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Encyclopedias are great for:

  • choosing a topic
  • quick self-education
  • perspective on a topic
  • variant spellings, vocabulary, terminology
  • bibliography

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Cambridge Histories Online

Cambridge Histories Online

Excellent resource. Full text. Chapters as pdfs. Extremely high quality essays with rich footnotes and bibliography.

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Peer reviewed annotated sources in a variety of disciplines:

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO)

Encyclopedias: Europe, etc

Antiquity (Olin Reference call numbers DE)

Middle Ages

Europe (Olin Reference call numbers D-DF)

Asia (Kroch Asia Reference)

Encyclopedias: United States

United States (Olin Reference call numbers E-F)

Biography

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