Contains over "1,000 alphabetically arranged entries covering the period's most significant personalities and meaningful developments in the arts, religion, politics, exploration, and warfare...

"Covers major American conflicts from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the home front...

Contains more than 400 articles (along with maps, pictures and photographs) on the colonial empire of Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and the United States from the voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal to the present...

"This encyclopedia has over one hundred and fifty biographical entries on specific women artists, writers, musicians, patrons, religious leaders, and medical practitioners...

Covers "all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe...

Covers "the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature...

Contains biographical and topical entries on Puritanism in Britain and the United States in the 16th and 17th centuries...

Collection thematic essays on various aspects of the Protestant Reformation...