Online encyclopedia with well-researched articles on all aspects of communications studies...

"Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference...

Covers "the pursuit of leisure in the United States, from Colonial to modern times, presented through 271 alphabetically arranged entries...

"Presents 500 entries describing Americans who defined the decade, including politicians, athletes, entertainers, and artists, among many others...

Decade-by-decade coverage of American social history during the 20th century...

Contains entries on "cowboy history, culture, and myth for both North and South America...

Contains hundreds of entries on human encounters with otherworldly beings, personalities, and events...

Contains 145 entries covering major Western figures, events, and places as they have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture...

Contains nearly 300 entries on Satan depicted throughout traditional theology, mythology, art and literature, and popular culture...

Contains over 100 entries about pseudoscientific subjects like the Bermuda Triangle, handwriting analysis, and the health hazards of electromagnetic fields and cell phones, along with 35 case studies and investigations from The Skeptic magazine about topics ranging from police psychics and recovered memory therapy to Atlantis and witchcraft...

Contains entries on the UFO phenomenon, as reflected in religious beliefs and legends, movies and TV shows, from advertising and celebrities to Internet sites and photo ops...