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Library Catalog
Catalog of materials in The University Libraries.WorldCat
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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full text articles from numerous scholarly encylopediasOxford Reference
Full text from scholarly subject dictionariesDictionary of Afro-American Slavery. 1997
location: ref E441 .D53Dictionary of American History. 2003. 10 vols.
location: ref E174 .D52Black Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia. 2 vols. 2005
location: ref E185.86 B542Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. 8 vols. 2001
location: ref E169 .E624Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. 1993.
location: ref HN57 .E58Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. 3 vols. 2001
location: ref 169.1 E626The Harvard Guide to African American History. 2001
location: ref E185.H326Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. 5 vols. 1996.
location: ref E185 .E54Encyclopedia of Southern History. 1979.
location: ref F207.7 .E52
Biographies
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Dictionary of American Negro Biography
Location: ref E185.96 D53Notable Black American Women. 2 vols. + supplement. 1992.
location: ref E185.96 N68Notable Black American Men
Location: ref E185.86 .N68
Primary Sources
Websites
Documenting the American South
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Additional Sources