, the years of non-Native expansion (including Indian removal), and the modern era of reservations, reforms, and reclamation of semi-sovereignty. Approximately 450 entries by about 110 contributors. You may view the table of contents here.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

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Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal

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Producer:	ABC-Clio / Ebrary
Description:	Two-volume set (2011) is "encyclopedic reference guide to Indian removal," covering roughly the period 1830 to 1860. Volume One contains 125 alphabetically-arranged entries "focusing on events, issues, and people," while Volume Two consists of primary-source documents and accompanying commentaries. You may preview the contents of Volume 1.
Usage Tips:	You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. The Index at the end of each volume covers both volumes.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Encyclopedia of American Urban History

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Producer:	Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Edited by David Goldfield and published as a two-volume set in 2006, this encyclopedia offers "both a summary and an interpretation of the field. With contributions from leading academics in their fields, this authoritative resource offers an interdisciplinary approach by covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology."
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. The alphabetically-arranged are divided into two "volumes," beginning with "A-L." You may open any of the sub-divided article lists, such as "Density-Fresno," by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You also may browse the alphabetically-arranged entries in the eBook Index option, which includes links from the entries to the appropriate pages. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology

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Encyclopedia of Black Studies

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Producer:	Sage
Description:	This one-volume encyclopedia (2005) serves two purposes. It is not only provide entries on the " economic, political, sociological, historical, literary, and philosophical issues related to Americans of African descent," but also acts as a guide to topics associated with the development of "black studies" as a discipline.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. You may open any of the sub-divided article lists by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology African-American Studies

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Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion

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Producer:	Scribner's
Description:	Published in 2004 as a three-volume set, this resource surveys clothing, body adornment, and examines the origins of clothing, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress. It also presents information on representative costumes from a wide variety of historical eras. Topics range from the bustle, sari, codpiece, and toga to Polyester and body piercing. Includes over 600 illustrations.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the Table of Contents option. Please note that the list is divided into three "volumes," beginning with "Academic Dress to Eyeglasses." You may open any of the article lists, such as "Balenciaga-Boxer," by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Theater History -- Outside U.S.

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Encyclopedia of Diasporas

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Producer:	Springer / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Two-volume set (2005) contains signed essays on specific groups (social and historical background, experiences, assimilation and adaptation, etc.) and on associated topics. You can see the table of contents here. Purchase was made possible by the Alice M. Dean Fund.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into three broad sections, any of which can be "opened" by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+): Diaspora Overviews -- essays on about 20 ethnic groups that have suffered significant displacement Topics -- "impact and assimilation that the immigrant cultures experience in their adopted cultures" Diaspora Communities -- essays on about 60 specific diaspora communities. Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of many hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: genocid finds genocide, genocides, genocidal, etc. Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology Sociology Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S. Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History

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Producer:	EH.net
Description:	Lengthy signed articles on topics in international economic and business history.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Economics and Business - General History -- United States Economics History -- Outside U.S.

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Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

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Producer:	Macmillan
Description:	Published in printed form as a three-volume set in 2004, this encyclopedia contains entries on the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues, including the history of events that qualify as genocide, profiles perpetrators and heroes, explains international laws and proceedings, and examines depictions and manifestations in literature, film, and other media. Purchase of this resource was made possible by the McCrum Palmer Book Fund.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the Table of Contents option. Please note that the list is divided into three "volumes," beginning with "A-to-H." Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology Sociology Politics -- Legal and Constitutional Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S.

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Encyclopedia of North American Indians

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Producer:	Houghton Mifflin
Description:	Text of 1996 volume containing hundreds of entries on concepts, terminology, individuals, tribes, and more.
Usage Tips:	Using NetLibrary You need to have the Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer to read this ebook. While you are using this book, nobody else at W&L can open it. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close eBook" option near the top of the screen. Otherwise, this book will be unavailable for 15 minutes. To open the book, click on "View this eBook." The next screen will display a graphic of the book's cover on the right side of the screen and a copy of the table on contents on the left side. Browsing You can use this table of contents to navigate the book. Articles are arranged alphabetically. To open the section of the book containing the article you want, click on the appropriate red button (with a white arrow) -- NOT the name of the section. You may need to do this several times to display the article title you want. Then, click on that title. Searching To search for a particular word or phrase within the book, click on the "Search" option, on the left side of the screen, then enter your word(s) within the "Search this eBook" box. Navigating Once you have opened an article, you can move from one page to another only by using the red buttons (with white left- and right-pointing arrows) near the upper-right corner of the screen. Printing You may print only one page at a time. Use the Adobe Acrobat "print" icon (a printer), in the bar immediately above the article. Again, be sure to click on the "Close eBook" option when you are finished.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

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Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America

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Producer:	Scribner's / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	This two-volume encyclopedia provides a comprehensive survey of such diverse activities as rodeos, stickball, bowling, auto racing, and more, from the Colonial era to the present. It examines how the pursuit of leisure has changed over time, reflecting shifting social, cultural, political and economic trends in the United States. You can view the table of contents here.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. Please note that the list is divided into 2 "volumes," beginning with "A-to-L." You may open any of the article lists, such as "Brothels-Diners," by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology

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Encyclopedia of Religion in America

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Four-volume set (2010) examines "the origins, development, adaptation, influence, and interrelations of the many faiths practiced, including major world religions, new religious sects, cults, and religious movements that originated or had an influence in the United States."
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing the entries or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Religion

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Encyclopedia of Sports in America

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Producer:	Greenwood / ABC-Clio
Description:	Subtitled A History from Foot Races to Extreme Sports, this two-volume set (2008) "explores the development and influence of sports in American culture, as well as how sports icons, commercial enterprises, organizations, sporting events, and even fan culture have changed from decade to decade and from era to era." You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology

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Encyclopedia of Terrorism

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Producer:	Sage
Description:	Published in 2002, this encyclopedia contains over 300 signed entries on organizations, individuals, events, concepts, etc. You can view a list of entries here. An updated edition was published in 2011.
Usage Tips:	For help with searching, printing, and e-mailing Sage e-books, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S. Islamic Studies

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Seven-volume set, published in 2010, "explores the events, policies, activities, institutions, groups, people, and movements that have created and shaped political life in the United States." Each volume in this chronologically-arranged set contains about 100 alphabetically-arranged signed essays. You may preview the contents of the volumes. Acquisition was made possible by the Friends of the Library. Note: The above link takes you only to Volume 1 (1500-1783). Links to additional volumes are below: Volume 2 (1784-1840) Volume 3 (1841-1877) Volume 4 (1878-1920) Volume 5 (1921-1945) Volume 6 (1946-1975) Volume 7 (1976-2009)
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing the entries or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. Each volume has its own subject index. There is no index covering the entire set.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Elections and Voting Politics -- Congressional Research

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Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450

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Producer:	Macmillan / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Three-volume set (2007) contains over 400 signed articles "traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, including Europe's overseas expansion into the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific, beginning in the 15th century, the collapse of empires, race relations in decolonized regions, and current examples of continuing dependence by much of the developing world on Western nations (often former colonial powers themselves)." You may view the table of contents here.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 3 volumes, beginning with "A-E," which contain alphabetically-arranged articles. You may open any multi-part section by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: abolition finds abolition, abolitionist, abolitionists, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S. Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime

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Producer:	Sage
Description:	This two-volume work (2004), with more than 500 entries, covers a variety of white-collar crimes and their history and investigations, including such high profile cases as Martha Stewart and Enron.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. Please note that the list is divided into 2 "volumes," beginning with "A-to-I." You may open any of the article lists, such as "Global-Infant," by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Economics and Business - General History -- United States

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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America

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Producer:	Indiana University Press / NetLibrary
Description:	About 150 signed essays on "the history and current state of women's religious experience in North America," focusing on institutions, movements, and ideas. You can preview the table of contents. Published 2006.
Usage Tips:	Using NetLibrary While you are using this book, nobody else at W&L can open it. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column. Otherwise, this book will be unavailable for 15 minutes. To open the book, click on "View this eBook." The next screen will display a graphic of the book's cover on the right side of the screen and a copy of the table on contents on the left side. Browsing The table of contents displayed in the left-side column gives you the option of browsing any of the book's sections by clicking on the appropriate title. If a title is preceded by a plus-sign (+), you can click on the plus-sign to access individual parts of any section. Searching To search for a particular word or phrase within the book, click on the "Search" option, on the left side of the screen, then enter your word(s) within the "Search this eContent" box. Navigating Once you have opened an article, you can move from one page to another only by using the "Next" and "Previous" buttons, near the upper-right corner of the screen. Printing You may print only one page at a time. Use the Adobe Acrobat "print" icon (image of a printer), in the bar immediately above the article. Be sure to click on the "Close Item" option when you are finished.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Religion Women's and Gender Studies

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Encyclopedia of World History

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Producer:	Houghton Mifflin
Description:	This is the sixth edition of this respected one-volume encyclopedia, edited by Peter Stearns.
Usage Tips:	Not surprisingly, chapters are arranged chronologically, with a keyword search capability also available.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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Encyclopedia of World War II

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Subtitled A Political, Social, and Military History, this 5-volume set (2004) provides overviews of battles, strategic situations, and political, social, and military leaders, as well as deeper analyses of crucial events such as Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and the role of women in war. The library also has a printed copy.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

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Producer:	Macmillan
Description:	This six-volume set is the second edition (2000) of the pre-eminent encyclopedia on all aspects of constitutional law. You can see a PDF copy of the table of contents here. Funding was made possible by a gift in memory of Lewis P. Nelson III, Class of 1961. The library also has a printed copy of the multi-volume set in its collection.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. Please note that the list is divided into 6 "volumes," beginning with "AB-to-Cl." You may open any of the article lists, such as "Abington-Advisory," by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Legal and Constitutional

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Encyclopedia of the American Presidency

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Producer:	Facts on File / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Revised edition (2010) contains about 700 alphabetically-arranged signed entries, most contributed by members of the American Political Science Association's Presidency Research Group. "Spans the relationship between the executive and the other branches of government, court cases, elections, political opponents, scandals, and more." Includes several entries contributed by Robert Strong, W&L Associate Provost and Professor of Politics.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

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Encyclopedia of the American Revolution

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Producer:	Scribner's
Description:	Second edition, published as a two-volume set in 2006, a revision of Mark Boatner's 1966 volume. Covers military aspects of the American Revolutionary War (1763-1783), with biographical entries, campaigns and strategy, battles and skirmishes, weaponry, political issues and events, legends, European participation. The table of contents is here. This purchase was made possible by the Lois Ferguson and Fred Carrington Cole Endowment.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 2 volumes, beginning with "A-L." You may open any of the article listings by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Again, click on the appropriate plus-sign (+) to open groups of articles. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: musket finds musket, muskets, musketry, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians

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Producer:	University of Nebraska / NetLibrary
Description:	Edited by David Wishart, this 2007 volume contains nearly 150 entries on "peoples, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great Plains from the beginnings of human habitation to the present." Purchase was made possible by the Lois Ferguson and Fred Carrington Cole Endowment.
Usage Tips:	Using NetLibrary While you are using this book, nobody else at W&L can open it. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column. Otherwise, this book will be unavailable for 15 minutes. To open the book, click on "View this eBook." The next screen will display a graphic of the book's cover on the right side of the screen and the table on contents on the left side. Browsing You can use this table of contents to navigate the book. You can open the alphabetical list of entries by clicking on the "A - Z" in the table of contents. You also can browse the alphabetical list of entries in the "General Index," at the bottom of the Table of Contents. (You then will have to copy the desired page number to the "Page" box at the very top of the e-book display.) Searching To search for a particular word or phrase within the book, enter the word(s) within the box beneath "Search this eContent," on the left side of the screen. Navigating Once you have opened an article, you can move from one page to another only by using the "Next" and "Previous" buttons, near the upper-right corner of the screen. Printing You may print only one page at a time. Use the Adobe Acrobat "print" icon (image of a printer), in the bar immediately above the article. Be sure to click on the "Close Item" option when you are finished.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

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Encyclopedia of the New American Nation

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Producer:	Scribner's / Gale Virtual Reference LIbrary
Description:	Three-volume set (2005) contains over 650 signed articles on events occuring from about 1754 to about 1829, including not only political and governmental topics, but also culture, literature, the arts, and daily life. You can view the table of contents here. Purchase was made possible by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into three volumes, beginning with "Abolition to Exploration." Any of the sections can be "opened" by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of many hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: abolition finds abolition, abolitionist, abolitionism, etc. Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census

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Producer:	CQ Press / CQ Press Electronic Library
Description:	Second edition (2011) includes about 140 signed articles discussing history, terms, processes, issues, and concepts of U.S. census-taking. Also contains maps, tables, and more.
Usage Tips:	Browsing The initial screen displays "Browse by Topics" options, as well as "Document Types." Searching The "Search" box at the top of the page enables you to search through all the words in this encyclopedia. Use an asterisk to search for forms of a word. Example: bias* finds bias, biased, biases,, etc. To find entries containing two or more terms, connect them with AND. Example: ethnic* AND language* To find a multi-word phrase, enclose the search terms within quotation marks. Example: "unmarried couples"
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal

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Encyclopedia of the United States Cabinet: 1789-2010

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Producer:	Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Two-volume set (second edition; 2010) provides overviews of U.S. cabinets, arranged by 44 Presidential Administrations. Each entry includes an historical snapshot, an essay on that Administration and its cabinet, and biographical entries on each office-holder, as well as other features. You may preview the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. Note: All of each Administration's biographical entries are grouped under that Administration's "Cabinet Member Biographies" collection.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Politics -- American Politics

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Famous American Crimes and Trials

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Producer:	Praeger / Greenwood
Description:	Five-volume set (2004) contains over 50 chronologically-arranged accounts of famous crimes and trials in American history, including descriptions of the crimes within historical context, the cast of characters, the trials themselves, and media involvement. You can preview the table of contents. The link above takes you to Volume 1, covering the span from about 1607 (Mary Dyer) to 1859 (John Brown). Subsequent volumes: Volume 2 -- About 1860 (Henry Wirz) to 1912 (Becker-Rosenthal) Volume 3 -- About 1913 (Leo Frank) to 1959 (Emmett Till) Volume 4 -- Early 1960's (JFK Assassination) to 1980 (Ted Bundy) Volume 5 -- About 1981 (Jack Henry Abbott) to 2000 (Timothy McVeigh)
Usage Tips:	There is no single alphabetically-arranged Index covering all volumes. Instead, there is an index at the end of each volume covering only that volume. For additional help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Legal and Constitutional

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First Encounters: Native Voices on the Coming of the Europeans

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Producer:	ABC-Clio / Ebrary
Description:	This 2010 volume is a collection of first-person "accounts of native peoples describing their initial encounters with European explorers, conquerors, and settlers," arranged by continent.
Usage Tips:	You can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women

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Producer:	Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Second edition (2006) of this compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, with additional primary source materials, entries on organizations and agencies, and more. You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material within this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Women's and Gender Studies

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Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources

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Producer:	Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	A collection (2006) of about 200 documents, including "speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays, and much more," on gender and sexuality during the last three centuries. Each entry is accompanied by commentary of the document's context and significance.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 8 broad categories, beginning with "Beyond Femininity and Masculinity." You may open any of these sections by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: reproduc finds reproduce, reproductive, or reproduction. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Women's and Gender Studies

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Governors Database

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Producer:	National Governors Association
Description:	Searchable database of current and past U.S. governors, with brief biographical articles.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. State and Local

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Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through World History

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	Three volume-set (2007) contains essays covering the history of clothing throughout the world from pre-historic times to 2006. Coverage is chronological and the above link takes you to Volume 1. Links to each volume: Volume 1, Pre-History to 1500; Volume 2, 1500 to 1800; Volume 3, 1800 to the present.
Usage Tips:	Click on "Contents" (left column) in each volume for a listing of sections and links to opening pages. Each volume has its own alphabetically-arranged index (left column). For further help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Art and Architecture History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology Theater History -- Outside U.S.

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Greenwood Encyclopedia of Homes through American History

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	Four-volume set (2008) is divided into ten historical periods, placed in context by brief historical overviews of each period, covering styles of domestic architecture, home design, building materials, landscaping, furniture and decoration, and more. You may view a form of the table of contents. The link above takes you only to Volume 1. Here are links to each volume: Volume 1 -- 1492-1820 Volume 2 -- 1821-1900 Volume 3 -- 1901-1945 Volume 4 -- 1946-Present
Usage Tips:	There is no index covering all four volumes and the "Search" option at the top of screen searches only the volume you are currently viewing. Each of the four volumes includes its own index, listed at the bottom of that volume's table of contents (lower left). For further help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Art and Architecture History -- United States

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Guide to U.S. Elections

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Two-volume set (6th edition; 2009) contains essays on the history of U.S. elections through 2008, including coverage of political parties, redistricting, and presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Extensive tables of election results. The library also has electronic access to the 5th edition, as well as printed copies of earlier editions.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Elections and Voting Politics -- Congressional Research

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Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History

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Producer:	CQ Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Two-volume set (2012) is divided into seven parts that feature "40 topical and historical chapters in which expert writers cover the diplomatic initiatives of the United States from colonial times through the present day," plus an appendix which is an A-to-Z handbook of diplomatic terms and concepts, organizations, events, and issues in American foreign policy.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Foreign and International

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Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly Press
Description:	Published in 2010 with over 1,500 pages, the 5th edition is updated through the 2008-09 Supreme Court term and covers the Court’s history, operations, power in relation to other branches of government, major decisions, and biographies of the justices. The library also has printed copies of earlier editions.
Usage Tips:	Browsing The initial screen offers chapter-by-chapter access to the contents. The red navigation bar on the left includes links to: Features, Tables, and Figures; biographical essays; and the alphabetically-arranged Subject Index and Case Index, each of which include links to entries. Searching The "Search" box at the top of the page enables you to search through all the words in the database. Use an asterisk to search for forms of a word. Example: discriminat* finds discrimination, discriminating, discriminatory, etc. To find entries containing two or more terms, connect them with AND. Example: voting AND race To find a multi-word phrase, enclose the search terms within quotation marks. Example: "capital punishment"
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Legal and Constitutional

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Historic Documents

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly (CQ Press)
Description:	Contains texts and commentary on over 3,000 documents, ranging from "presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions." Coverage begins with 1972. Much of the value of the database lies in CQ's analysis of the actual document, summarizing the history, issues, personalities, and controversies surrounding the item.
Usage Tips:	Please note that each entry resulting from a search will consist of a lengthy commentary, followed by the text of a document. There are two basic methods of searching the database -- searching and browsing. Search the Series This option, available near the top of the screen, allows you to search for combinations of key words in the database. Search results are arranged by relevance -- the number of times a term/phrase appears. To search for entries containing two or more words, connect them with AND. Example: medicare AND prescription To search for entries containing a phrase, place the words within quotation marks. Example: clean air act Browse by Topic This option enables you to view entries grouped in broad subject areas, such as "Business, the Economy, and Work." Browse by Title This option allows you to search for entries by year. Cumulative Index Use this option to search a detailed subject index. Printing and E-Mailing Entries must be re-formatted before printing, using the "Format for Printing" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Entries may be delivered by e-mail, using the "E-mail This Document" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Be sure to log out when you finish your session, using the Log Out option, near the upper-right corner of the screen.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Legal and Constitutional Politics -- Congressional Research History -- Outside U.S.

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Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements

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Producer:	Scarecrow / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	2008 volume includes "a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects" of Native Americans in the U.S.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the entries or by searching for a particular word. For further help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology Sociology

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Historical Dictionary of the Old South

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Producer:	Scarecrow / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	2005 volume includes cross-referenced entries on prominent individuals, as well as entries on events, documents, and concepts. Also includes an introductory essay, a chronology and a bibliography.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which contains alphabetically-arranged entries. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: slave finds slave, slaves, slavery, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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History Highway: A 21st Century Guide to Internet Resources

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Producer:	M.E. Sharpe / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Second edition (2006) information on more than 3,000 web sites, with coverage of U.S. and World history and sub-fields, including environmental history, immigration, Middle Eastern history, and more. Includes live links to sites. You may see the table of contents here.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which contains two primary sections: "Getting Started" and "Internet Sites for Historians." The latter contains entries divided into subject areas. You may open a multi-part section by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: slave finds slave, slaves, slavery, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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History of World Trade Since 1450

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Producer:	Macmillan
Description:	Two-volume set (2005) contains over 400 entries on historical and commercial concepts (commodities, countries, economic terms, individuals and families, etc.) dating from the beginning of the Age of Exploration, through the establishment of colonies in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, the Industrial Revolution, capitalism and imperialism, through the 20th century.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 2 volumes, beginning with "A to K." You may open any of the article listings by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States International Trade History -- Outside U.S.

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Hotchkiss Map Collection

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Producer:	U.S. Library of Congress
Description:	Over 300 cartographic items made by Confederate Army Major Jebediah Hotchkiss, featuring detailed maps of the Shenandoah Valley.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Three-volume set (2005) "covers the reciprocal effects that the politics, foreign policy, and culture of Spain, Portugal, and the American nations have had on one another since the time of Columbus." About 400 signed entries, plus substantial introductory essays.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this e-book either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology History -- Outside U.S. Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Contains about 200 entries on concepts, terms, personalities, and issues associated with the surge of immigration from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Published as a three-volume set in 2005.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S.

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Immigration: A Documentary and Reference Guide

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	This 2008 volume presents two broad overview in U.S. immigration: this historical record, from the country's earliest days into the 21st Century; and contemporary issues, including security, economic aspects, and legal challenges. You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

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In the First Person

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Producer:	Alexander Street Press
Sources:	Sources
Description:	This is an index of over 2,500 collections of English-language oral history transcript collections and audio recordings, providing access to materials from over 9,000 individuals. Note: While this database is free, access to some transcipt collections may be by subscription only; if you are unable to use a collection, please report it to a member of our Reference staff.
Usage Tips:	The opening screen provides a "Quick Search" option, which searches through all words in the indexing database. However, this option is of greatest value only when searching for any unusual or rare term, such as "rockbridge." Other options listed in the Tables of Contents allow you to browse among various useful possibilities, among them: Historical Events Places All Subjects
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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Jamestown Colony -- A Political, Social, and Cultural History

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Composed by Frank E. Gizzard, Jr., this 2007 volume contains more than 250 entries on the people, events, politics, and culture of 17th-century colonial life. Includes over 50 original documents providing details on life in Jamestown, a chronology, and a compilation of entries on the Powhatan confederacy, and more.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this e-book either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Landmarks of the American Revolution

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Producer:	Scribner's
Description:	State-by-state profiles of hundreds of hsitorical sites and landmarks associated with the American Revolutionary War. Revised edition (2006) of Mark Boatner's 1973 volume.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents The alphabetically-arranged eTable of Contents lists sites by state (and Canada). Open the article listings by clicking on the plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contain one or more particular terms or place. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: cemeter finds cemetery or cemeteries. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia

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Producer:	Indiana University Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Three-volume set, published in 2006, includes nearly signed 600 entries by over 200 scholars on "the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States." You can view the table of contents here.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into three volumes, beginning with "Abarca through Guzman." Any of the sections can be "opened" by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of many hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search -- find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: immigra finds immigration, immigrant, immigrants, etc. Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Women's and Gender Studies

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Laws That Shaped America: Fifteen Acts of Congress and Their Lasting Impact

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Producer:	Routledge / NetLibrary
Description:	2009 volume covers 15 prominent pieces of U.S. legislation, in each case examining "the forces and circumstances that led to its enactment... and the impact of the legislation and its place in American history." You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	Click on the tiny plus-signs [+] next to chapters in The Table of Contents (left side of screen) to open individual sections. For additional help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing NetLibrary e-books, see this page. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Legal and Constitutional

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Modern Scandals: 1904-2008

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Producer:	Salem Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Three-volume set, published in 2009, outlines over 300 scandals, defined as "typically high-profile events that garner considerable media attention and public discussion but nevertheless often remain poorly understood... generally understood as applying to misbehavior and wrongful acts." You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Journalism and Mass Communications

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Muckrakers and the Progressive Era

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Producer:	Omnigraphics / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Published in 2010, this is an "overview of the journalistic movement that exposed social and political problems in the United States and generated public support for major reforms during the first decade of the twentieth century." The entries are divided into three section: narrative overview; biographies (journalists and their subjects); and primary sources.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Journalism and Mass Communications

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New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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Producer:	Scribner's / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	This six-volume set (2004) is the first revision in 30 years of the classic Dictionary of the History of Ideas, one of the most important reference works ever published on "what we think" -- philosophical and theoretical concepts, historical, scientific, social, and critical issues, etc. A PDF copy of the table of contents is available here. The original edition is available online and in our Reference collection.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. Please note that the list is divided into 6 "volumes," beginning with "Abolitionism to Common Sense." You may open any of the article lists by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Humanities - General Philosophy Religion Science - General Social Sciences - General Sociology History -- Outside U.S. Politics -- Political Philosophy

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New Encyclopedia of Africa

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Producer:	Scribner's / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Edited by John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller, this five-volume set (2007) contains over 1,000 signed entries from about 600 contributors, addressing "the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations of the south through the colonial era to the emergence of 53 independent countries." You may view a copy of the table of contents here. Acquisition was made possible by the John Roser Bestor '82 Library Endowment Fund.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 3 volumes, beginning with "Abd ad Qadir - Cummings John." You may open the contents of any section of these volumes by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Please note the three essays which precede the alphabetical listing. Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Quick Search/Find option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains one or more particular terms. Be sure to click on the "within this publication" box. To find entries containing various forms of a word, use an asterisk () for missing letters. Example: coloni finds colonies, colonial, colonialism, colonialist, etc. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the Basic Search or Advanced Search options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Foreign and International

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Oxford African American Studies Center

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Producer:	Oxford University Press
Description:	Contains over 7,500 articles from Oxford University Press publications, some of which are not yet available in printed form, as well as primary source materials, maps, images, and more. In some cases, the entire contents of a publication might be included, such as the brand-new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619 to 1895 and the forthcoming African American National Biography and Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture. For more information, see this page and this one, too.
Usage Tips:	Search Each page offers a simple keyword "Search" box in the upper-right corner. To search for entries containing two or more words, connect the search words with AND. Example: tulsa AND riot To search for entries containing a multi-word phrase, enclose the search words within quotation marks. Example: "jim crow" To search for variations of a word, use an asterisk () as a "wild-card" character. Example: lynch will find lynch, lynched, lynching, lynchings, etc. Please note that search results are listed in order of relevance. A breakdown of resource types is displayed above each list. Browse The "Browse" option, near the upper-left corner, enables you to view lists of all articles in various categories. Choosing this option allows you to see the "Filter List" (left column), which contains two basic divisions, which you can open by clicking on the little plus-signs (+): "Eras," which contains chronological groupings, such as "Before 1400" "Category," which contains topical groupings, such as "History -- Gender and Sexuality."
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology African-American Studies

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Oxford Companion to American Military History

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference
Description:	1999 volume contains more than 1,100 signed, alphabetically-arranged entries from 500 distinguished contributors. You may preview the contents.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Oxford Companion to the Book

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Description:	Published in 2010 as a two-volume work, covering "the broad concept of the book throughout the world from ancient to modern times." Includes over 40 lengthy historical essays, plus about 5,000 alphabetically-arranged shorter entries, including definitions and biographical entries. Purchase was made possible by a generous gift from the Washington and Lee Friends of the Library.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing among the entries or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing Oxford Digital Reference Shelf ebooks, see this page. You can find the lengthy historical essays by using the "Browse" feature for entries beginning with the word Essay.
Descriptors:	History -- United States Literature and Language Journalism and Mass Communications History -- Outside U.S.

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Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online
Description:	Two-volume set (2013) offers "assessment and analysis of the key episodes, issues and actors in the military and diplomatic history of the United States," with 3,500 "entries written by renowned diplomatic and military historians as well as key scholars in international relations."
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Foreign and International

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Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online
Description:	Two-volume set (2012) contains over 450 signed essays (including entries from W&L professors Molly Michelmore and Harvey Markowitz) addressing "social structures and the environment that shaped American life, including family, work, leisure, social movements, and patterns of mobility and settlements," as well as themes relating to race, gender, ethnicity, and class.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing among the entries or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing Oxford Reference Online ebooks, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

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Producer:	Oxford University Press
Description:	Two-volume set (2004) covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink, including regions, people, ingredients, foods, drinks, publications, advertising, companies, historical periods, and political and economic aspects pertinent to American cuisine.
Usage Tips:	Searching Enter your search term(s) in the "Search" box near the upper-left corner of the initial page. This box moves to the upper-right corner in subsequent pages. To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose the words in quotation marks. Example: "gender roles". To search for entries containing two or more words, simply enter the words. Example: oil whale. To search for forms of a word, use an asterisk () to substitute for one or more letters. Exanple: diet* graham. List of Results* The results of a search are presented in order of relevance -- where and how often the search terms appear in an entry. Should you wish, you can re-arrange the entries in alphabetical order by using the "Order Results" option on the left side of the page. Viewing Entries The title of each entry is displayed in blue letters near the top of the page. There are several clickable viewing/searching options on the left side of the page: "Entry Sections" presents the component parts of the entry. "See Also" refers you to other relevant entries. (A similar list appears at the end of the entry.) "Adjacent Entries" presents a brief alphabetical list of entries, similar to browsing through a printed source. Printing and E-Mailing To print an entry, use your browser's print options. An "Email this Entry" appears in a green bar along the left side of entry pages.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online
Description:	Edited by Bonnie G. Smith, this four-volume work (2008) contains over 1,200 signed topical and biographical entries.
Usage Tips:	Searching The initial screen ("Search") is set up for a search of the complete text of this encyclopedia. The results of searches are arranged by relevance, with those articles containing search words in the title or other prominent location. To find articles containing a multi-word phrase, enter the words within quotation marks. Example: "right to vote". To search for various forms of a word, use an asterisk () as a wild-card term. Example: catholic will find catholic, catholics, catholicism etc. To find articles containing all of several words, connect with words with AND. Example: sexis AND pay* Browsing Choose the "Browse" option (in the navigation bar near the top of the screen) to browse through an alphabetical list of all essays.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Women's and Gender Studies History -- Outside U.S.

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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

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Producer:	Oxford University Press / Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Description:	Eight-volume set (2008) offers over 2,000 signed and alphabetically-arranged entries, providing coverage of social, economic, cultural and political topics, spanning the period from about 1750 to current times.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing among the entries or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing Oxford Digital Reference Shelf ebooks, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S.

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Pan-Africa History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787

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Producer:	Routledge / NetLibrary
Description:	Pan-African History contains biographical and critical essays on about 40 "thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past 200 years," including Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, and Frantz Fanon.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies History -- Outside U.S.

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People's Chronology

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Producer:	Gale
Description:	The 3rd edition of this resource contains a searchable database of nearly 45,000 chronologically-arranged entries outlining historical, social, political, scientific, artistic events from pre-history to 2004. Not published in printed form.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the chronologically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option. You may open any of the lengthier and more detailed century lists by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power, and Greed

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Producer:	Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Second edition (2008) contains more than 250 A–Z entries which "explore the people, crimes, investigations, and court cases behind 200 years of American political scandals." You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

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Political Lincoln: An Encyclopedia

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	This 2008 volume contains about 275 alphabetically-arranged signed articles, written by historians and Lincoln scholars, analyzing Lincoln's background, associates, events, and views as a politically oriented individual. Topic areas include "Lincoln’s democratic ideas and policies about slavery and emancipation, the emergence of the Republican Party, how Lincoln viewed the Civil War and how the war affected him, the major and minor figures in his life."
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Presidential Elections : 1789-2008

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Producer:	Congressional Quarterly Press / Ebrary
Description:	Released in 2009, this is the latest edition of this CQ series, now updated to include coverage of the 2008 Presidential contest. The volume includes descriptions of every Presidential campaign and election since 1789, including popular and electoral votes, as well as much more. You may preview the table of contents, near the bottom of this page.
Usage Tips:	You also can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Elections and Voting

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Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History

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Producer:	Princeton University Press / Ebrary
Description:	Two-volume encyclopedia (2009) contains nearly 190 entries, written by over 130 historians and other scholars, covering "both the traditional topics of political history -- such as eras, institutions, political parties, presidents, and founding documents -- and the wider subjects of current scholarship, including military, electoral, and economic events, as well as social movements, popular culture, religion, education, race, gender, and more." You may preview a list of alphabetically-arranged entries.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

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Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination: Racism in America

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	Part of the four-volume Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination (2004), this volume presents signed essays on the psychology and history of racism, including such topics as racism on college campuses and coping strategies. Other volumes deal with gender and sexual orientation, disabilities and physique, and ethnicity and multiracial identity.
Usage Tips:	Browsing You can browse the contents of this volume by using the table of contents listing of chapter titles in the left-hand column or the alphabetically-arranged Index option (lower-left of screen). Searching The "Quick Search" option, located near the top of the screen, allows you to search through the text of "This Title" (volume). To find entires containing a multi-word phrase, place the words within quotation marks. Example: "civil rights" To search for forms of a word, use and asterisk () to substitute for one or more letters. Example: lynch will find lynch, lynching, lynched, etc. To find entries containing two or more words, connect the words with AND. Example: teenage* AND discriminat*
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Psychology Sociology Politics -- American Politics African-American Studies

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Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprensive Encyclopedia

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	This two-volume set (2006) contains nearly 700 signed entries from about 80 scholars on the Puritan movement's "doctrines, its people, its effects on politics and culture, and its enduring legacy."
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Religion

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Racial and Ethnic Diversity in America

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	One-volume work (2003) explores population shifts, changing character of diversity in the United States, and addresses the impact of these changes on social institutions in 21st-century America, including social and demographic data, educational, economic, and occupational characteristics, and biographical profiles.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology African-American Studies

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Reference Sources in History; An Introductory Guide

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	This is the second edition of this fully-annotated guide to encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, handbooks, and more, providing about 900 entries on reference works on historical subjects, from ancient to modern.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Vaughan Stanley
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

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Revolutionary America, 1763-1815 : A Sourcebook

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Producer:	Routledge / Ebrary
Description:	2010 volume is a collection of primary source documents, with introductions and commentary. You may preview the contents. There are some additional materials in a companion Web site.
Usage Tips:	You can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page. For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Revolutionary Movements in World History

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Three-volume set (2006) contains signed entries on 79 revolutionary movements "of the past two-and-a-half centuries, from the American and French revolutions to the present, including historical backgrounds, analysis, domestic and international impacts, biographies, and references and further readings." Additional thematic essays. You can view the table of contents here. Purchase of this e-book was made possible by the Lois Ferguson and Fred Carrington Cole Endowment.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this e-book either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S.

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Richmond Daily Dispatch

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Producer:	Richmond Daily Dispatch
Description:	Digitized copies of this Richmond, Virginia newspaper, dated November 1860 through December 1865. As of November 2006, there are 1,384 issues of the paper available online.
Usage Tips:	Browsing There is a "Browse the Daily Dispatch" under "Other Options" on the right side of the opening page. Clicking on that option enables you to browse by years and dates. Searching A simple search function ("Enter word or phrase") is located on the left side of the opening page. More complex searching is offered under "Other Options," including "Simple Searches," "Proximity Searches," and "Boolean Searches." Viewing Results The contents of the paper are provided in two forms -- digitized page images and transcribed texts from the pages. As you view the results of Browsing, these two formats are clearly labelled. But the results of a Search are more complex: The "Results Details" link allows you to see the transcribed texts of an issue and an article. The "Table of Contents" link offers access to the transcribed text of an entire issue, as well as indiividual sections, along with page-by-page links to page images. Click on the page number for access to the latter.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Routledge Companion to Historical Studies

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Producer:	Routledge / NetLibrary
Description:	Historian Alun Muslow provides brief essays on "keywords, concepts, and issues central to the re-thinking of history that has taken place since the early 1970's... the ideas of key theorists and practioners of history, as well as awareness of ideas in cultural and critical theory, literature, linguistics, and philosophy." Examples: "Deconstructionist history" and "Gender." (Second edition, 2005)
Usage Tips:	Using NetLibrary While you are using this book, nobody else at W&L can open it. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "Close Item" option near the top of the screen, above the left-hand column. Otherwise, this book will be unavailable for 15 minutes. To open the book, click on "View this eBook." The next screen will display a graphic of the book's cover on the right side of the screen and a copy of the table on contents on the left side. Browsing You can use this table of contents to navigate the book. To open the section of the book containing the entry you want, click on the appropriate letter of the alphabet, so you can then page through the entire contents of that letter/chapter. Searching To search for a particular word or phrase within the book, click on the "Search" option, on the left side of the screen, then enter your word(s) within the "Search this eContent" box. At the bottom of the contents list is the "Index," which provide page numbers, with direct links to pages. Navigating Once you have opened an article, you can move from one page to another only by using the "Next" and "Previous" buttons, near the upper-right corner of the screen. Printing You may print only one page at a time. Use the Adobe Acrobat "print" icon (image of a printer), in the bar immediately above the article. Be sure to click on the "Close Item" option when you are finished.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Philosophy History -- Outside U.S.

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Sage Encyclopedia of Terrorism

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Producer:	Sage / Sage Reference Online
Description:	2011 volume contains about 400 signed entries and updates the 2002 first edition, revising earlier discussions and adding about 60 new entries. You may preview the contents.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Sociology Politics -- Foreign and International History -- Outside U.S. Islamic Studies

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Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide

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Producer:	Greenwood
Description:	This 2007 volume includes: thematic essays exploring the events, including historical background, interpretations, and aftermath; biographical sketches; 50 primary document excerpts, including petitions, letters, and revealing trial testimony; a chronology of events; a glossary of key names, terms, and language used at the trials.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Slavery in the United States

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Subtitled A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia, this two-volume set (2007) contains ten major essays, 300 alphabetically-arranged articles, primary source documents, and more. You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies

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Southern United States: An Environmental History

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	This 2006 volume "explores the historical and ecological dimensions of human interaction with the environment throughout Southern history." The arrengement of entries is mostly chronological, plus case studies, primary source documents, and more. You may view a copy of the table of contents.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	Environmental Studies History -- United States

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Speakers of the House of Representatives, 1789-2009

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Producer:	Grey House / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	This 2009 volume contains biographies on each of the 52 Speakers, as well as historical essays, primary source documents, and more. You may view a copy of the table of contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- Congressional Research

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Timelines

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Producer:	Oxford University Press
Sources:	Sources
Description:	This developing collection of chronologies is derived from the Oxford Reference Online (ORO) database. Thus far, the timelines are limited to 20th-century events.
Usage Tips:	Choose from the options under "Themes" or "Countries." To expand the options available within a particular theme, such as "Art and Architecture," click on the plus-sign (+). Each entry in a timeline is a link to more complete information in one of the sources in the ORO database.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Treaties with American Indians

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Three-volume set (2007) edited by Donald Fixico contains 300 A-to-Z entries, 16 thematic essays, primary sources, chronology, and more, with coverage from the mid-18th century to 2007.
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Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy from 1789 to the Present

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Signed essays on foreign policy-related issues on each U.S. president, from Washington to George W. Bush. Also includes primary source documents and chronologies. (Published 2006)
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Foreign and International

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Wars of the Americas; A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Two-volume set (2nd edition, 2008) offers a chronological "account of every major war and battle fought in the Americas." Volume 1 covers the earliest Spanish conquests through the 18th-century colonial conflicts, while Volume 2 begins with the (North) American Revolutionary War and continues through the 20th century. Acquisition was made possible by the McCrum Palmer Book Fund.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S. Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Who's Who Among African Americans

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Producer:	Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description:	Provides brief biographical and career details on more than 20,000 contemporary African Americans, including leaders from politics, the arts, business, sports, religion, etc. The above link takes you to the most recent (23nd) edition, published in 2009. We also have online access to these earlier editions: 19th 20th 22nd.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook by searching for a particular name or word in the "Search" box on the left side of the screen. When searching, the order of first name and last name should not matter. Example: Either muhammad ali or ali muhammad will work. If you are uncertain about the spelling of a first name or last name, enter what you are certain of. Example: ali (Of course, this search may result in a lengthy list of entries through which you must scroll.) For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. Browsing the table of contents will not work with Who's Who Among African-Americans. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies

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Women In Early America

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Published in 2004, this resource contains nearly 200 entries on women's lives, contributions, and struggles during the years of early America, including legal issues, ethnic groups, customs, habits of dress, material goods, and writings. Coverage begins with the 1607 settlement at Jamestown and ends with the War of 1812. Funding for this e-book was made possible by a gift in memory of Lewis P. Nelson III, Class of 1961.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Women's and Gender Studies

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Women in American Politics: History and Milestones

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Producer:	CQ Press / CQ Press Electronic Library
Description:	Two-volume work (2012) contains 19 thematic chapters ("Battle for the Vote," "State-by-State guide," etc.), plus biographies and data tables.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing the entries or by searching for a particular word. Browsing The initial screen offers chapter-by-chapter access to the contents. Searching The "Search" box at the top of the page enables you to search through all the words in the database. Use an asterisk to search for forms of a word. Example: discriminat* finds discrimination, discriminating, discriminatory, etc. To find entries containing two or more terms, connect them with AND. Example: republican* AND recruit* To find a multi-word term or phrase, enclose the search terms within quotation marks. Example: "birth control"
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics Women's and Gender Studies

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Women in Congress, 1917-2006

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Producer:	U. S. House of Representatives / GPOAccess
Description:	Profiles of the 229 women who have served in the U.S. Senate and House, divided into four "generations,"as well as historical and analytical material. Part of a series of House publications "highlighting the congressional service of women and minority groups." (See also this site on black Americans in Congress.) A more up-to-date directory of women in Congress is published by the Congressional Research Service.
Usage Tips:	To find an entry on a particular individual, you might want to consult the Index.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Congressional Research Women's and Gender Studies

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Women in the American Civil War

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Producer:	ABC-Clio
Description:	Two-volume set (2007) contains about 400 alphabetically-arranged entries on individuals, organizations, battles, and events of the Civil War. Also includes contextual essays, primary sources, and more.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing for a particular alphabetically-listed article or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

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Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America

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Producer:	Greenwood / ABC-Clio
Description:	This 2010 volume offers a concise overview of "the lives of white, black, and Native American women between 1700 and 1800." You may preview the contents.
Usage Tips:	You may find material in this ebook either by browsing within the sections and chapters or by searching for a particular word. For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Women's and Gender Studies

Producer:	University of Virginia / Rotunda
Description:	Self-described as the "definitive record of the nation’s first great political family." Comprises John Adams’s complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers -- all 30 volumes of the Adams Papers that have so far appeared in print. (Future volumes will appear in installments.) As the database continues to develop, newly-available materials may first appear in a separate location. The library also has printed volumes. Acquisition of this resource was made possible by a generous gift from the Friends of the Library of Washington and Lee University.
Usage Tips:	You may access the contents of this database either by browsing through entries or by searching for particular words or names within entries. Browse The opening page displays the "Contents" options through which you can browse, such as Diary and Autobiography.... Each section is sub-divided chronologically. You also may click on the "Chronology" option to access entries from all publication series, arranged chronologically. Important note: When moving between "Contents" and "Chronology," you may find it useful to re-set the browse options by clicking on "Adams" or "Adams Papers Digital Collection," to the right of "Contents" and "Chronology." Search Clicking on the "Search" option, near the top of the page, enables you to search for words or names within all database entries. The "Search" function allows, but does not require, you to stipulate the author and/or recipient of an item and/or its date. You also can choose to have the results of your search listed by date or by relevance. Forms of Words The search engine will automatically search for some alternate forms of words (fight will also find fights, fighting, and fought) as well as alternate spellings (choose will find chuse). You also can use an asterisk () as a wild-card character to search for additional forms of words. Example: rebel finds rebellion and rebellious, in addition to simpler forms. Phrases To search for a multi-word phrase, enclosed the words within quotation marks. Example: "sons of liberty " Combining Terms To find entries containing two or more terms, simply type them. Example: massachusetts indians
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

Producer:	University of California, Santa Barbara
Description:	Very useful compilation of documents, including "the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Washington - Taft (1789-1913); Public Papers of the Presidents, Hoover to Bush (1929-1993); Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2006)." Also other documents, statistical data, audio and video archive.
Usage Tips:	To search the contents of the database, select "Documents" (upper-right of page) and then use the subsequent page's "Search the Entire Document Archive" (lower-left in column).
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

Producer:	University of Virginia
Description:	Created by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, this is a non-partisan resource on the U.S. presidency, with essays on each administration.
Usage Tips:	Please note that there also is a President at Work section, which focuses on "the function, responsibilities, and organization of the modern presidency."
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

Producer:	University of Georgia
Sources:	Sources
Description:	Primary sources and other educational materials on the "struggle for racial equality in the 1950's and 1960's" in the U.S. Includes: a video archive of news footage; access to resources from over 75 universities, museums, archives, and other institutions; collections of instructional materials.
Usage Tips:	Searching The "Basic Search" option (upper left) enables you to search through the texts of all items descriptions. To search for descriptions containing two or more words, connect search terms with AND. Example: highlander AND communist To find descriptions containing a multi-word phrase, enclosed the search terms within quotation marks. Example: "rock hill" Browsing The "Browse" options (left side of page) allow you to look through: broad topic areas; a chronological list of events; alphabetical lists of people, places, and contributing institutions; types of media and teaching materials.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States African-American Studies

Producer:	Middle Tennessee State University
Description:	Provides access to over 400 "digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States."
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Women's and Gender Studies

Producer:	Columbia University Press/American Historical Association
Description:	A project intended to support and enhance scholarly writing by publishing a small handful (5 or 6 each year) of prize-winning dissertations as state-of-the-art electronic books. "While these digital monographs can be printed out and read in the traditional way, the electronic versions offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print: extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links..." You can see the titles in W&L's collection by viewing the list in Annie. Please note that this is not the same resource as Project Gutenberg.
Usage Tips:	Searching the Database At the top of the home page and other general-information pages (in the rose-colored area) is a Search option, which enables you to search through all words in all the books in the collection. To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose the terms within quotation marks. Example: "new deal" Individual Books You can open any of the individual books from the home page by clicking on the title you want. Once you have opened a book, you can search through the text of that work by using the search option at the top of the screen. Please note that other options at the top of each screen allow you to view links associated with the text, the list of references, and to print individual chapters.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

Producer:	Museum of Broadcast Communications
Description:	This site explores the history of televised presidential debates through 1996.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

Producer:	University of Michigan / OCLC
Sources:	Sources
Description:	OAIster (Open Archives Initiative) "harvests" collections of digital resources from nearly 300 academic and research-related institutions, now totaling over 23 million items. It focuses on materials (reports, studies, other documents) created at respected academic and research institutions.
Usage Tips:	To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "washington and lee university" To search for items containing two or more terms, simply type the words, with no connecting words. Example: rockbridge civil war You may search for forms of a word by using an asterisk () as a wild-card symbol. Example: ethnic will find ethnic, ethnics, ethnicity, etc. Links to the complete content of any individual item may be available through the "Links to this item" or "Access" options on the page describing an item.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Economics

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Description:	Directory of historical societies, preservation organizations, "main street" groups, etc.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Anthropology and Archaeology

Producer:	Miller Center of Public Affairs
Description:	A collection of U.S. presidential speeches. The 20th-century speeches include audio.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

Producer:	Bernan Press
Description:	Third edition (2004) of this work provides time series data on aspects of American history, including population, health, politics and elections, business, incomes, energy, communications, and more.
Usage Tips:	Statistical tables, provided in HTML and PDF formats, are accompanied by introductory narratives, which often include information on sources.. You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word. Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the Table of Contents option. You may open any of the topic groups, such as "Social Welfare," by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). eBook Index You may browse through an alphabetically-arranged lsit of entries by clicking on the eBook Index option.. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms. Gale Virtual Reference Library This encyclopedia is one of several in our Gale ebook collection. You can search through all the sources in that collection by using the "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" options, near the top of the page. Delivery Printing -- You may print the text (and graphics) of an article by clicking on the "Print" option displayed in the upper-left portion of the screen to re-format the article, then using your browser's printing features. E-Mail -- You may e-mail an article by choosing the "E-mail" option, near the upper-left corner of the screen. Please note that you will have several format options for delivering the e-mail.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

Producer:	U.S. Census Bureau
Description:	Scanned pages of the 1976 two-volume compilation of time-series data on U.S. history. A more up-to-date edition (2006) is available here.
Usage Tips:	Look for the Bicentennial Edition link, near the middle of this Statistical Abstracts page. Open the "Contents of Parts 1 and 2" (which is available in both parts) to see which volume/part you should use. The "Subject Index" covering both volumes/parts is also available in both. The library also has the printed volumes in the Reference collection: REF HA 202..A38 1976
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States

Producer:	Palgrave / Palgrave Connect
Description:	Three-volume set (2013) provides "access to over 200 years of statistics taken from hundreds of disparate primary sources, including both official national and international abstracts." Data coverage extends from 1750 to 2010, but dates of coverage vary among topics and countries.
Usage Tips:	Users need to browse within each of the geographically-oriented volumes. There are no "search" functions within this database, other than those associated with Excel and PDF documents. You can open any volume or any section by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign [+] until you get to the level of access you need. Tables are available in Excel ("Download") and PDF ("View") formats.
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States History -- Outside U.S.

Producer:	American Antiquarian Society / Tufts University
Description:	Derived from from contemporary sources such as newspapers, original election ballots, and county histories. Very diverse and wide-ranging collection of data, covering offices from the Federal to the local levels, from presidential elections to town clerk voting. A work-in-progress, covering (as of October 2007) over 15,000 elections.
Usage Tips:	Browseable by candidate name, office, year, and state. Searchable by keyword (such as rockbridge).
Librarian:	Dick Grefe
Descriptors:	History -- United States Politics -- American Politics

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