Use reference books to browse for project ideas and to get started on your research. Reference books include dictionaries, encyclopedias, and bibliographies
Use the bibliographies at the end of articles/essays in encyclopedias or at the end of books to locate more material on your topic
Reference books are located on the 2nd floor of the library and Religious Reference Books are on 3rd floor in the Stanley Wing.
Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000 by 
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas by 
Modern Germany by 
The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature by 
Reader's Guide to British History by 
The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery by Brown, Gregory. "Chapter Three: The People against the Privileged: Social Differences and Personal Identities," in Cultures in Conflict: The French Revolution (Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 41-72. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=11679&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=1&ppid=pp_32
Dean, Lisa. "Flemish Vs Netherlandish: A Discourse of Nationalism." Renaissance Quarterly 51, No. 1(Spring 1998): 1-33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2901661
Denes, Ivan Zoltan. "The Value Systems of Liberals and Conservatives in Hungary, 1830-1848." The Historical Journey 36, No. 4 (Dec. 1993). 825-850. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2640034
Mommsen, Wolfgang J. "Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Politics" Journal of Contemporary History 20, No. 2/3 (May/Jun 1990), 289-316.www.jstor.org/stable/260734/
Seacombe, Wally. "Patriarchy Stabilized: The Construction of the Male Breadwinner Norm in Nineteenth Century Britain." Social History 11, no. 1(1986): 53-76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4285488
Viaene, Vencent. "King Leopold's Imperialism and the Origins of the Belgian Colonial Party, 1860-1905." The Journal of Modern History 80, No. 4 (December 2008), 741-790. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/591110 .