Articles & Databases : Encyclopedias
Profiles milestones and movements in literature, music, religion, and the arts from specific periods. Includes architecture and design, dance, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theater, and visual arts.
Access Science
An online encyclopedia of science and technology.
A digital library of art images and descriptive information for students and instructors.
Britannica Online Academic Edition
An online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica and the Andes Mountains region.
Surveys clothing and body adornment, including the origins of clothing, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress. Presents information on representative costumes from a wide variety of historical eras.
Explores the biological basis for addiction, recent enhancements in diagnosis and treatment and new frontiers in addiction studies.
Covers food and its place in human culture and society, including agronomy, food preparation, distribution and storage, holidays and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines.
Covers cultural and ethno-religious groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, languages, historical background and settlement patterns.
An encyclopedia of 20th-century events and social history, decade by decade.
