One of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data—remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with the functionality of the twenty-first century.
Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies provides "bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite, and annotate scholarship on key areas of African American Studies—culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics (Oxford University Press)."
This digital volume includes essays based on the latest, most persuasive research and incorporates visual and sound materials and links to original sources (Oxford University Press).
Biographical treatments for significant American figures. An "American" is loosely defined as someone whose significant actions occurred during his or her residence within what is now the United States or whose life or career directly influenced the course of American history. The only invariant rule is that all subjects must have died prior to 1996. Online version updated quarterly with new articles and illustrations.
Atlantic history is a fast developing field of historical inquiry that operates upon new assumptions about how to understand the remarkable nature of interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century. Oxford Bibliographies is the best means to access this information (Oxford University Press).
Indexes current and retrospective reference sources, such as biographical dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, and indexes. Contains citations to over 13 million biographical sketches from multiple reference works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
"Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (DLB) provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. This literature resource includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series (Gale)."
DLB outlines the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarizes the critical response to their work. In addition, each DLB entry contains: personal information (birth/death dates, nationality/ethnicity, principal genres, awards, family history, and some entries include an author portrait), principal Works (a list of the author's most important writings, further Readings about the author (a list of additional writings,published interviews, biographies, and a bibliography of writings about the author).
The current GVRL collection contains dictionaries and encyclopedias covering these areas: Arts, Biography, Business, Environment, General Reference, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.
"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande (Oxford University Press)."
Premium Collection contains over 200 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. Includes added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.