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- Abbasid Caliphate
- Abbey Theatre
- Abelard, Peter
- Abercrombie, Lascelles
- Abnormal Psychology
- Aboriginal Peoples
- Abortion
- Abraham (Biblical Figure)
- Absalom, Absalom! (by William Faulkner)
- Absolutism
- Abstinence-Based Sex Education
- Abstract Art
- Abstract Expressionism
- Absurdism
- Abused Men
- Academic Cheating
- Academic Debate
- Academic Freedom
- Academic Intelligence
- Academic Libraries
- Academic Tenure
- Academic Writing
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Accountability in Education
- Accounting Education
- Accounting Ethics
- Accreditation in Higher Education
- Achebe, Chinua
- Achievement Motivation
- Acid Rain
- Acosta, Oscar "Zeta"
- Acquaintance Rape
- Acting
- Action Learning
- Action Research
- Active Learning
- Activism and Advocacy
- Acton, Lord
- Actor and Actress Interviews (Primary Sources)
- Actors' and Actresses' Memoirs (Primary Works)
- Adam Bede (by George Eliot)
- Adam, Robert
- Adams, Abigail
- Adams, Ansel
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, John
- Adams, John Quincy
- Adams, John Quincy (Primary Sources)
- Adams, Samuel
- Addams, Jane
- Addiction
- Addison, Joseph
- Adenauer, Konrad
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Adler, Alfred
- Adler, Mortimer J.
- Administrative Law
- Adolescence
- Adolescent Psychology
- Adolescent Psychopathology
- Adoption
- Adorno, Theodor
- Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Adult Education
- Adultery
- Advanced Placement
- Advertising Clutter
- Advertising Content Analysis
- Advertising Effectiveness
- Advertising Ethics
- Advertising History
- Advertising Law
- Advertising Recall
- Advertising Research
- Advertising Self-Regulation
- Advertising's Effect on Children
- Aeneid (by Virgil)
- Aeschylus
- Aesop and Aesop's Fables
- Aesthetics
- Affect (in Psychology)
- Affirmative Action
- Affirmative Action in Higher Education
- Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
- Afghan History
- AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)
- African American Dance
- African American Education
- African American Entrepreneurship
- African American Music
- African American Studies
- African American Women
- African Americans
- African Americans and Aging
- African Americans and World War II
- African Americans in Chicago
- African Americans in Detroit
- African Americans in Florida
- African Americans in New York
- African Americans in Philadelphia
- African Americans in Texas
- African Americans in the Military
- African Art
- African Cinema
- African Diaspora
- African Folklore
- African Francophone Literature
- African History
- African Literature
- African Music
- African National Congress
- African Philosophy
- African Poetry (Primary Sources)
- African Religions
- African-American Art
- African-American Autobiographies, 18th and 19th Centuries (Primary Sources)
- African-American Autobiographies, 20th and 21st Centuries (Primary Sources)
- African-American Culture
- African-American Drama
- African-American Folklore
- African-American Historiography
- African-American History
- African-American Intellectuals
- African-American Literature
- African-American Oratory
- African-American Poetry
- African-American Social History
- African-American Soldiers in the Civil War
- African-American Women Writers
- African-Americans in Motion Pictures
- African-Americans in the Old West
- African-Americans in the Revolutionary War Era
- Afro-Brazilians
- Afrocentric Education
- Afrocentrism
- Afro-Cubans
- Agamben, Giorgio
- Agassiz, Louis
- Age Discrimination
- Age of Reason
- Aged and the Workforce
- Agee, James
- Agent Orange
- Aggression
- Aggression in Children
- Agincourt
- Aging
- Aging and Sexuality
- Aging in Literature
- Agnew, Spiro
- Agnosticism
- Agrarian Reform
- Agrarian Reform in Latin America
- Agrarians
- Agricultural History
- Agricultural History (U.S.)
- Agricultural Policy of the U.S.
- Agricultural Trade
- Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
- Aidoo, Ama Ata
- AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
- AIDS Activism
- AIDS and Intravenous Drug Use
- AIDS in Africa
- AIDS in the Workplace
- AIDS Orphans
- AIDS/HIV and Men
- AIDS/HIV and Teenagers
- AIDS/HIV and Women
- AIDS/HIV Prevention and Education
- Aiken, Conrad
- Ainu
- Air Pollution
- Akhmatova, Anna
- Al Qaeda
- Alabama History
- Alamo
- Alas, Leopoldo
- Alaska History
- Albania
- Albee, Edward
- Albright, Madeleine
- Alcohol Advertising
- Alcohol and Teenagers
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
- Alcoholism
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Aldington, Richard
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Alegria, Claribel
- Alexander II (Tsar of Russia)
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander, Samuel
- Alexie, Sherman
- Alger, Horatio
- Algerian History
- Algerian War (1954-1962)
- Al-Ghazali
- Algonquin Indians
- Ali, Muhammad
- Alien Abduction
- Alimony
- Al-Jazeera
- All the King's Men (by Robert Penn Warren)
- Allegory of the Cave (Plato)
- Allen, Paula Gunn
- Allen, Woody
- Allende, Isabel
- Allende, Salvador
- Allfrey, Phyllis Shand
- Allied Occupation of Germany
- Allied Occupation of Japan
- Allport, Gordon W.
- All's Well That Ends Well (by William Shakespeare)
- Allston, Washington
- Alphabet
- Alternative Medicine
- Alternative Schooling
- Althusser, Louis
- Altman, Robert
- Altruism
- Alvarez, Julia
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Amazon
- Ambler, Eric
- Ambrose, Saint
- American Anthropology
- American Architecture
- American Art
- American Cinema
- American Constitutionalism
- American Culture
- American Drama
- American Dream
- American Dream in Literature
- American Exceptionalism
- American Flag
- American Folklore
- American Geography
- American History
- American Imperialism
- American Indian Education
- American Indian Removal
- American Isolationism
- American Literature
- American Loyalists
- American Music
- American Naval History
- American News Media
- American Patriotic Music
- American Philosophy
- American Poetry
- American Religious History
- American Revolution
- American Revolution Causes
- American Social History
- American Theater History
- American Whig Party
- American Women Writers
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
- AmeriCorps
- Amherst, Jeffery
- Amichai, Yehuda
- Amis, Kingsley
- Amis, Martin
- Amish
- Amistad Revolt
- Ammons, A. R.
- Amnesia
- Amnesty
- Anabaptists
- Analytic Philosophy
- Analytical Cartography
- Anarchism
- Anasazi Indians
- Anaxagoras
- Anaya, Rudolfo
- Ancestor Worship
- Ancient Africa
- Ancient Anatolia
- Ancient Athens
- Ancient Carthage
- Ancient China
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Epic Poetry (Primary Works)
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient India
- Ancient Israel
- Ancient Mesoamerica
- Ancient Persia
- Ancient Philosophy
- Ancient Rome
- Ancient Sparta
- Ancrene Wisse
- Andalusia
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Anderson, Laurie
- Anderson, Maxwell
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Andes Region History
- Angell, James Rowland
- Angell, Norman
- Angelou, Maya
- Anger Management
- Angevin England
- Anglo-French Relations
- Anglo-Saxon England
- Anglo-Saxon Literature
- Angola
- Anguissola, Sofonisba
- Animal Cloning
- Animal Cognition
- Animal Communication
- Animal Farm (by George Orwell)
- Animal Psychology
- Animal Rights
- Animism
- Anna Karenina (by Leo Tolstoy)
- Annan, Kofi
- Anne Boleyn
- Anomie
- Anorexia
- Anouilh, Jean
- Anselm, Saint
- Antarctica Exploration
- Antebellum America
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Anthropology
- Anthropology of Art
- Anthropology of Religion
- Anti-Americanism
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Antibiotic Usage
- Anti-Catholicism
- Anti-Communist Movement (U.S.)
- Antidepressants
- Antifederalists
- Anti-Feminism
- Antigone (by Sophocles)
- Antin, Mary
- Antioxidants
- Antiquities Trafficking
- Anti-Semitism
- Antisocial Behavior
- Antitrust in Europe
- Antitrust Law
- Antoine, Andre and the Theatre Libre
- Antonio Tabucchi
- Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Antony and Cleopatra (by William Shakespeare)
- Anxiety Disorders
- Anxiety in Children
- Anzaldua, Gloria
- Apache Indians
- Apartheid
- Apess, William
- Aphasia
- Apocalypse
- Apocalypse in Literature
- Apocrypha
- Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Apologizing
- Apostles
- Apostles' Creed
- Appalachia
- Appeasement of Hitler
- Appelfeld, Aharon
- Appia, Adolphe
- Applied Anthropology
- Appomattox Campaign
- Apprenticeship
- Aquaculture
- Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
- Arab American Literature
- Arab Americans
- Arab Christians
- Arab Cinema
- Arab League
- Arab Nationalism
- Arab Spring
- Arabic Language
- Arabic Literature
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Arafat, Yasser
- Aragon, Louis
- Archaeology
- Archetypes
- Archetypes in Film
- Archetypes in Literature
- Archimedes
- Architecture
- Archives and Records Management
- Arenas, Reinaldo
- Arendt, Hannah
- Argentina's Dirty War
- Argentine Economic History
- Argentine History
- Argentine Literature
- Argumentation
- Arianism
- Ariosto, Ludovico
- Aristocracy
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Arizona History
- Arkansas History
- Armenian History
- Arms Race
- Arms Reduction
- Armstrong, Louis
- Arnheim, Rudolf
- Arnold, Benedict
- Arnold, Matthew
- Aron, Raymond
- Arranged Marriages
- Ars Amatoria (by Ovid)
- Art and Commerce
- Art Censorship
- Art Deco
- Art Education
- Art Forgery
- Art History
- Art Nouveau
- Art Patronage
- Art Theft
- Art Therapy
- Artaud, Antonin
- Arthritis
- Arthur, Chester A.
- Arthur, King
- Arthurian Romance
- Articles of Confederation
- Artificial Insemination
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Arts and Crafts
- Arts in Nazi Germany
- Arts Management
- As I Lay Dying (by William Faulkner)
- As You Like It (by William Shakespeare)
- Asbestos
- Asceticism
- Asch, Solomon E.
- ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
- Ashbery, John
- Asian American Literature
- Asian Americans
- Asian Americans and Education
- Asian History
- Asian Literature
- Asian Philosophy
- Asimov, Isaac
- Asperger Syndrome
- Assertiveness
- Assimilation and American Indians
- Assisted Reproductive Technology
- Assisted Suicide
- Assistive Technology in Education
- Associative Learning (Conditioning)
- Astell, Mary
- Asthma
- Astrology
- Ataturk, Mustapha Kemal
- Athanasius, Saint
- Atheism
- Atherton, Gertrude
- Atlanta Child Murders
- Atlanta History
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Wall
- Atlantis
- Atlas Shrugged (by Ayn Rand)
- Atomic Bomb
- Atonement
- Attachment Disorders
- Attachment Theory
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Attlee, Clement
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Attribution (Psychology)
- Attribution Theory
- Atwood, Margaret
- Auden, W. H.
- Auditing
- Audubon, John James
- Auerbach, Erich
- Augustine, Saint
- Augustine, Saint (Primary Works)
- Augustus Caesar
- Aurora Leigh (by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
- Auschwitz
- Austen, Jane
- Auster, Paul
- Austin, Mary
- Australasia
- Australian Aborigines
- Australian Art
- Australian Cinema
- Australian History
- Australian Immigration History
- Australian Literature
- Australian Politics and Government
- Australian Popular Culture
- Austrian History
- Austrian School of Economics
- Auteur Theory
- Authoritarianism
- Autism
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Autobiographical Memory
- Autobiography
- Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (by Gertrude Stein)
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Automotive History
- Automotive Industry
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Awakening, The (by Kate Chopin)
- Ayer, A. J.
- Azerbaijan
- AZT (Zidovudine)
- Aztec Civilization