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Chronologies and Histories (General)
Drama Research Guide > Image Research > Chronologies/Histories
Chronologies and histories help you identify artists and events from the playwright or composer's time or a play's setting. After identifying an artist, try an Author and Subject Heading searches in HOMER to find books devoted to reproducing his or her works, or use an art index to find reproductions in anthologies.
Chronologies
(Sometimes chronologies are temporarily shelved at the Assignments table in Level 1 Reference area.)
- Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (includes subject index)
-
Grove Art Online
-- Use the Explore feature to narrow results by
time/place.
- Chronology of World History. By H. E. L. Mellersh. Babbidge Ref. D 11 .M39 1999
- The New York Public Library Book of Chronologies. By Bruce Wetterau. Babbidge & Music/Drama Ref. D 11 W47 1990. (Very helpful--includes separate chronologies for painting and sculpture.)
- The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events. By Bernard Grun. Music/Drama Ref. D 11 G78 1991 (another copy and older editions are located in Babbidge's regular stacks). Includes chronologies of arts, technology, science, political science, etc.
For Historical Chronologies (i.e., political events):
- America History
and Life
- Historical
Abstracts (same
procedure as America History and Life)
Histories (General or Regional)
-
Encyclopedia Britannica Online --
can provide basic overviews.
- To find history books on a region (i.e., to study pictures of the locales and costumes), try the following HOMER Subject Heading searches:
[place]--history You may even find works further labeled as "pictorial works."
Example: russia--history
Or try a Keyword search: russia? histor? (See also how to find images in books.)
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