Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and handbooks. Entries in such sources tend to be rather short and they are meant to help you get started with research on a new topic.
Atlas of the Civil War
CALL NUMBER: Ref. G1201 .S5 A85 1994
Atlas of the Medieval World
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D117 .M35 2004
Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
CALL NUMBER: Ref. G1033 .H5713 2010
Historical Atlas of Central Europe
CALL NUMBER: Ref. G1881.S1 M32 2002
Historical Atlas of the United States
CALL NUMBER: Ref. G1201 .S1 C28 2003
The Times Atlas of European History
CALL NUMBER: Ref. G1797 .21 .S1 T5 1994
Dictionary of American Biography
CALL NUMBER: Ref. E176 .D56 vol. 1-22
Dictionary of American History
CALL NUMBER: Ref. E174 .D52 2003 vol. 1-10
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D114 .D5 1982 vol. 1-13
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
CALL NUMBER: Ref. DA28 .O95 2004 vol. 1-60
The American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience
CALL NUMBER: Ref. E174.5 .G753 2003 vol. 1-2
Brill's New Pauly Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
Antiquity series: Ref. DE5 .N3513 2002 vol. 1-15
Classical Tradition series: Ref. DE5 .N3513 2007 vol. 1-5
The Cambridge Ancient History
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D57 .C252 vol. 1-14
Chronology of World History
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D11 .M39 1999 vol. 1-4
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2d ed., 2000)
CALL NUMBER: Ref. KF4548 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of American History
CALL NUMBER: Ref. E174 .E53 2003 vol. 1-11
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D14 .E53 1999 vol. 1-2
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world (2004)
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
CALL NUMBER: Ref. CB351 .D5413 2000 vol. 1-2
Encyclopedia of World Cultures
CALL NUMBER: Ref. GN307 .E53 1991
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2d ed., 2000)
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (1999)
The New Cambridge Medieval History
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D117 .N48 1995 vol. 1-7
The New Cambridge Modern History
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D208 .N4 vol. 1-14
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
CALL NUMBER: Ref. D205 .O94 2008 vol. 1-8