History

Database Publisher	Subject	Details
Gale Group	U.S. History Resource Center	Primary documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
	Annals of American History	American history presented through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia.
	CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly)	American politics, federal and state government, American institutions, campaigns and elections, current events, and world affairs.
	CQ Supreme Court Collection	Supreme Court decisions accompanied by historical analyses, timely updates, and expert commentary; biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.
	Social Studies Websites	Include: World History and Geography – Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. American History and Geography American Government.
Gale Group	Modern World History Resource Center	History of the 20th Century: it integrates reference sources from the Gale Group, Macmillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons, along with full-text articles from more than 100 academic journals, maps and images. This collection also includes Full-text and facsimile images for over 1,400 primary source documents from Primary Source Microfilm.
Gale Group	Biography Resource Center	This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

Selected Links to History-Related Website

Publisher	Subject	Details
Library of Congress	Global Gateway	Nations of the World: A comprehensive look at all aspects of life in each country (such as history, culture, and current affairs), with links to each country’s authentic websites.
CIA	The World Factbook	Countries of the World: This site supplies vital information about geographical characteristics and populations of all countries of the world. It also Includes a directory of chief of states and cabinet members of all foreign governments in the world (updates weekly).
U.S Department of State	Background Notes	Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of world states.
U.S. Government	U.S. Government Manual	As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, and boards, commissions, and committees. The Manual begins with reprints of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. Government Official Web Portal	FirstGov.gov	FirstGov.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. This portal transcends the traditional boundaries of government and its global vision–connecting the world to all U.S. government information and services. Among the site’s features are links to all 50 states’ homepages, to all government agencies, and to the three branches of government (Judicial, Executive, and Legislative).

Primary Sources: Selected Websites

Publisher	Subject	Details
University of Rochester	Primary Documents	This site provides Primary documents in world and U.S. history arranged by historical period or by country name. Also included are descriptions, analyses, and commentary of events and people in those historical periods and places.
Hanover College, Ohio	Hanover Historical Texts Project	World and U.S. primary documents arranged by historical time periods. The Project's principal aim is to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses.
Fordham University, New York	Internet History Sourcebooks Project	Primary documents from around the World from ancient to modern times. The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use.
University of Oklahoma Law School	U.S. Historical Documents	U.S. Historical documents from Pre-Colonial Era until the present arranged by time periods
NARA : National Archives and Records Administration	Digital Classroom	This site Contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States.
New York Public Library	Pictures Collection Online	Historical pictures from American history
Yale University Law School	Avalon Project	U.S. Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy from pre-18^th to 21^st century
University of Minnesota	Human Rights Library	Links to Centers for Human Rights Research and Training, presenting Primary Human Rights Documents
Library of Congress (Washington D.C.)	http://www.loc.gov/	A rich resource for history-related topics, historical photos, and documents.

Social Studies

Database Publisher	Subject	Details
Gale Group	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center	This resource center Provides information on social issues, viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Gale Group Provided by NOVEL*	Business & Company Resource Center	This Business & company resource center provides companies profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, companies histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Gale Group	Biography Resource Center	This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

* NOVEL is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a project funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Created by Dina Jalowski

Last revised February 1, 2005