Biographical Sources
Biographical sources can help find the provenance of a book.
- Dictionary of Literary BiographyProvides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
- Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyMajor resource for finding British biographies, online. Be sure to look up your person in the print Dictionary of National Biography below.
- The Dictionary of National BiographyPrint: 22 volumes plus supplements. Ref DA 28 .D48. The major resource for finding famous Britons.
- Who Was WhoConsult for individuals who would have been still alive into the 20th Century
Print: DA 28 .W65 v.1897-1916 - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: in Association with the British Academy: from the Earliest Times to the Year 2000Print: 61 vols. Ref DA 28 .O95 2004
- Dictionary of American BiographyPrint: Ref E 176 .D56 22 volumes.
Major print resource for famous Americans living up to 1950
Tufts History
- Light on the Hill: A History of Tufts College, Since 1952Published in 1986
- An Entrepreneurial University: the Transformation of Tufts, 1976-2002By Sol Gittleman. 2004
Print: Tisch Book Stacks LD 5393 .G58 2004
Book and Printing Encylopedias
- A Companion to the History of the BookPrint: Tisch Book Stacks Z 4 .C73 2009
- The Oxford Companion to the BookPrint: 2 vols. Ref Z 4 .O946 2010
- Encyclopedia of the BookPrint: Ref Z 118 .G55 1996
- American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking; Containing a History of these Arts in Europe and America, with Definitions of Technical Terms and Biographical SketchesPrint: Ref Z 118 .A6 1967
- Glaister's Glossary of the Book: Terms Used in Papermaking, Printing, Bookbinding and Publishing with Notes on Illuminated Manuscripts and Private PressesPrint: Tisch Book Stacks Z 118 .G55 1979
Online Encyclopedia
- European History Online — EGOEGO | European History Online is a transcultural history of Europe on the Internet. The project investigates processes of intercultural exchange in European history whose impact extended beyond state, national and cultural borders. EGO describes Europe as a constantly changing communicative space which witnessed extremely varied processes of interaction, circulation, overlapping and entanglement, of exchange and transfer, but also confrontation, resistance and demarcation.
