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Humanities Subject Guide

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