History

This 11-volume encyclopedia includes over 1,000 entries covering everything from prehistoric times to modern day. Full-color maps are included.

This 7-volume encyclopedia includes over 300 articles on topics ranging from Stalin to the Greek War of Independence. The final volume of this set includes over 100 primary documents.

This 4-volume set offers students and researchers in-depth, analytical essays illuminating famous primary source documents from U.S. and world history.

This large volume contains over 1,400 entries on historical figures, important events, and the military and cultural history of the United States.

Contains entries providing clear and authoritative coverage of the most significant people, ideas and events of world history.

Brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present.

Covers a wide spectrum of American history and culture, including political events, military history, sports, arts, entertainment, landmark legislation, and business. The book's concise entries, arranged from A to Z, bring the United States' past into sharp focus while also offering just plain useful facts about the well known and not so well known.

A chronology of world history through to the present.

The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combining hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles, the encyclopedia is informative, engaging, and a pleasure to read.