Humanities
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A list of useful encyclopedias, dictionaries, anthologies, and other reference works in the humanities.
Basic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
The Social Science Encyclopedia
REF.H41.S631996
Columbia Encyclopedia
REF.AG5.V7251993
The Encyclopedia Americana
Available Online at http://www.gl.iit.edu
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica.
REF.AE5.E3631998 v.1-30
Encyclopedia of Social History
REF.HN28.E531994
Encyclopedia of American Social History
REF.HN57.E581993
Special Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
REF.PN41.B41991
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
REF.CB5.D52
Encyclopedia of American History. 6th ed.
REF.E174.5.E521982
The Encyclopedia of Military History; from 3500 B.C. to the Present Day
R.355.0009D945
Encyclopedia of Sociology
REF.HM17.E51992
An Encyclopedia of World History... 4th ed.
R.903L276ED.4
Eureka! An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer
REF.T15.D31974
The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
REF.TR9.F61993
Illinois Biographical Dictionary
REF.CT232.I451993
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
REF.PN1021.N391993
Research Guides to the Humanities, Social Sciences Sciences and Technology
REF.Z1002.S131986
Steinberg's Dictionary of British History. 2nd ed.
R.942.003S819
Wesler, Allan. Images Encyclopedia Journey into the Language of Life
REF.BF1999.W451990
A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Heads of States and Governments
REF.D412.L461994
