• Infobase American History This link opens in a new window

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  This database includes primary documents and other sources about American History.
• Infobase Ancient and Medieval History

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  Ancient and Medieval History covers prehistory through the mid-1500s and includes maps and other primary documents.

• American Indian Experience

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  Access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history, covering more than 600 Native American groups, including videos, images, biographies of key people, event and topic entries, primary sources,...
• African-American Experience

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  Developed with the guidance of African American librarians and subject specialists, The African American Experience is the widest ranging and easiest-to-use online database collection on African...
• Daily Life through History

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  An archive of everyday life in all areas of the world from ancient times to the present day as shown in reference articles, illustrations, posters, cultural and government documents, speeches, letters, and personal narratives.
• Alexander Academic Video Online

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  Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons.

• Votes for Women: Struggle for Women's Suffrage

  Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress
• American President: A Reference Resource

  From the Scout Report" The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia is "a national meeting place to research, reflect and report on issues of national importance to the governance of the United States, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency." With that in mind, staff members at the Center have created this excellent site containing in-depth information reviewed by prominent scholars on each president and their administration."
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of American Exploration and Settlement

  American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
• Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

  The culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The Voyages website itself is the product of two years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.
• Top 10 U.S. Civil War Sites

  National Geographic's list of the Top 10 Civil War Sites.
• Civil War Parks from the National Park Service

  Long list of National Parks dedicated to the memory of the Civil War. Each park has a "History and Culture" feature with a short summary of the battle.
• The Valley of the Shadow

  The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction. In this digital archive you may explore thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Giving voice to hundreds of individual people, the Valley Project tells forgotten stories of life during the era of the Civil War.

• Gilded Age/Robber Baron Research Guide
• Atomic Bomb Debate
• Women's Rights
• The Nanjing Massacre

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• Holocaust and Night Research Guide