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Databases

  • History Reference Center
    Includes full text for 150 leading history periodicals and features more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books.
  • MyHeritage
    MyHeritage is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases. It provides access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries.
  • U.S. History in Context
    Find comprehensive coverage of the most-studied topics, from the arrival of Vikings in North America 1,000 years ago to Vietnam, Watergate and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Websites

  • Arrival Records | National Parks Service (NPS)
    Ellis Island National Park has compiled a list of free websites where you can search for passenger arrival records (manifests). Some are very general and some can be very specific.
  • BBC Country Profiles
    Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
  • Chronicling America | Library of Congress
    Chronicling America (ISSN 2475-2703) is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.
  • CIA World Factbook
    Provides an overview of 266 countries and their cultures.
  • Global Gateway | Library of Congress
    World culture resources provided by the Library of Congress.
  • Global Road Warrior | World Trade Press
    Since 1993 World Trade Press has been dedicated to providing large-scale databases of country information to schools, libraries, academic institutions, global businesses, NGOs, and government agencies. Our content is wide, deep, and insightful, and is relied upon by more than 1,300 organizations worldwide.
  • National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
    The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.
    Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching a historical topic that interests you.
    Be sure to check out their Genealogy page. They also have a PDF resource for those researching enslaved ancestors.
  • TED: Global Issues talks
    Browse more than 4,100 TED talks given on global issues.
  • U.S. Freedman's Bureau Records | Ancestry.com
    With this free collection, you can discover the names of your African American ancestors, read their personal letters, see where they settled after the Civil War, and much more.
    *Must create/login to a free Ancestry.com account.
  • USA.Gov
    The official guide to government information and services, search this site for statutes and policy on nearly any topic.