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Blackwell / NetLibrary.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This 2006 volume provides about 30 signed chronological and thematic essays which survey "the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Companion to American Indian History.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Edited by Philip Deloria, this 2004 volume contains 25 original essays, covering such issues as "contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Edited by Claire Renzetti and Jeffrey Edleson, this two-volume set (2008) contains over 500 signed entries on "different forms of interpersonal violence, their incidence and prevalence, theoretical explanations, public policy initiatives, and prevention and intervention strategies."
Links will be maintained in several locations, in our Web site, including here.
Pew Research Center.
Available online.
"There isn’t one American middle class; there are four. Each is different from the others in its attitudes, outlook and financial circumstance—sometimes in ways that defy traditional stereotypes of the middle class, according to an analysis of a recent national survey."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.