Reference Training Materials

This material was used in the graduate Library Media Education program at Western Kentucky University. It is placed here to allow library workers to train themselves in the use of reference materials. Copyright 2001 - 2005 Bryan M. Carson.
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History Resources

Indexes and Abstracts

America: History and Life (REF PER/IND E 11 .A35x and ABC/CLIO)
Historical Abstracts (REF PER/IND D 299 .H5 and ABC/CLIO)
Handbook of Latin American Studies (WKU Internet Resources)

Chronologies

Annual Register of World Events (REF D 2 .A7)
Chase's Calendar of Events Formerly Chase's Annual Events (REF GT 4803 .C48)
Chronology of European History (REF D 11 .C57 1997)
Facts on File (REF D 410 .F3)
Keesing's Contemporary Archives and Keesing's Records of World Events (Ref D410 .K45x )
Timelines on File (REF D 11 .T54 2000)

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Almanacs, and Handbooks

African-American Encyclopedia
African-American Slave Narratives (REF E 444 .A23 2001)
The American Indian and the United States (REF E 93 .W27 1979)
The Cambridge Ancient History (REF D 57 .C25)
The Cambridge Modern History (REF D 208 .C17 1969)
Catholic Encyclopedia (www.newadvent.org/cathen/) and New Catholic Encyclopedia (REF BX 841 .B695)
Dictionary of the Middle Ages (REF D 114 .D5 1982)
Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (REF E 172 .D5x)
Encyclopaedia Judaica (REF DS 102.8 .E496)
Encyclopedia of American Migration (REF JV 6465 .E53 2001)
Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies (E 467 .E53 2000)
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (REF D 804.25 .E53 2000)
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture (REF E 185 .E54 1996)
Encyclopedia of Asian History (REF DS 31 .E53 1988)
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writings (REF D 14 .E53x)
Encyclopaedia of Islam (REF DS 35.53 .E533 D66)
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (REF F 1406 .E53 1996)
Encyclopedia of Louisville (REF F 459 .L85 E54 2001)
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (REF E 802 .D5413x 2001)
Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal (REF E 806 .C543 2001)
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (REF DS 43 .E53 1996)
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (REF E 45 .E53 1993)
Encyclopedia of the Korean War (REF DS 918 .E53 2000)
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (REF CB 361 .E52 1999)
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (REF DS 557.7 .E53)
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (REF E 169.1 .E626 2001)
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (REF E183.7 .E53 1997)
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (REF E 183.7 .E53 1997)
Great Events from History (REF E 178 .M22)
Historic Conditions and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States*
Kentucky Encyclopedia (Ref Desk F 451 .K413 1992)
Kings, Rulers and Statesmen (REF D 107 .W5 1976)
The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History--Continued by The Modern encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history (MERSH) (REF DK 14 .M6)
Encyclopedia of Aisan History (REF DS 31 .E53 1988)