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BIOGRAPHY

Title Call Number
Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (2 vols.) Ref U52.A43 2003
American Military Leaders  (2 vols.) Ref U52.F84 1999
American National Biography  (24 vols.) Ref E176.A64 1999
American Secretaries of the Navy  (2 vols.) Ref VB23.A57
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005  
Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa  (2 vols.)  
The Chiefs of Naval Operations Ref VA58.C47
Commandants of the Marine Corps Ref VE24.C65 2004
Dictionary of Admirals in the U. S. Navy  (2 vols., through 1918) Ref V11.U7C69 1989
Dictionary of American Biography  (11 vols.) Ref E176.D563
Dictionary of American Military Biography  (3 vols.) Ref U52.D53 1984
Encyclopedia of World Biography  (21 vols. in print; 27 vols online) Ref CT103.E56 1998
Famous American Admirals Ref V62.R48 2002
The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography Ref U51.D87 1992
Historic World Leaders  (5 vols.) Ref D412.H57 1994
Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime  (3 vols.) Ref E181.H755 2006
Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia Ref D115.K49 2006
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (77 vols.) Ref E176.N29
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (60 vols.) Ref DA 28 .O95 2004
Quarterdeck and Bridge: Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders Ref E182.Q37 1997
20th Century World Leaders  (5 vols.) Ref D412.B56 2000
U. S. Marine Corps Biographical Dictionary Ref E182.S39
U. S. Navy Biographical Dictionary Ref E182.S45
Who's Who in Naval History: From 1550 to the Present Ref V61.W54 2004

 

GENERAL DICTIONARIES

Title Call Number
Oxford English Dictionary (20 vols.) Ref PE 1625 .O87

 

GENERAL HISTORY

Title Call Number
AHA Guide to Historical Literature (2 vols.) Ref D20.A55 1995
A Companion to American Thought Ref E169.1.C685 1995
Dictionary of the History of Ideas (5 vols.) CB5.D52
Encyclopedia of Globalization  (4 vols.) Ref JZ1318.E63 2007
Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing  (2 vols.) Ref D13.G47 1998
Global Perspectives on the United States: A Nation by Nation Survey  (3 vols.) Ref E895.G56 2007
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life  (6 vols.) Ref GT31.G74 2004
Kessing's Contemporary Archives and Record of World Events  (since 1931) Ref D410.K4
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (6 vols.) Ref CB9.N49 2005

 

REGIONS OF THE WORLD

Title Call Number
Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience  (5 vols.) Ref DT14.A37435 2005
Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara  (4 vols.) Ref DT351.E53 1997
Encyclopedia of Asian History  (4 vols.) Ref DS31.E53 1988
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe Ref DJK6.E53 2000
Encyclopedia of India  (4 vols.) Ref DS405.E556 2006
Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture  (2 vols.)  
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (5 vols.) Ref F1406.E53 1996
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (6 vols.) Ref DS4.E53 2002
Encyclopedia of Russian History  (4 vols.) Ref DK14.E53 2004
Encyclopedia of Stateless Nations (4 vols.) Ref D860.M56 2002
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa  (4 vols.) Ref DS43.E53 2004
Encyclopedia of the World's Nations and Cultures  (4 vols.) Ref G63.K874 2007
Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia  (2 vols.) Ref D1051.E87 2001
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan  
Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History  (63 vols.) Ref DK14.M6
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World  (4 vols.) Ref DS35.53.O95 1995
Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angor Wat to East Timor (3 vols.) Ref DS524.S68 2004
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (12th ed., 5 vols., 2007)  

 

STATISTICS

Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present  (5 vols.)

Ref HA202.H57 2006
Statistical Abstract of the United States (since 1878) Ref HA202.U55 2008 (older years in general collection)

 

U. S. HISTORY

Title Call Number
African American Encyclopedia (10 vols.) Ref E185.A253 2001
American Decades Primary Sources (10 vols.) Ref E169.1.A471977 2004
American Eras Ref E169.1.A47 1979
American Icons: An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture  (3 vols.) Ref E169.1.A472155 2006
American Indian History (2 vols.) Ref E77.A496 2003
American Presidents Year by Year (3 vols.) Ref E176.1.N44 2004
Annals of America  (22 vols.) Ref E173.A793
Atlas of the Baby Boom Generation Ref E741.A88 2000
Dictionary of American History  (10 vols.) Ref E174.D52 2003
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History  (5 vols.) Ref E162.C68 2006
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History  (6 vols.) Ref E185.E54 1996
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895  (3 vols.) Ref E185.E545 2006
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (3 vols.) Ref E183.7.E52 2002
Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents  (3 vols.) Ref E173.E54 2004
Encyclopedia of American History (10 vols.) Ref E174.E53 2003
Encyclopedia of American Immigration  (4 vols.) Ref JV6465.E53 2001
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements  (4 vols.) Ref HN57.E585 2004
Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America (3 vols.) Ref E185.61.E544 1998
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion  (2 vols.) Ref E447.E53 2007
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States, 1754-1829  (3 vols.) Ref E301.E53 2006
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies  (3 vols.) Ref E45.E53 1993
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (3 vols.) Ref E169.1.E626 2001
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century  (5 vols.) Ref E740.E53 1996
Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations  (4 vols.) Ref E183.7.E53 1997
Encyclopedia of War & American Society  (3 vols.) Ref E181.E68 2006
The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia  (2 vols.) Ref E169.1.Y595 2007
Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture (4 vols.) Ref E169.1.G7555 2002
Historical Encyclopedia of U. S. Presidential Use of Force, 1789-2000 Ref E176.1.H56 2001
Oxford Companion to United States History Ref E174.O94 2001
Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History  (4 vols.) Ref E169.12.P654 2007
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia  (2 vols.)  

 

WARS AND MILITARY HISTORY

Title Call Number
American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-Present Ref VA58.4.S94 2002
The American Revolution: An Encyclopedia  (2 vols.) Ref E208.A433 1993
Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront  (4 vols.) Ref E181.A453 2005
America's Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the Present Ref E181.F83 2001
America's Wars Ref E181.A94 2002
Atlas of American Military History Ref E181.M94 2005
Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present Ref D25.5.D32 2001
Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography Ref U24.B73 1994
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships  (9 vols.) Ref VA61.D53
Dictionary of Battles and Sieges  (3 vols.) Ref D25.J33 2007
Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars Ref DC151.P67 1999
Dictionary of Wars Ref D25.A2D53 2007
Empires At War: A Chronological Encyclopedia (3 vols.) Ref U29.G232 2005
Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890 Ref E81.K44 1997
Encyclopedia of American Military History (3 vols.) Ref E181.E63 2003
Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517-1916 Ref E46.5.P87 2000
Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II  (4 vols.) Ref D843.E46 2007
Encyclopedia of Guerrilla Warfare Ref U240.B43 1999
Encyclopedia of Invasions and Conquests from Ancient Times to the Present Ref D25.A2D38 2006
Encyclopedia of Naval History Ref V27.B86 1998
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution  (2 vols.) Ref E208.E63  2006
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War  (5 vols.) Ref E468.E53 2000
Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History  (5 vols.) Ref E208.E64 2006
Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History  (3 vols.)  
Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History   (3 vols) Ref DS918.E53 2000
Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War Ref UF500.G8 1995
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History   (3 vols.) Ref DS557.7.E53 1998
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 Ref E354.E53 1997
Encyclopedia of Wars (3 vols.) Ref D25.A2P49 2005
Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social and Military History  (5 vols.) Ref D522.5.W67 2005
Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, and Military History  (5 vols.) Ref D740 .E516 2005
English Battlefields: An Illustrated Encyclopedia Ref DA50 .R39 2004
Facts About the American Wars Ref E181.F28 1998
Greenwood Library of American War Reporting (8 vols.) Ref D5 .G84 2005
The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History Ref D25.D86 1993
Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Ref DS119.7.K85 2006
The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II  (3 vols.)  
International Military and Defense Encyclopedia (6 vols.) Ref U24.I58 1993
The Korean War: An Exhaustive Chronology  (3 vols.) Ref DS918.H336 2007
Magill's Guide to Military History  (5 vols.) Ref D25.A2M34 2001
Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War I  (12 vols.) Ref D522.5.M39 1984
Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II  (11 vols.) Ref D743.2.M37 1981
Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century  
The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy Ref G1201.S1S8 1995
Naval Warfare: An Illustrated History Ref D27.N38 1983
Naval Warfare: An International Encyclopedia (3 vols.) Ref V23.N32 2002
100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present Ref D25.D365 1999
Oxford Companion to Military History Ref D25.A2O94 2001
Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History  (4 vols.) Ref VK15.O84 2007
Political History of America's Wars Ref E181.A945 2007
Reference Guide to United States Military History  (5 vols.) Ref E181.R34 1991
The Seventy Great Battles in History Ref D25.S447 2005
Strategic Intelligence  (5 vols.) Ref UB250.S6385  2007
The United States and Mexico at War Ref E404.U66 1998
The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History Ref DA68 .R38 2004
War in Peace: The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Postwar Conflict  (13 vols.) Ref U42.W373 1985
The War of 1898 and U. S. Interventions, 1898-1934: An Encyclopedia Ref E745.W37 1994
Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present Ref E18.75.M374 1998
Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present  (2 vols.) Ref U24.W69 2006
The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations That Changed the Course of History Ref U27.W67 1988
World Conflicts and Confrontations  (4 vols.) Ref D860.W64 2000
World In Conflict, 1914-1945 Ref D431.S45 2000
World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia Ref D767.W68 2001

 

WORLD HISTORY

Title Call Number
The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization  (2 vols.) Ref D114.N66 2006
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (5 vols.) Ref D23.B45 2005
Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization Ref DE5.C28 2006
Chronology of the Cold War, 1917-1992 Ref D840.B78 2006
Chronology of World History  (4 vols.) Ref D11.M39 1999
The Cold War, 1945-1991  (3 vols.) Ref D839.5.C65
Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (3 vols.) Ref JV22.C65 2003
The Crusades: An Encyclopedia  (4 vols.) Ref D155.C78 2006
Dictionary of the Middle Ages  (14 vols.) Ref D114.D5 1982
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece Ref DF16.E52 2006
Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World  (4 vols.) Ref CB311.E533 2008
Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914  (2 vols.) Ref D358.E53 2008
Encyclopedia of the Cold War  (2 vols.) Ref D840.E625 2008
Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History  (5 vols.) Ref D840.E63  2008
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust  (4 vols.) Ref D804.3.E53 1990
Encyclopedia of the Medieval World (2 vols.) Ref D114.E52 2005
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance  (6 vols.) Ref CB361.E52 1999
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450  (3 vols.)  
Encyclopedia of World Cultures  (10 vols.) Ref GN307.E53 1991
Global History : Cultural Encounters from Antiquity to the Present  (4 vols.) Ref D20.G57 2004
Great Events: The Twentieth Century  (10 vols.) Ref D422.G72 1992
Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources  
Oxford Classical Dictionary Ref DE5.O9 1996
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt  (3 vols.) Ref DT58.O94 2001
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World  (8 vols.) Ref D205.O94 2008
Purnell's History of the 20th Century  (10 vols.) Ref D421.P87
Revolutionary Movements in World History: From 1750 to the Present  (3 vols.) Ref D295.R49 2006

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