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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 
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 
REF E 185 .M36 2004
African American Literature: Overview and Bibliography, ed. by Paul Q. Tilden 
REF PS 153 .N5 A37 2003
African American Lives, ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 
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 
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 
REF E 184 .O6 A824 2004
Asian American Biography, ed. by Helen Zia and Susan B. Gall 
REF E 184 .O6 A 825 2004 v.1-2
Asian American Chronology, ed. by Maura Malone and Susan B. Gall 
REF E 184 .O6 A8256 2004
Asian American Voices, ed. by Deborah Gillan Straub 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
REF PS 153 .H56 L39 2004 v.1-2
LGBT, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, ed. by Marc Stein 
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 
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 
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 
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. 
REF E 184 .S75 H556 2003
UXL Hispanic American Biography, ed. by Sonia G. Benson et al. 
REF E 184 .S75 U94 2003
UXL Hispanic American Chronology, ed. by Sonia G. Benson et al. 
REF E 184 .S75 U95 2002
UXL Hispanic American Voices, ed. by Sonia G. Benson and Deborah Gillan Straub 
REF E 184 .S75 H564 2003
Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, by Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik 
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 
REF PS 201 .W75 2003
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