I. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Historiographical Works

Altenbaugh, Richard J., ed., Historical Dictionary of American Education (1999)

Mary Kupiec Clayton, Elliott J. Gorn & Peter Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Social History, 2 vols. (1993)

Eisenmann, Linda, ed., Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States (1998)

John E. Findling & Kimberly D. Pelle, eds., Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988 (1990)

N. Ray Hiner & Joseph M. Hawes, eds., Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective (1985)

Robert J. Janosik, ed., Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System (1987)

Charles H. Lippy & Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements,3 vols. ( 1988)

Patricia Mooney Melvin, American Community Organizations: An Historical Dictionary (1986)

Randall M. Miller & Paul Combala, American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary (1996)

James S. Olson, ed. Dictionary of the Vietnam War (1988)

Stephen Thernstrom, Ann Horlow, & Oscar Handlin, eds., Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980)

Walter H. Trattner, Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America (1986)

 

• Gywn M. Baylis, ed. Bibliographic Guide to the Two World Wars (1977)
• John D. Buenker & Lorman A. Ratner, Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity (1988)
• Cities and Towns in American History: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations compiled by Arthur P. Young (1989)
• Nathaniel Davis, ed. Afro American Reference: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Resources (1985)
• Directory of Archival and Manuscript Resources in southeastern Pennsylvania (1992)
• Ronald E. Fritze, Brian E. Counts & Louis A. Vyhnanek, Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide (1990)
• Joyce D. Goodfriend, The Published Letters and Diaries of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography (1987)
• Guide to Manuscript Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, rev. ed. (1991)
• Robert Higham, Guide to Sources of United States Military History (1975) Supplements, 1981, 1993
• William Hoglund, ed. Immigrants and Their Children in the United States: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1982 (1986)
• Knorad H. Jarausch & Kenneth A. Hardy, Quantitative Methods for Historians: A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics (1991)
• Journal of Women's History, Guide to Periodical Literature compiled by Gayle H. Fischer (1990)
• Charles H. Lippy, ed. Religious Periodicals in the United States: Academic and Scholarly Journals (1986)
• Timothy Miller, American Communes, 1860-1900: A Bibliography (1990)
• Stephen E. Millett, A Selected Bibliography of American Constitutional History (1975)
• Riley Moffat, Population History of Eastern U.S. Cities and Towns, 1790-1870 (1990)
• William E. Nelson & John P. Reid, The Literature of American legal History (1985)
• Alan Nourie & Barbara Nourie, eds., American Mass Market Magazines (1990)
• Our Family, Our Town: Essays on Family and Local History Sources in the National Archives compiled by Timothy Walch (1987)
• Francis P. Prucha, Handbook for Research in American history: A Guide to Bibliographies and other Reference Works (1987)
• Charles R. Shrader, ed., Reference Guide to United States Military History, 1607-1815 (1991)
• Arthur P. Young, E. Yens Holley & Annette Blum, Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900. A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations (1992)
• Mary Ellen Zuckerman & Elizabeth I Nybakken, eds. American Families: A Research Guide and Historical Handbook

• Jacques Barzun & Henry Graff, The Modern Researcher
• Robert Daniels, Studying History: How and Why (1972)
• Charles Dollar & Richard Jensen, Historians Guide to Statistics (1971)
• Richard Floud, An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians (1973)
• Michael R. Hill, Archival Strategies and Techniques (1993)
• Catherine Marshall & Gretchen B. Rossman, Designing Qualitative Research (1994)
• R. J. Shafer, ed. A Guide to Historical Method (1969)