Defining Gender

Coverage: 1410-1917

Primary source material from British archives focusing on gender, leisure, and consumer culture. Thematic areas within the collection are Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body.


Deutsche Biographie

Electronic versions of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) and the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Searchable by name, birth/death dates, religion, occupation, and author of article.  The ADB includes people from early times to the end of the 19th century.   Skillman has the complete 56-volume print version of the ADB ( CT1053 .A5 in Storage). The NDB includes people who died between 1815 and 1950.


Dictionary of African Biography

Biographical information on the men and women who shaped Africa's history from earliest times to the present.


Dictionary of Art Historians

Biographical and methodological information about major art historians of Western art history, from Duke University.


Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography

Information on the lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically significant. Covers the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.


Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

Dictionary containing entries on food, nutrition, diet, and health.


Dictionary of Irish Biography

Biographical dictionary covering the "lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland."


Dictionary of Psychology

Dictionary with brief definitions of psychological terms. From Oxford University Press.


Dictionnaire de la langue française du seizième siècle

Online edition of Huguet's dictionary of Renaissance French.


Dictionnaire des femmes de l'ancienne France

A biographical dictionary of women who lived in France or had an important connection to the French language from the 5th through the 18th century (up to women born in 1780). Although world-famous women are represented, the dictionary's main value is for its entries of women little-known outside their regions or fields of activity. There are two types of entries ("notices"): the "notices modernes" written by contemporary scholars; and the "notices anciennes", which are reproduced from biographical works published since the 16th century. The editors warn that the information from these older published works is not always reliable. Finding entries by browsing is more efficient than searching names directly.