"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...

Contains more than 5,000 entries on all aspects of American history...

Examines the issues of civil liberties and their relevance to major current events while providing a historical context and a philosophical discussion of the evolution of civil liberties...

"Encompasses nearly two decades of American history, beginning with the farm crisis of the mid-1920s, through the 1929 stock market crash, the gradual recovery during the 1930s with Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal and World War II...

"Presents in-depth profiles of each American president and his administration...

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

Contains "hundreds of alphabetically organized entries on African history, nations, and peoples plus African-influenced aspects of life in the Americas...

Contains about 250 entries covering important historical figures; key battles, legislation, and rulings; honors awarded; regiments, formations, and squadrons; and significant places...

Contains 500 entries on the production and use of the principal alcoholic beverages, cultural representations, temperance movements, research, treatment, and forms of regulation and prohibition in the United States and around the world...

Contains "approximately 220 articles, organized thematically for easy browsability, provide a wealth of reference and historical information on the battlefield and homefront experience and the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the North and South during the War...

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

Includes entries on economic terms and American economists as well as significant acts of Congress and legal decisions that have influenced the economy in the United States...

"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 entries covering the interrelationship of Great Britain and the Americas from the time of the Vikings to the present...

Contains entries on people, events, places, political parties, treaties and agreements, the origins of the conflict, and the involvement of the superpowers, China, and the United Nations...

Contains over 300 entries on various events, ideas, and persons, as well as crucial supporting and refuting evidence, and competing explanations for the origins, history, and popularity of this mode of political thought...

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

Includes "a timeline of important events, brief biographies of famous African-Americans, articles on Events and Institutions and Eras in Black History...

Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: 773 biographical sketches of African American religious leaders, ranging from a paragraph to several pages 341 entries on African American denominations and religious organizations (including white churches with significant black memberships and educational institutions) Topical articles on important aspects of African American religious life (e...

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...

"Records and analyzes the American Jewish experience from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century to the present, considering American Jews both as a religious and an ethnic group...

Contains around 450 articles that cover emancipation and abolition by highlighting individuals, places, events, legislation, and concepts to explain the vagaries of the slave experience at specific times and locations, with emphasis on the 18th and 19th centuries...

Contains 140 articles which "cover seven major elements of religious freedom: key concepts, US history, world history, world religions, major issues, minority groups and their rights, and key documents...

Contains "alphabetically arranged entries [which] include biographies as well as discussions of campaigns and strategy; battles, skirmishes, and naval actions; weaponry; political issues and events; and how the European powers participated in the conflict...

Contains "more than nine hundred articles that together reveal the full richness of this complex event...

his work examines the military, economic, diplomatic, and political evolution of the conflict as well as its impact on the different regions and cultures of the world...

Contains articles dealing with the competition between the West and the Soviet Union beginning at the end of World War II...

Contains entries covering the period from World War II and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991...

Contains entries which provide an overview of key events, and an extensive bibliography of titles in both English and Spanish guides readers in further explorations...

Covers the "formative years of the United States, starting just prior to the American Revolution and ending with the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829...