Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Reference

Dictionaries, Encylcopedias, and other Reference Guides are used to check facts and to quickly find general information. Here are some selected reference works available in the Yale Libraries. See also Online Biographical Information and Facts:

The African-American Almanac. 6th ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994-.
SML E185 +A27 (LC) [Latest volume in reference]
Continues the Negro Almanac, 1967-1989.

American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. Eds. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 2 v. SML, Reference E184 A1 +A63448X 1997 Also in DIVINITY

Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index. Ed. Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alexander: Chadwyck-Healey, 1990. 3v.
SML, Reference Z1361 N39 +B52 1990 (LC)
The three volume set indexes a large microfiche set, Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, microform which reproduces approximately 300 American collective biographies.
The microfiche set is available in SML, Reference, Fiche B2653.

Cashmore, Ernest. Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. New York: Routledge, 1996. SML GN496 C37X 1996.

Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery. Eds. Randall Miller, John David Smith. New York: Greenwood, 1988. SML, Reference E441 D53 1988. (LC) 

Dictionary of American Immigration History. Ed. Francesco Cordasco. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990. SML, Reference JV6450 D53 1990. (LC)

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Ed. Charles D. Lowery, John F. Marszalek. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. SML, Reference E185.61 E54X 1992. (LC) 

Encyclopedia of Black America. Ed. W. Augustus Low. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. SML, Reference E185 +E55 (LC) 

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Ed. David Levinson, Melvin Ember. New York: Henry Holt, 1996. SML, Reference GN307 +E52X 1996.

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Eds. Judy Galens, Anna Sheets, Robyn V. Young, Rudolph J. Vecoli. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. SML E184 A1 +G245 1995.

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Ed. Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1980. SML, Reference E184 A1 +H358 (LC)

The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Ed. Junius P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997. 2 v. SML, Reference HT861 +H57X 1997.

A Historical Guide to World Slavery. Eds. Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. SML, Reference HT861 H59X 1998.

Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Ed. Paul Finkelman, Joseph C. Miller. New York: Macmillan, 1998. SML, Reference HT861 +M24X 1998.

Mimms, Kenneth A. and Leon T. Ross. African American Almanac: Day-by-Day Black History. Jefferson: McFarland, 1997. SML E185 R815X 1997.

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