History
Discovering Collection
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Cultures, Geography, Literature, Science, US HIstory, World History.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
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World Book Online
The premier online reference source. With thousands of articles, state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, periodical content, and more!
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MasterFile Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 85,827 biographies, 105,789 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Traveler's Accounts
Traveler's accounts of their journeys and the lands they visit are great primary sources to use in your report.
Chronology of US Historical Documents
Contains hundreds of primary sources about US History from the pre-colonial period to the present day. On the University of Oklahoma College of Law website.
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Contains primary text materials in the public domain from around the world throughout all time periods.
Connecticut History Online (CHO)
The CHO website currently contains about 14,000 images of photographs, drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, title and date.
American Women's History
American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
The National Constitution Center
NCC is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the US Constitution, the Constitution's history and the Constitution's relevance to our daily lives.
Portals to the World
Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.
Vikings: The North Atlantis Saga
Great interactive site about the history of the Vikings North Atlantic Saga from the Smithsonian.
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.
On this Day
Find out what happened in History on a specific day. From the New York Times.