Reference Sources
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Provides full access to hundreds of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical information, images, bibliographies, and links to journal articles, books, and online sources. - Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
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Search across all of Carleton's online reference sources from Oxford University Press, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and quotations. - Britannica Online Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
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Includes the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.
The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America by Call Number: Reference Books (E188 .E63 1990)ISBN: 0816017441Publication Date: 1988-12-01More information in Catalyst
Spanning the entire colonial period - from the earliest settlements of the 16th century to the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which concluded the American Revolution - this reference work contains 1500 alphabetical entries. The ideas, events, people and developments which defined the birth of the United States have been brought together in a volume which emphasizes key discoveries, battles and trends which shaped the era.
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An authoritative full text collection of the history of scholarship in several different academic subjects. Includes over 260 volumes published since 1960 by Cambridge University Press. Volumes of interest might include: World History of Slavery, History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, History of Religions in America, or others. - Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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This is a key starting place for research in several different fields, providing bibliographies on current scholarship on topics from the social sciences and humanities.
