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     Full text books for many topics. These titles may also be found in the BGSU Libraries Catalog.


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     Full text reference books from Oxford University Press. It includes such titles as The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.



Reference Books Recently Added to the Collection

The books listed below were recently added to the Jerome Library Reference Collection. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of American Culture Studies, these books are just a sample of the reference books that may be useful for your research. Those added to this list in the latest update to this page are marked with new resource
A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts, by Liz Sonneborn
REF PN 2286.8 .S66 2002

African American Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Websites on Black Culture and History, by Abdul Alkalimat   new resource
REF E 185 .M36 2004

African American Literature: Overview and Bibliography, ed. by Paul Q. Tilden   new resource
REF PS 153 .N5 A37 2003

African American Lives, ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham   new resource
REF E 185.96 .A446 2004

African American Social Leaders and Activists, by Jack Rummel
REF E 185.96 .R88 2003

African-American Writers, by Philip Bader   new resource
REF PS 153 .N5 B214 2004

The African American Years, by Gabriel Burns Stepto
REF E 185 .S797 2003

African Americans in the Performing Arts, by Steven Otfinoski
REF PN 2286 .O88 2003

American Indian History, ed. by Carole A. Barrett
REF E 77 .A496 2003 v.1-2

American Men: Who They Are & How They Live, by the New Strategist editors
REF HQ 1090.3 .A457 2002

American Novelists Since World War II, Seventh Series, ed. by James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 278)
REF PS 221 .D5x v. 278

American Philosophers Before 1950, ed. by Philip B. Dematteis and Leemon B. McHenry (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.270)
REF PS 221 .D5x v. 270

American Philosophers 1950-2000, ed. by Philip B. Dematteis and Leemon B. McHenry (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.279)
REF PS 221 .D5x v. 279

American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960, ed. by Philip Furia (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 265)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.265

Antebellum Writers in New York, Second Series, ed. by Kent Ljungquist. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 250)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.250

Asian American Almanac, ed. by Irene Natividad and Susan B. Gall   new resource
REF E 184 .O6 A824 2004

Asian American Biography, ed. by Helen Zia and Susan B. Gall   new resource
REF E 184 .O6 A 825 2004 v.1-2

Asian American Chronology, ed. by Maura Malone and Susan B. Gall   new resource
REF E 184 .O6 A8256 2004

Asian American Voices, ed. by Deborah Gillan Straub   new resource
REF E 184 .A75 A842 2004

Black Entertainers in African American Newspaper Articles, by Charlene B. Regester
REF PN 2286 .R433 2002 v.1

The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times, ed. by Daniel S. Burt   new resource
REF PS 94 .C48 2004

A Chronology of American Musical Theater, by Richard C. Norton
REF ML 1711.8 N3 N67 2002 v.1-3

Cold War America, 1946 to 1990, by Ross Gregory
REF E 741 .G76 2003

The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War, by David L. Anderson
REF DS 557.5 .A54 2002

Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980, by Moira Davison Reynolds
REF NC 1426 .R44 2003

A Companion to 20th-Century America, ed. by Stephen J. Whitfield   new resource
REF E 178.6 .C65 2004

Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide, ed. by Emmanuel S. Nelson
REF PS 325 .C656 2003

Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon: A Documentary Volume, ed. by Richard Layman
REF PS 221 .D5x v.280

Day by Day: The Nineties, by Smita Avasthi   new resource
REF D 856 .A93 2003 v.1-2

Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulaty of the Twentieth Century, by Rosemarie Ostler
REF PE 2838 .O88 2003

An Encyclopedia of African American Christian Heritage, by Marvin A. McMickle
REF BR 563 .N4 M353 2002

Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood, by James Robert Parish
REF PN 1995.9 .M56 M85 2003

Encyclopedia of 20th Centiury American Television, by Ron Lackmann
REF PN 1992.18 .L33 2003

Encyclopedia of Women in American History
REF HQ 1410 .E53 2002 v.1-3

Encyclopedia of Women in the American West, ed. by Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington
REF HQ 1438 .W45 E53 2003

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night: A Documentary Volume, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli and George Parker Anderson(Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 273)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.273

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama, ed. by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig
REF PS 330 .F33 2004

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek   new resource
REF E 185.61 .E54 2003 v.1-2

Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture, ed. by M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall
REF E 169.1 .H2643 2002 v.1-4

Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law, ed. by Gregg Lee Carter
REF HV 7436 .G8783 2002 v.1-2

Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States, ed. by Sonia G. Benson
REF E 184 .S75 H557 2003

John Dos Passo's U.S.A.: A Documentary Volume, ed. by Donald Pizer (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 274)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.274

A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia, by Hans Ostrom
REF PS 3515 .U274 Z459 2002

Lifetimes: The Great War to the Stock Market Crash: American History Through Biography and Primary Documents, ed. by Neil A. Hamilton
REF E 766 .L48 2002

Latino and Latina Writers, ed. by Alan West-Duran   new resource
REF PS 153 .H56 L39 2004 v.1-2

LGBT, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, ed. by Marc Stein   new resource
REF HQ 76.3 .U5 E53 2004 v.1-3

The Malcolm X Encyclopedia, ed. by Robert L. Jenkins and Mfanya Donald Tryman
REF BP 223 .Z8 L57626 2002

The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia, by Matt S. Meier and Margo Gutierrez   new resource
REF E 184 .M5 M4535 2003

Minority Rights in America, by Alan Axelrod
REF JC 599 .U5 A93 2002

Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide, ed. by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp   new resource
REF PN 452 .M88 2004

Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Documentary Volume, ed. by Benjamin Franklin V. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 269)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.269

Native Americans, ed. by Donald A. Grinde, Jr.
REF E 93 .N32 2002

North American Muslim Resource Guide: Muslim Community Life in the United States and Canada, by Mohamed Nimer
REF BP 67 .A1 N57 2002

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by Jay Parini
REF PS 21 .E537 2004 v.1-4

Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787, by Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood   new resource
REF DT 30 .A35 2003

Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook, by David B. Mustard
REF E 185 .M95 2003

Radio Network Prime Time Programming, 1926-1967, by Mitchell E. Shapiro
REF PN 1991.3 .U6 S437 2002

Raymond Chandler: A Documentary Volume, ed. by Robert Moss. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 253)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.253

Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States, by Neil A. Hamilton
REF HN 90 .R3 H354 2002

Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America, 1900-2000, by Carla Blank and the Before Columbus Foundation
REF E 741 .R237 2003

The Routledge Atlas of American History, by Martin Gilbert
REF G 1201 .S1 G53 2003

The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, ed. by Kenneth T. Jackson et al.
REF E 176 .D5632 v.1-4

Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More than 1,000 Flops, by Wesley Hyatt
REF PN 1992.3 .U5 H95 2003

Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Third Series, ed. by Christopher J. Wheatley (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 249)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.249

Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Fourth Series, ed. by Christopher J. Wheatley (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 266)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.266

Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: Prose, ed. by Roger Thompson and J. Scott Bryson (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 275)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.275

Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, Third Series, ed. by Richard H. Cracroft (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 256)
REF PS 221 .D5x v.256

U X L Hispanic American Almanac, ed. by Sonia G. Benson et al.   new resource
REF E 184 .S75 H556 2003

UXL Hispanic American Biography, ed. by Sonia G. Benson et al.   new resource
REF E 184 .S75 U94 2003

UXL Hispanic American Chronology, ed. by Sonia G. Benson et al.   new resource
REF E 184 .S75 U95 2002

UXL Hispanic American Voices, ed. by Sonia G. Benson and Deborah Gillan Straub   new resource
REF E 184 .S75 H564 2003

Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, by Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik   new resource
REF PN 1992.5 .U5 C37 2003

Women Artists of the American West, ed. by Susan R. Ressler
REF N 8354 .W657 2003

Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide, ed. by Denise D. Knight   new resource
REF PS 201 .W75 2003

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