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The Encyclopedia of Alabama is an online encyclopedia of the state of Alabama's history , culture, geography , and natural environment. It is a statewide collaboration that involves more than forty institutions from across Alabama that share their archives with the project. Auburn University hosts the encyclopedia's editorial offices and servers and the Alabama Humanities Foundation holds copyright to the encyclopedia's original content. Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Alabama Department of Education and the University of Alabama .

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13-1070: (Redirected from South Carolina Encyclopedia ) All except one (New York) are free and deal with a state of the United States. [REDACTED] This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( December 2018 ) State Name Sponsored by Alabama Encyclopedia of Alabama Alabama Humanities Foundation Arkansas Encyclopedia of Arkansas Central Arkansas Library System Colorado Colorado Encyclopedia History Colorado Connecticut Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography (10 vols, 1917–23) American Historical Association Connecticut Connecticut History CThumanities Florida Floripedia: A Florida Encyclopedia (a collection of links to original sources, not an encyclopedia) Florida Center for Instructional Technology , University of South Florida Georgia New Georgia Encyclopedia Georgia Humanities and

26-625: Is "the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities ". It began as the "Committee for the Humanities and Public Policy" and in 1986 was renamed "Alabama Humanities Foundation." [1] [2] In 2020, the organization was renamed Alabama Humanities Alliance. It operates from its headquarters in Birmingham . This Alabama -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an encyclopedia

39-598: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gale (publisher) Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan , United States, west of Detroit . It has been a division of Cengage since 2007. The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group , is active in research and educational publishing for public , academic , and school libraries , and businesses. The company

52-544: Is known for its full-text magazine and newspaper databases, Gale OneFile (formerly known as Infotrac), and other online databases subscribed by libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion , history , and social science . Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr. , the company was acquired by the International Thomson Organization (later

65-800: The Oregon Historical Society Pennsylvania Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities South Carolina South Carolina Encyclopedia "A joint project of South Carolina Humanities , the University of South Carolina Press , the USC Libraries , the USC Center for Digital Humanities , the USC College of Arts & Sciences ,

78-736: The Thomson Corporation ) in 1985 before its 2007 sale to Cengage. In 1998, Gale Research merged with Information Access Company and Primary Source Media, two companies also owned by Thomson, to form the Gale Group. Thomson has acquired Information Access Company (publisher of InfoTrac ) in 1995 and Primary Source Media (formerly named Research Publications) in 1979. In 1999, Thomson Gale acquired Macmillan Library Reference (including Scribner's Reference, Thorndike Press, Schirmer, Twayne Publishers, and G. K. Hall ) from Pearson (which had acquired it from Simon & Schuster in 1998; Macmillan USA

91-545: The USC Institute for Southern Studies , the South Carolina State Library , and many other organizations." Tennessee Tennessee Encyclopedia Tennessee Historical Society – University of Tennessee Press Texas Handbook of Texas Texas State Historical Association Virginia Encyclopedia Virginia Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Library of Virginia (formerly

104-567: The University of Georgia Press Illinois Encyclopedia of Chicago Chicago History Museum Indiana Encyclopedia of Indianapolis Indianapolis Public Library Kansas Kansapedia (not to be confused with KansasPedia.com ) Kansas Historical Society (a state agency) Kentucky The Kentucky Enciclopedia University Press of Kentucky Kentucky Encyclopedia of Louisville University Press of Kentucky Louisiana 64 Parishes (formerly Know Louisiana ) Louisiana Endowment for

117-1099: The Humanities Maine Maine: An Encyclopedia Publius Research Massachusetts Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, biographical—genealogical (1916) Minnesota MNopedia Minnesota Historical Society Mississippi Mississippi Encyclopedia Mississippi Humanities Council Missouri Missouri Encyclopedia State Historical Society of Missouri Nevada Online Nevada Encyclopedia Nevada Humanities New York Encyclopedia of New York State Not free; requires subscription. Available through Gale . 30-day free trial from booklibrarian.com . North Carolina NCPedia State Library of North Carolina Ohio Ohio History Central (archived location) Ohio History Connection Oklahoma The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture Oklahoma Historical Society Oregon The Oregon Encyclopedia Portland State University and

130-494: The United States-related lists Misplaced Pages resources for researchers Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Incomplete lists from December 2018 Encyclopedia of Alabama Historian Wayne Flynt served as the project's first editor-in-chief. Claire Wilson is the current editor-in-chief. The Alabama Humanities Foundation (est. 1974),

143-1455: The Virginia State Library) Virginia Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915-) Robarts Library , University of Toronto . Arranged by time period and office held, not alphabetically. Washington HistoryLink HistoryLink , 4Culture , King County, Washington , Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, The Norcliffe Foundation West Virginia e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia West Virginia Humanities Council Wyoming Encyclopedia of Wyoming Wyoming State Historical Society See also [ edit ] List of online encyclopedias v t e Lists of encyclopedias By branch of knowledge Online Danish US States Biographical dictionaries By language Arabic Chinese Dutch Hungarian Ukrainian By date 18th century 19th century 20th century English Bibliography of encyclopedias Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_online_encyclopedias_of_U.S._states&oldid=1211744611#South_Carolina_Encyclopedia " Categories : American online encyclopedias Encyclopedias of U.S. states American encyclopedias Lists of encyclopedias Lists of websites States of

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156-628: Was bought by a private equity consortium consisting of Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for $ 7.75 billion and the name was changed from Thomson Learning to Cengage Learning on July 24, 2007. Patrick C. Sommers was president of Gale from October 22, 2007, until he retired in 2010. Gale produces hundreds of products, such as Gale Academic OneFile, Biography and Genealogy Master Index , General OneFile, General Reference Center, Sabin Americana (based on Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana ), and World History Collection. Gale print imprints include

169-598: Was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994). In 2000 it acquired the Munich -based K. G. Saur Verlag , but then sold it to Walter de Gruyter in 2006. On October 25, 2006, Thomson Corporation announced that it intended to wholly divest the Thomson Learning division, because, in the words of Thomson CEO Richard Harrington, "it does not fit with our long-term strategic vision." Thomson has said that it expected this sale to generate approximately $ 5 billion. Thomson Learning

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