Helpful Hints
Specialized subject encyclopedias are a great way to get an overview of your topic, perhaps get citations to relevant works to get you started looking for books.
These are just some of the most relevant for this class. Be sure to browse the shelves in the Reference Collection. You can also find some online, be sure to add (encyclopedia* or dictionar*) to your keyword search!
Specialized Reference Materials & Biographical Information
- Oxford African American Studies CenterThe Oxford African American Studies Center is a comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes maps, timelines, charts and tables!
- African American Music ReferenceAfrican American Music Reference, a resource under development, brings together reference texts, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Coverage includes blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Civil Rights Encyclopedias
- The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in AmericaPrint: 3 vols. Ref E 185.61 .E544 1998
- Civil Rights in the United StatesPrint: 2 vols. Ref E 184.A1 C47 2000
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: from Emancipation to the Twenty-First CenturyPrint: 2 vols. Ref E 185.61 .E54 2003
Regional Encyclopedias
- The Encyclopedia of New England: the Culture and History of an American RegionPrint: Ref F 4 .E53 2005
- The Encyclopedia of New York CityPrint: Ref F 128.3 .E75 1995. Also in the Stacks!
- The Encyclopedia of New York StatePrint: Ref F 119 .E53 2005
- Encyclopedia of the CityPrint: Ref HT 108.5 .E63 2005
- The Timeline History of New York CityPrint: Ref F 128.3 .T56 2003
- Encyclopedia of New JerseyPrint: Tisch Book Stacks F 132 .E52 2004
- The Encyclopedia of Southern HistoryPrint: Ref F 207.7 .E52.
- Encyclopedia of AlabamaSections on arts and literature, education, history, government and politics, etc.
