21H.931 Seminar in Historical Methods

Finding Background Information on Your Topic

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.

• Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, 2nd ed, edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. REF DT14.A37435 2005
• The American Heritage encyclopedia of American history, edited by John Mack Faragher. New York: H. Holt, 1998. REF E174.A535 1998
• Encyclopedia of Asian history, edited by Ainslie T. Embree, et al. New York, NY: Scribner, 1988. REF DS31.E53 1988
• The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, ed. by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. REF E184.S75.O97 2005