glossaries

History

Digital History This impressive site from Steven Mintz at the University of Houston includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and...

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I'm currently trying to learn Portuguese, using BBC online's excellent language learning facilities. For those interested, the BBC has online language learning for French, Spanish, german,...

Reference: New Literary Glossary for Educators from the National Endownment for the Humanities

From the EDSITEment portion of the NEH site. Each term comes with links to lesson plans using that term. Access EDSITEment Literary Glossary Source: National Endowment for the Humanities

Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

Talking Glossary of Genetic TermsThe National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in...

Reference Resources: The Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

An excellent use of multimedia. From the Glossary: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and...

Chicken Glossary

Chicken GlossaryWe’ve compiled a Glossary from several sources…Source: BackYardChickens.com

Reference Shelf: Online Glossary of Economic Terms from The Economist

An A-Z list (browse) of economic and economic related terms. The online content is adapted from the book Essential Economics by Matthew Bishop from Profile Books. You don’t have to be an...

New Resource from NIST: Information Technology: Glossary of Acronyms, Abbreviations

From the Article: NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) hopes to bring some order to the sometimes inconsistent and often confusing world of IT (information technology) acronyms...

A Collection of English-Spanish Glossaries from the U.S. Government

These glossaries are from the Spanish Language Style Guide from WebContent.gov. + English-Spanish Glossary of Federal Agencies, Officials and Laws + Frequently Mistranslated English Terms + Names of...

Fashion Designer Dictionary

Fashion Designer DictionaryDon’t know Lagerfeld from Lanvin? TheBudgetFashionista’s Guide to the Designers You Need Know is a will fill you in on the designers and design lines that you need to...

A Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws

A Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and LawsA product of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress at the request of the U.S. House Committee on AgricultureSource: U.S....

New: Thesaurus for Use in College and University Archives

From the Site: SAA’s latest ePublication, Thesaurus for Use in College and University Archives, compiled and edited by Kate Bowers, is a set of 1,300 terms for use by any college or university...