History 

Boia, Lucian, ed.  Great Historians of the Modern Age:  An International Dictionary.  New York:  Greenwood Press, 1991.
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Boyd, Kelly.  Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing.  2 vols.  Chicag  Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. 
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Cannon, John, ed.  The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians.  New York:  Blackwell, 1988.
MSEL GEN REF D14 .B581 1988

Ritter, Harry.  Dictionary of Concepts in History.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1986.
MSEL GEN REF D13 .R58 1986

Scanlon, Jennifer and Sharon Cosner.  American Women Historians, 1700s-1900s:  A Biographical Dictionary.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1996.
MSEL GEN REF E 175.45 .S27 1996.

Spongberg, Mary, Ann Curthoys, and Barbara Caine, eds.  Companion to Women's Historical Writing.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Wilson, Clyde N., ed.  American Historians, 1607-1865.  Dictionary of Literary Biography 30.  Detroit:  Gale Research Co., 1984.
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---.  American Historians, 1866-1912.  Dictionary of Literary Biography 47.  Detroit:  Gale Research Co., 1986.
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---.  Twentieth Century American Historians.  Dictionary of Literary Biography 17.  Detroit:  Gale Research Co., 1983.
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Woolf, D.R., ed.  A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing.  2 vols.  New York:  Garland Publishing, 1998.
MSEL GEN REF D13 .G47 1998