Resources for History Graduate Students

Searchable bibliography of printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

Scholarly biographical articles with short bibliographies on deceased notable Americans.

Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Biographical information on thousands of people throughout history and from around the world.

Provides about 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Biographies of significant men and women in all areas of British history, from the fourth century BCE-present.

Original scholarly biographies of hundreds of notable Americans.

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Full-text access to Wiley journals and books. Covers business & economics, history, language & linguistics, literature & cultural studies, philosophy & religion, and sociology and psychology. Includes the Blackwell Companions and Handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions.

Britannica Online contains the text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica plus thousands of additional articles and images. Includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, World Atlas, Timelines and more.

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) provides access to early books and manuscripts that document the English language from the beginning of printing in England to 1702. With over 150 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries and glossaries (in which either source or target language is English), as well as linguistic treatises, and encyclopedic or topical work LEME gives excellent opportunities for research for historians of the English language. A half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia.

Traces the usage of words, past and present, through three million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

Full text of Oxford's French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese/English dictionaries. Includes audio pronunciation.

A collection of reference titles in a number of broad subject areas. Search for dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates, and quotations simultaneously or select a subject or title to search.

Full text of over 300 volumes published since the 1960's.

This long-awaited update to the original Dictionary of the History of Ideas is "designed to introduce a general audience to the main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the twenty-first century."

In-depth chronological overview of important economic, political or social issues.

OAASC database is a comprehensive compendium focusing on the "lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture". The database includes encyclopedias, biographies, primary sources, images and more to support research in African and African Diaspora Studies.

The Encyclopedia of American Studies brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. With over 800 online, searchable articles and bibliographies, the Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplinary lines.

Oxford Art Online is a gateway to full text articles in Grove Art Online, the most comprehensive, scholarly encyclopedic reference, and other art reference resources, including the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

Based upon the most important encyclopaedia in the world for medievalists, LexMA's signed articles written by 3,000 authors cover all aspects of medieval studies within the period 300 to 1500.

A scholarly resource for information about persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities with brief entries and lengthy articles with bibliographies on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, and musicians among others.

Overview articles about major world developments from 1750-present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics.

Interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present.

Major English language encyclopedia of Jewish life and knowledge from the time of Abraham to the contemporary State of Israel.

The second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam covers all aspects of the Islamic World. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states.

A successor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, the third edition is an entirely new work, which maintains the comprehensiveness of its predecessor and adds the new scope that includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and attention to Muslim minorities all over the world.

Consists of Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur by Carl Brockelmann and its supplements. Offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. Entries consist of biographical section and list of the author’s works in manuscript and print, with references to secondary literature.

Includes time lines, maps, biographies, articles and entries from major reference sources such as The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic art and Architecture and Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Special section on Quranic Studies including concordance and verse locator.

Bibliographical History Online is a general history of relations between the faiths. It covers the period from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. Comprises introductory essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims in canon law, and the main body of more than two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost.

Bibliographical history of relations between the two faiths as they are reflected in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world from the year 1500 to 1914, including the ages of European expansion and colonialism.