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History: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Research Guides

Overview

The focus here is online dictionaries and encyclopedias (reference sources)
A few key works may still be available in print, but these tend to be older.

Oxford Reference online (ORO)

A collection of academic sources, useful for defining key terms and getting short topic overviews.

Browse the history titles or search across the complete ORO corpus for insights from a range of related disciplines.