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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2003
Gr 9-Up This impressive, authoritative reference work covers topics spanning a period from approximately 11,000 B.C.E. through December 2001. Each volume has a separate editor (there is a general editor for the set) and most of the essays are signed. The volumes are organized chronologically, but the entries within each volume are alphabetical. Each book begins with a contents list, and there are copious see and cross-references. Essays of varying length cover events; "major categories of the American experience" (education, urbanization, etc.); people, places, concepts, and more. At the end of each ent...Log In or Sign Up to Read More