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Use these Reference databases to find and access articles in a variety of encyclopedias and subject dictionaries:
Selected Reference sources for your class
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec,and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
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- Uris Library Reference E 169.1 E624x 2001
- A 3-volume encyclopedia that attempts "to comprehend the ever-changing character and rich variety of American thought and expression." (Introduction) Includes articles on advertising, media, visual arts, and technology.
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec, ed. Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1992.
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- Uris Library Reference HN 57 .E56 1992; also Olin Library Reference
- This 3-volume encyclopedia uses the scholarship of historians, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists to present various aspects of
American social history, including periods of social change, patterns of everyday life, family history and science,
medicine and technology.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1978- .
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- Uris Library Reference
PS 129 D55+; selected volumes in Olin Ref PS 129 D55+
- Also available online as part of the Literature Resource Center.
Provides biographical and critical material on major writers, including bibliographies of works by and about the authors.
- Howard, Angela M and Frances M. Kavenik. Handbook of American Women's History. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.
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- Uris Library Reference HQ 1410 .H36x 2000
- Includes entries on events, organizations, books, court cases, statutes, occupations, and concepts in the field of American women's history.
- Ness,Immanuel ed. Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. 4 vols. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
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- Olin Library Reference HN 57 .E594 2004
- Includes entries on the antislavery, civil rights, women's, labor, and environmental movements.
- Opdycke, Sandra. The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America. New York: Routledge, 2000.
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- Uris Library Reference HQ 1410 .P68x 2000
- Contains a variety of colorful maps and charts that document milestones in the evolution of the social and political rights of women. Coverage includes the rise of reform movements such as temperance, women's suffrage, and abolition during the 19th century, and contraception, abortion rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 20th.
- Rappaport, Helen. Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
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- Uris Library Reference HQ 1236 .R29x 2001
- Includes profiles of more than 400 women social reformers.
- Literature Resource Center. [Farmington Hills, MI] : Gale Group, c1999-.
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Draws from Gale Group's core literary databases including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
- American Memory Washington, DC : Library of Congress, National Digital Library Program, 1994- .
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- American Memory provides access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.
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- Making of America: The Cornell University Library MOA collection Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Library, 1996- .
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A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
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- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections, 2000- .
Samuel J. May
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- Searchable digital collection of pamphlets and leaflets donated to Cornell University by abolitionist and humanitarian Samuel J. May. Covers the anti-slavery struggle at local, regional, national, and international levels during the ante-bellum and Civil War periods in America. Includes essays, sermons, speeches, court proceedings and decisions, etc.
Activities of churches and women's societies in opposing slavery are heavily documented. Contributors include Gerrit Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, and many others.
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