HISTORY
Newspaper Archive - (No remote access) International newspapers from 1187 AD to 2010 AD.
Gale Student Resources in Context - (Password protected off-campus). A complete source for Historical research, with well-researched, authoritative articles from books, journals, magazines, and primary sources.
Gale Global Issues in Context - (Password protected off-campus). Perspectives on international news and events.
Current Issues: Reference Shelf - (Password protected off-campus). A variety of current social, scientific, health, political, and global issues.
AP Images - (See POWER Library). News photographs from the late 19th century to the present.
International World History Project - World History From The Pre-Sumerian Period To The Present. A Collection Of World History Related Essays, Documents, Maps and Music.
History World - Historyworld’s aim is to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Oxford Encyclopedia of African-American History
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Outline Maps of the World
Making of America - A significant body of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure.
American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - Gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
History Matters - Authoritative websites covering U.S. history. Sites can be searched by time period and topical keywords.
History Place - Paid for by advertisements, this site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy.
HyperHistory -Timelines of lives and events in world history.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook - - Collection of historical texts related to modern (post-medieval) history.
Social Issues Browse current issues topic and pro/con links
WWW-VL History Central Catalogue - The Virtual Library is considered among the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.
Europeana.Eu - Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects; Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers; Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts; Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts, from museums and galleries, archives, libraries, and audio-visual collections.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States - Presents data from our most recent census statistics to historical statistics compiled throughout the decades.
Measuring Worth - Determines the price of goods.
American Fact Finder - Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data
Invent Now: Hall of Fame - Search the library, or browse information by inventor, invention, induction date and decade.
Canadian Constitutional Documents - National and provincial government documents.
Peel’s Prairie Provinces Newspapers - Western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies. As of Fall 2010, Peel contains approximately 7,500 digitized titles and over 35,000 newspapers.
Peel’s Prairie Provinces Images - providing an extraordinarily diverse picture of the Prairie experience.
Early Canadiana Online - Canada's libraries, museums, archives, and government agencies possess numerous rich digital collections containing our nation’s documentary heritage.
Library and Archives Canada - National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada combined to form the Library and Archives of Canada, a source of enduring knowledge and the continuing memory of the government of Canada and its institutions. Good primary source material.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography - people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada.
Historical Atlas of Canada - The Atlas uses thematic mapping to describe events, issues or patterns in Canada's development.
Harrisburg Academy History Primary Source Links Page
