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Biography In Context
More than 600,000 biographies integrating material from reference works, magazines and multimedia sources. Students of all ages will benefit from specially created portal pages with hand-picked high-interest resources.

CultureGrams Kids Edition
Experience the cultures of over 190 countries that includes maps, statistics, recipes, and in-depth information. Also includes information on all 50 U.S. states.

CultureGrams Online
Experience the cultures of over 190 countries that includes maps, statistics, recipes, and in-depth information. Also includes information on all 50 U.S. states.

Discovering Collection
A database for students that is comprised of biographies and essays that cover literature, history, biography, science and social studies.

Fold3 History & Genealogy Archives
Census records, state records, city directories and historical primary source documents from pre-U.S. Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a collection of printed reference resources that you can search online. The collection covers business, biographies, science, history and social issues.

Literature Resource Center
A wealth of information that offers literary criticism, biographies, work overviews, periodical articles, web sites and more.

New York Times Historical with Index
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993)

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• Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America
• Space Exploration Reference Library
• American Social Reform Movements Reference Library
• Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library
• World War II Reference Library
• Middle East Conflict Reference Library
• Harlem Renaissance

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• American Memory
  Search the Library of Congress digital collection of Americah history, including maps, sheet music, photographs, moving images, and sound recordings.
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• eHistory
  Search for timelines, maps and images, book reviews, biographies, and multimedia histories from ancient times to the present.
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