Welcome to the Online Reference Division of the Johns Hopkins University Press, where over 125 years of publishing tradition meets the latest technology to create new learning tools for scholars, students, and librarians. Here you will find four dynamic products:

The Early Republic: Critical Editions on the Founding of the United States

Since 1972, 17 volumes of primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members have been collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. These volumes of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress are used by Congress, historians, political scientists, and jurists to understand the most important and productive Congress in United States history.
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Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower

For over thirty years, historians, political scientists, sociologists, military analysts, and students have turned to the 21-volume Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower to find the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through full term of his presidency. This massive collection includes documents-many of them previously classified-from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
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Encyclopedia of American Studies

The term American studies encompasses a vast range of disciplines, all of which, in one way or another, are trying to describe the cultures of the United States. In recent years American studies has also incorporated comparative studies of Canada and Latin America; and indeed a transnational, global perspective on American culture has become one of the leading currents in the field as we begin the twenty-first century. Where, after all, do the borders of America stop, when its influence was, throughout the twentieth century, so pervasive on world cultures?
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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Now expanded and updated, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Revised extensively in 2004 to reflect a decade of rapidly changing scholarship, the Guide currently features 52 new entries and subentries and is updated annually.
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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1962 and 2008. Containing over 115,260 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England. In 2001, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) awarded the WSB Online the Besterman/McColvin medal for outstanding electronic reference work.
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