United States History

Reviews the structure of the American Government and offers insight into key political events.

From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, investigates the people, events, and stories of the United States' evolution.

International in scope, enables students and researchers to discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful.

Great Events and Great Lives offer far-reaching view of history, and include worldwide coverage of important events, men and women in all areas of achievement from ancient times to the modern era.

Provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including: Reference articles; periodical and newspaper articles; primary sources; multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps and tables; and video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources.

Provides maps and statistical information for the United States and foreign countries.

Portal of several large EBSCO databases covering all subjects and ranging from popular magazine articles to scholarly peer-reviewed journals.

Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that includes full-text content of more than 1,400 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in January 2012, offer top quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE's scholarly journal content.

Includes: Chicago Defender (1910-1975); The Guardian (1821-2003); The Observer (1791-2003); Los Angeles Times (1881-1988); Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922); The New York Times (1851-2008) with Index (1851-1993).

Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 110 document projects and archives with almost 4,200 documents and 56,000 pages of additional full-text documents. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, news from the archives, and teaching tools.

Fantastic site for finding primary sources; breaks down the 20th Century by decade

Primary source material including historical documents , photos & sound collections from the Library of Congress.

A wealth of info about past U.S. presidents and elections

Great site for biographical and chronological info, many hyperlinks to various highlights & info about women's history in the U.S.

Gateway website for topics such as Modern History, WW II, Art History. Also includes oral histories, maps and general history resources

From the LOC. This site searches select U.S. newspapers, ranging in time from 1880 - 1922.

Includes primary sources (voices of the movement) and in-depth timeline of 1963-65

offers firsthand accounts of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during WW II, coupled with historical images & other resources

Includes resources for American History by decade as well as provides excellent primary source documents

Gateway site to secondary and primary sources for American History

Great resource for primary sources for modern history.

The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is a searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers. It is also a gateway into the Ojibwe collections at the Minnesota Historical Society, including cultural items, photographs, and excerpts from relevant historical documents.

Another portal site for accessing great digitized collections

Online Resources

An excellent resource for multiple citation styles, including APA, Chicago, and MLA. This resource also offers guides to writing in specific subject areas such as writing in the sciences, writing in literature, and creative writing.

Excellently models proper MLA citation style. From Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Citation Management Tools

Citation management tools allow you to easily keep track and organize the information you cite in your writing.

Noodle Tools offers integrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing. Includes MLA and APA styles. Users must create an account.

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