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Reference Material:
Reference sources (like encyclopedias and dictionaries) may be useful for finding facts and background
information and to give you context for your reading and writing. For additional resources useful to your specific topic, use Barton, or get help from MIT librarians.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Encyclopaedia Britannica (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/britannica/
Oxford
Reference Online (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/oxfordref
Biography Resource Center and The Complete Marquis Who's Who (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/brc
Other reference resources can be found in the Libraries' Virtual Reference Collection
http://libraries.mit.edu/help/virtualref.html
SELECTED PRINT RESOURCES
All materials listed are available in the MIT Humanities Library. Use Barton or WorldCat to identify additional resources.
- American immigrant cultures : builders of a nation / edited by David Levinson, Melvin Ember. New York : Simon & Schuster Macmillan, c1997. REF E184.A1.A63448. v.1-2
- The Asian American Almanac: A Reference Work on Asians in the United States. Detroit: Gale Research Inc, 1995. REF E184.O6.A824 1995.
- Atlas of American History. Second revised edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. REF G1201.S1.A8 1984.
- Dictionary of Asian American History. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. REF E184.O6.D53 1984
- Distinguished Asian Americans : a biographical dictionary / edited by Hyung-chan Kim ; contributing editors, Dorothy Cordova ... [et al.]. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999. REF E184.O6.D57 1999.
- Encyclopedia of Asian History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. REF DS31.E53 1988
- Encyclopedia of Japanese American History : an A-Z reference from 1868 to the present / Brian Niiya. New York : Facts on File. 2001. REF E184.J3.E53 2001.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1995. REF E184.A1.G14 1995
- Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge,
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