LibGuides: Languages and Cultures: Cultures

History and Culture

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
Covers history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, teen life, and more, for cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa.

Gale Cengage, 2009

Library of Congress: World History & Cultures
These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories: General World Regions (history), Africa & the Middle East, The Americas (including Hispanic Reading Room Webcasts), Asia & the Pacific, and Europe (including history and Treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de France).
WESS Web
Includes links to French, German, Italian, and Classics (e.g. Latin) Studies pages which provide access to scholarly resources including dictionaries, directories, maps, city guides, law, literature, performing arts, and history. Also includes links to selected newspaper and news services; the Europeana database of digital and multimedia items; and more. Web site of the Western European Studies Section of the American Library Association's Association of College and Research Libraries.
German Studies Web
The WESS Web German Studies page provides access to scholarly resources in German studies: dictionaries, directories, maps, city guides, German law, literature, performing arts, history, and more. This site is an initiative of the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
French Studies Web
The WESS Web French Studies page provides access to scholarly resources in French studies: dictionaries, directories, maps, newspapers and news sources, literature, history, culture, politics and government, and more. This site is an initiative of the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Italian Studies Web
The WESS Web Italian Studies page provides access to scholarly resources in Italian studies: dictionaries, directories, news media, cinema, literature, history, society culture, politics and government, and more. This site is an initiative of the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Classics Studies Web
The WESS Web Classics Studies Studies page provides access to scholarly resources in Classics (Greek and Roman/Latin) Studies with links to electronic texts, Latin language learning tools, the Perseus Project multimedia library, the Voice of the Shuttle Classics Page with links to Art & Archaeology, History and Culture, Mythology, Philosophy, Language and Literature resources, and more. This site is an initiative of the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Cuisine

Andruss Library has received donations of hundreds of cookbooks for our collection.

Works on national or ethnic cuisines and styles of cooking are entered under Cooking, [national or ethnic group] (examples: Cooking, French or Cooking, Chinese). These headings may be further subdivided to designate regional styles (example: Cooking, Spanish - Andalusian style).

To locate recipes for specific countries or regions, go to the online catalog. To know if the Library has a particular book, search by the title of the book (or other item) in Primo