Overview of world history
Use this guide to perform background research to refine a research topic, confirm terminology, and get a general understanding before finding books and articles to support a research project.
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History encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
History Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across 32 subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 100,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
Miitary History encyclopedias from Oxford Refernce Online
Military History encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across six subject encyclopedias and dictionaries, including more than 8,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
History in Dispute Vols. 1-21 from Gale Virtual Reference Library
History in Dispute Vols. 1-21 from Gale Virtual Reference Library
History in Dispute provides full-text essays in HTML and PDF on a thematic, era, or subject-specific focus Features include excerpts from primary source documents to illuminate the viewpoints presented with each entry; photographs and drawings of individuals, sites, objects or documents pertinent to the event or topic; and a chronological list of events.
Gale Biography in Context
Gale Biography in Context
Biography in Context provides access to over 600,000 biographies in HTML sourced from reference works, news reports, magazines and academic journals. It provides links to related websites, images, audio, and video clips.
Daily Life Through History from Greenwood
Daily Life Through History from Greenwood
Daily Life Through History provides full-text encyclopedic articles and primary documents in HTML on the Ancient Worlds and Mesoamerica, from Mesopotamia to Victorian England. Includes color and black-and-white images, illustrations, and maps, chronologies, bibliographies, glossaries, and lesson plans for teachers.
Encyclopedia of Russian History from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Encyclopedia of Russian History from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Encyclopedia of Russian History provides full-text reference essays in HTML and PDF on the agriculture, architecture, economic, education, social science, arts, humanities, and literature from Russian history.
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