LSU Libraries - Reference Tools Tutorial

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Introduction
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Almanacs
Bibliographies
Biographical Dictionaries
Concordances
Directories
Chronologies
Atlases and Gazetteers
Handbooks and Manuals
Statistics

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Chronologies

CHRONOLOGIES (also called "Timelines" or "Yearbooks") are a chronological view of a specific time period. They tell you what happened day by day, or month by month, or year by year, or decade by decade, etc.

There are two general chronologies that are very popular:

Facts on File (Reference: D410 F3) gives weekly newspaper headlines of major world events

Keesing's Record of World Events (Reference Stacks: D410 K4) gives weekly newspaper headlines of major world events

There are also many subject-focused chronologies:

To find chronologies in the library catalog, do a keyword search combining a broad subject with the word chronology.
This search works best if you truncate the word chronolog$

Example:science and chronolog$

There are also several timelines available on the web such as:

Ancient Rome Timeline

The History Place Civil War Timeline

IPL Slavery and Religion in America: Time Line

Chronology of the History of Computing

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