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 entries that cover the major clashes between American Indian tribes and Euro-American settlers from the arrival of Columbus to the Battle of Wounded Knee, centered mainly within the geographical area that now comprises the contiguous United States...

"Covering the 'long' Enlightenment, from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815, these 700 articles by leading scholars range from discussions of mercantilism and democracy to the battlefield to the dissemination of ideas in salons and coffeehouses...

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...

Contains lengthy discussions, arranged in chronological orders, of wars in American history from 1621 to the present, including the War on Terrorism...

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