GSU Library Research Guides: History: General: Reference

Reference Materials

Condense information into a general overview.

May be written by scholars in the field.

Provide details about key people & events - use this info to refine your searches.

Contain suggestions for further reading.

History Reference Source This link opens in a new window
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General history reference database.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Online bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online This link opens in a new window
Illustrated collection of more than 57,000 biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Islamic Studies Online product site has been retired and has now moved to Oxford Reference or Oxford Handbooks Online.
Titles added to Oxford Reference are:
The Oxford Encyclopedias of the Islamic World: Digital Collection, , Liberal Islam, Makers of Contemporary Islam, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford History of Islam, Islam in Transition, Modernist Islam.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome by Michael Gagarin, ed.
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Click here to access.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History
Call Number: Ref. D23 .B45 2005
Library North 2 | Reference (Non-Circulating)
American National Biography
Call Number: Ref. CT213 .A68 1999
Library North 2 | Reference (Non-Circulating)
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia by Rodriguez, Junius P.
Call Number: Ref. E441 .S635 2007 vol.1-2
Library North 2 | Reference (Non-Circulating)
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History
Call Number: Ref. E468 .E53 2000
Library North 2 | Reference (Non-Circulating)
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History
Call Number: Ref. HD8066 .A78 2007
Library North 2 | Reference (Non-Circulating)
Collins Atlas of World War II
Call Number: Ref. G1038 .C65 2006
Library North 2 | Reference (Non-Circulating)
Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Call Number: DS119.7 .K85 2015
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