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Polling the Nations Database of public opinion polls

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We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

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Credo Reference

Gale Virtual Reference Library -- this resource includes many reference books, some of which are also available in print. Here's a sampling:

• American Decades and American Decades Primary Sources (2001; 2004)
• Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed. (2003)
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2nd. ed. (2002)
• Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (2004)
• Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America (2004)
• Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (2006)
• Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery and America (2008)

A Sampling of Print Encyclopedias

Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. (Call #DT14.A37435 2005, DML; DML Ref)

Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, editors. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001. (Call #E169.1.E624 2001, DML Ref)

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Paul Finkelman, editor in chief. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001. (Call #E169.1.E626 2001, DML Ref)

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Stanley I. Kutler, editor in chief. 4 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. (Call #E740.7.E53 1996, DML Ref)

The Jim Crow Encyclopedia. Nikki L.M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford, editors. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. (Call # E185.61.J53 2008, DML)  

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonzalez. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (Call #E184.S75O97 2005. DML Ref)

A Sampling of Print Bibliographies, Handbooks, and Guides

The American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature. New York: Oxford, 1995. 2 vols. (Call # Z6201.A55 1995; Doheny and VKC Ref; Leavey Lower Commons)

American Literary Magazines: The Twentieth Century. Chielens, Edward E. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992. (Call #Z1231.P45A44 1992. Grand Depository)

The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall, eds. 4 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. (Call #E169.1 H2643 2002, DML)

Handbook for Research in American History: A Guide to Bibliographies and other Reference Works. 2nd ed., rev. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. (Call# Z1236.P78 1994, DML)

Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide. 2nd. ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. (Call #Z6201.F72 2004; DML)

United States History: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources. Perrault, Anna H. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2003. (Call #Z1236.P45 2003, DML Ref)