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Databases

History

The African American Experience Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
The African American Experience is the widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection of information about African American life ever assembled and is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture. 

Annals of American History (To access from home click HERE)
From Britannica.  Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia. 

AP Image (To access from home click HERE)
The AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1840s.

Biography Resource Center
Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.

Daily Life in America Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Daily Life America provides a vibrant glimpse into the things big and small that make up the day-to-day lives of normal folk throughout the history and pre-history of America.

Daily Life Premium Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Daily Life Premium provides a vibrant glimpse into the things big and small that make up the day-to-day lives of people throughout the history and pre-history of the world.

Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards and covers core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies. This database also includes a selection of primary sources, creative works, and multimedia as well as an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources covering a wide range of topics including the arts, business, education, history, law, literature, medicine, religion, science, and social science.

History Resource Center--United States
A multi-dimensional collection of uniquely combined current full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles, overviews, and facsimiles of historic documents ranging from pre-colonial times to the present.

History Resource Center--World
A collection of articles, overviews, and primary sources of historic documents ranging from ancient times to the present.

The Latino American Experience Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Comprehensive, informative, and easy to use, the Latino American Experience marks the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos.

New York Times Historical (To access from home click HERE)
This database provides searchable full page and article images of full-text articles dating back to the newspaper's first issue.  Coverage: September 1851-December 2005. 

Pop Culture Universe Due to temporary technical difficulties, this database is available only from within the library.
Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present.

 

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