Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Online Dictionary and Encyclopedias

These are cross-searchable online dictionaries and encyclopedias. Use the Oxford Reference box to the right for quick searches in the historical sources only.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library [GVRL]

  Gale Virtual Reference Library offers online access to reference sources including encyclopedias, almanacs, series and more. UMBC titles cover biography, business, law, public health, economic history, and multicultural studies.

• Oxford Reference Online

  It brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. Includes general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional sources.

• Cambridge Histories Online

  Cambridge Histories Online offers online accessibility to full text titles for any type of historical research or study of a subject that has an historical element. Includes all the latest editions of the print series with automatic updates.

• Encyclopaedia Iranica

  Coverage: ancient-
  The Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.

• Encyclopedia of the Cold War [ABC-Clio].
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.
• Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
  available through Gale Virtual Reference Library under the Science tab

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

The Reference Collection holds a variety of dictionaries and encyclopedias on historical topics. Call numbers for History are primarily in the Ds, Es, and Fs. Browse the shelves or use the library catalog to find specific titles.

• Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 1982.
  Location: REF D114.D5
• Facts on File Yearbooks. 1941 - present.
  Location: REF D410.F3
• English Historical Documents. (c. 500 - 1914).
  Location: REF DA26.E55
• Sources in British Political History. 1975.
  Location: DA566.7.C66
• Modern Japan: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism. 1998.
  Location: REF DS805.M63
• Encyclopedia of American History. 2003.
  Location: REF E174.E53
• Historical statistics of the United States: earliest times to the present. 2006, v.1-5.
  Location: REF HA202.H57
• Historical Documents (U.S). 1972 - present.
  Location: REF E839.5.H57
• Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
  Location: REF Q141.D5

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