African American Almanac
Author/Editor: Christopher A. Brooks
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Provides a range of historical and current information on African
American history, society and culture. Includes coverage of such topics
as: Africa and the Black diaspora; film and television; landmarks;
national organizations; population; religion; science and technology;
and sports.
American Decades (1900-1999)
Author/Editor: Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent Tompkins
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: Gale
Cross-disciplinary source for students and researchers who need to document
and analyze periods of contemporary American social history (1900-1999). Each volume of this collection covers one decade, addressing topics like the arts, business, fashion, government, science, and sports.
American Decades (2000-2009)
Author/Editor: Eric Bargeron and James F. Tidd, Jr.
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Covers everything from monumental events and groundbreaking individuals
to the fascinating details of Americans' daily lives. Supports
historical research in disciplines from the arts and business to law,
medicine, technology and social trends.
American Decades Primary Sources
Author/Editor: Cynthia Rose
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Gale
Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume in the
set includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal
issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral
histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts,
letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes,
and more.
American History through Literature, 1820-1870
Author/Editor: Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Gale
This set presents literature not as a
simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and
cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives.
The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary
criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect
literature, but literature itself informs history.
American National Biography
Author/Editor: Susan Ware
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford
The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.
Arts and Humanities
Author/Editor: Brenda Jo Brueggemann & Gary L. Albrecht
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores the arts and humanities within the lives of people with disabilities.
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
Author/Editor: Edward I. Bleiberg, James Allan Evans, Kristen Mossler Figg, Philip M. Soergel, and John Block Friedman
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: Gale
Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and
religion from a specific period, each volume in this set helps students
and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in
relation to each other, as well as to history and culture. An overview
of the period and a chronology of major world events begin each volume.
Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading
Author/Editor: Kenneth Womack
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Provides a historical overview of the development of the genre, a
definition, and discussion and brief analyses of works, with the most
emphasis on those published by major authors from 1980 to the present.
Credo Reference
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Publisher: Credo Reference
More than 550 highly regarded, current reference works, including general and subject-specific encyclopedias, images, dictionaries, atlases, and directories; covers many subject areas.
Oxford Reference Online
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Publisher: Oxford
More than 100 reference works published by Oxford University Press, including academic encyclopedias, dictionaries, and directories covering all subject areas.
Cultural History of Reading
Author/Editor: Gabrielle Watling
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Covers books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in
both the U.S. and regions all over the world; includes fiction and
literature, religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home
guides.
Encyclopedia Britannica - Academic Edition
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Publisher: Britannica
A combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica plus
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and
periodicals, and many other research tools. Britannica’s contributors include an
extensive network of renowned scholars (including former U.S. presidents
and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners), advisers, content specialists,
and writers—whose job it is to ensure that Britannica is current,
accurate, unbiased, comprehensive, relevant, international in scope, and
engaging to college-level learners, researchers, and faculty.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Author/Editor: Colin A. Palmer
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Gale
A five-volume set and supplement covering all aspects of the
African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using
biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces, many written by
foremost scholars, it addresses a wide array of subjects in over 2,300
articles to define in one source the cultural roots, participation in
American life, and current condition of the African-American community.
Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture
Author/Editor: S. T. Joshi
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture
is a comprehensive encyclopedia relating to all phases of vampirism—in
literature, film, and television; in folklore; and in world culture.
Although previous encyclopedias have attempted to chart this terrain, no
prior work contains the depth of information, the breadth of scope, and
the up-to-date coverage of this volume.
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
Author/Editor:
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Gale
Covers world authors from many periods and genres, building an
understanding of the various contexts -- from the biographical to the
literary to the historical -- in which literature can be viewed.
Identifies the significant literary devices and global themes that
define a writer's style and place the author in a larger literary
tradition as chronicled and evaluated by critics over time.
Literature Resource Center
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Publisher: Gale
The
world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database. Full-text articles from scholarly journals
and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic
overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of
information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Content covering all genres and disciplines,
all time periods and all parts of the world.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Author/Editor: Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: Gale
A six-volume survey of the history of Western thought and culture,
presented through 700 alphabetically arranged entries. Each entry
explores the origin, cultural interpretations, and historical themes of
such subjects as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital,
among many others.
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Publisher: Portland State University
A free, authoritative, and continuously updated encyclopedia of all things Oregon.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Author/Editor:
Publication Date: Current
Publisher: Oxford
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely considered the definitive record of the English language and traces the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000+ English words over the last 1,000 years. The use and changing meaning of words is illustrated by over 3 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The online version is updated every 3 months.
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry
Author/Editor: Anne Marie Hacht
Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: Gale
Collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars. Each entry
includes an introduction; a plot synopsis; a character list; a
discussion of the work's principal themes; information about the style
and literary devices used; a conversation about the work's historical
context; and a critical overview.
Twenty-First Century Novels: The First Decade
Author/Editor: Jeffrey W. Hunter
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: Gale
Brings the most important fictional works of the last 10 years into
view, discussing plot, characters, critical reception and more. Features
broad coverage of multiethnic/multicultural communities and curricula,
bringing an insight to readers of contemporary global literature in
English translation.
Witchcraft in America
Author/Editor: Peggy Saari and Elizabeth Shaw
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: Gale
This fascinating and informative source covers the history of witchcraft
in the United States from the hysteria that facilitated the witch hunts
during the colonial period to modern day followers of Wicca.