Research Guides: European History: Starting Points

Starting points

Starting your research? Get your facts in line by checking out articles from within subject encyclopedias and handbooks, and then check out Albert, the Library catalog, to find books!

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Search by topic.
Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Search for research articles for any era in European history. GVRL includes research entries in such titles as: Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000, and Europe 1789-1914.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Includes titles such as Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance.

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. (Ref 940.2 G865) 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1999.

Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. (Ref 943.086 G914) New York: Da Capo, 1997.

Encyclopedia of World War II. (Ref 940.53 T798) 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2005.

Europeana - "Anyone in the world can now access over 14 million digitised books, maps, photographs, paintings, film and music clips from cultural institutions across Europe through Europe's digital library Europeana." Also includes The European Library, which is a collection of 48 national libraries and offers Historic Newspapers. Some items are not available for free.