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History

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These premium resources provide reliable and verified information compiled by trusted reference publishers. They are paid for by the library so they are free with your library card!

U.S. History in Context
World History in Context

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Recommended Websites

  • American Memory from the Library of Congress

    Library of Congress site with access to primary source material (7 million items) dealing with American History and culture.

  • American Rhetoric

    Indexes a database of full text, audio and visual versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, interviews and other recorded media events.
     

  • Avalon Project

    Historical documents in law, history and government from Yale University.

  • Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

    Chronicling America is a Library of Congress resource that provides searchable American historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963. You can also use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

  • Perseus Digital Library

    A collection of materials and links dealing with the ancient world, maintained by Tufts Univeristy.

  • This Day in History

    History Channel site with search engines on "This Day in Civil War History," "Wall Street History" and "What Happened on Your Birthday".

EBSCO Discovery Service

Search our Premium Resources for articles in magazines, journals, newspapers, and more.

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