New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005. 2780 pp. 6 vols.
A six-volume survey of the history of Western thought and culture, presented through 700 alphabetically arranged entries. Each entry explores the origin, cultural interpretations, and historical themes of such subjects as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital, among many others.
This resource is available online through the library for residents at http://ilsweb.lvccld.org/record=b1499452~S12.
An older version from the 1970’s – The Dictionary of the History of Ideas http://historyofideas.org/DicHist/dict.html is available free online.
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