Online Links
for the Senior
U.S. History Research Project

The History Resource Center: U.S.
  • This Thomson Gale database includes reference book articles, journal articles, current magazine and newspaper articles, multimedia (like video clips, photographs, illustrations), and primary source articles.
SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Sources
  • This ProQuest database not only contains reference book, journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and primary source documents, but a very big collection of  maps, charts, works of art, letters, photographs, posters and advertisements, texts of speeches, and political cartoons.
Harp Week
  • Harper's Weekly was a 19th Century illustrated magazine published from 1857 to 1916.  This description, from the Harp Week web site, explains how important this database is...
    • Until now there has been no way for students and researchers to access the illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads that these volumes contain without spending hours poring over microfilm or locked-up original copies in rare book rooms of libraries. Harpers Weekly is really the only consistent, comprehensive, week-to-week chronological record of what happened world-wide in the last half of the nineteenth century.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's Teachers' and Students' Page
History Now
American Memory from the Library of Congress
  • This description is from the American Memory page...
    • American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • This Thomson Gale database contains online versions of the following e-books: American Civil War Reference Library, American Revolution Reference Library, Americans at War, and History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide.  These e-books can be easily searched to find research for your project.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
  • This Thomson Gale database contains viewpoint essays, reference articles, magazine, journal and newspaper articles, statistical information, media files, and links to websites on important topics facing Americans today.
Issues and Controversies in American History
  • This database contains biographies, timelines, background articles, photographs, maps and carefully selected primary documents.  This description is from the Issues and Controversies web site...
    • This database is a unique online resource of clear, concise, and balanced explanations of the most contentious issues in American history. It places students and other users in the middle of the great historical debates, allowing them to view these issues as they were being argued.
    • Issues & Controversies in American History  is a reference database, a classroom tool, and a home-learning resource. It combines authoritative factual accounts with in-depth explanations of opposing points of view and numerous special features, so students and other users can quickly grasp the essentials of even the most complex historical topics.
 
Passwords for all of these databases can be obtained in the library.  Write them all in your Agenda Book.

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