HIST 4960: Majors Seminar: Shipwrecks: Reference

Biographical essays profiling people from all periods of American history and culture. Bibliographic information, some illustrations, and online resources are included.

Index of reference sources containing biographies.

Profiles of past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights discussing their lives and careers and critical response to their works. Includes the Documentary Series, Main Series, and Yearbook.

Lives and achievements of the most distinguished men and women from almost every country in the world. Career, contact and other biographical details.

Authoritative reference work on the subject of American law

Entries on major Supreme Court cases written by eminent legal scholars. Each entry provides the United States Reports citation, the date the case was argued and decided, the vote of the Justices, who wrote the opinion for the Court, who concurred, who dissented, an informative account of the particulars of the case, the legal and social background, the reasoning behind the Courts decision, and the impact on American society.

Federal, state, and international statistical, economic, demographic, and geographic information. National income and production statistics, retail and wholesale trade data, interest rates, economic indicators, and social and demographic statistics, plus data on energy, environmental protection, agriculture, fisheries, crime, etc.