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History Reference Center (Ebsco)
Designed for academic research, this database features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.

American History Online
More than 500 Years of Political, Military, Social, and Cultural History-subject entries, biographies, primary sources, images and videos, maps and charts, and timelines

Modern World History Online
Covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries.

Country Reports
Cultural, historical, statistical country information

Oxford Research Premium
Over 2 million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias; Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas.

EBSCO Ultra Online
A comprehensive collection of full-text reference resources including ERIC, Newspaper Source, and TOPICsearch.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a database of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

MAS Ultra Electronic Periodicals (Ebsco)
MAS Ultra provides full text for tens of thousands of magazines, biographies and primary source documents, hundreds of reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book), an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text back files (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Statistica
This company provides current market figures and forecasts for the most important consumer goods within a total of more than 200 markets. All key figures are internationally comparable and are based on extensive analyses of data from national and international statistical offices, associations, company reports and the trade press.
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Webquests

Historical Figures During the American Revolution http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=32388

Revolutionary War http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=2291

Revolutionary War: Gaining Independence http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=6937

The American Revolution: A Colonial Newspaper http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webamericanms4.html

The Role of Philadelphia in the Revolutionary War http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=7163/webquest.php?w=14722

Finding Reliable Sources

You have found a web site that looks good, professionally designed, nice pictures etc. BUT, it is reliable? Ask yourself these six important questions BEFORE you use any information from the web site!

1. Who is responsible for this site?

2. What are his or her credentials?

3. Have the authors documented their own sources?

4. What is the domain name? Does it end in .com, .gov, .edu, .org, or .net?

5. Who else links to the site? You can perform a link check in Google by entering "link:webaddress" in the search box. Is it linked to other reliable sites?

6. Would you include this site in a bibliography?

Primary Sources in American History

American Memory Collection - The Library of Congress's American Memory project

The Avalon Project - Yale University's collection of law, history, and diplomacy primary source material

Chronicling America - From the Library of Congress, digital copies of American newspapers from 1836-1922.

Making of America - From the University of Michigan, primary source materials covering the American history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

New York Public Library Collections - check out the Digital Gallery, Manuscripts & Archives, and Special Collections

National History Day - a comprehensive list of primary source sites, both for general American History and for more specific topics

Documenting the American South - from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, primary sources related to southern history, culture, and literature

National Archives - from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, government documents pertaining to many aspects of American history

Smithsonian Institution - primary sources from the Smithsonian museums, including information about military and political history

History Matters - from the American Social History Project, a searchable database of primary source collections in American History

The Valley of the Shadow - details life in two American towns, one Northern and one Southern, from the pre-Civil War era through Reconstruction

A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents - The University of Oklahoma College of Law's repository of historical documents from pre-colonial to present time

From Revolution to Reconstruction - American History primary source documents from the colonial period through modern day

AMDOCS - Documents for the study of American history

Primary Documents in American History - Web guide created by the Library of Congress

 Experience Music Project - The Experience Music Project at the Seattle Center houses collections of music, film, and popular culture

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - visit the exhibits of the museum for primary source material related to music

Our Documents - 100 milestone documents from American history

Repositories of Primary Sources - indexing site for online primary source collections

Smithsonian's History Explorer - explore the collections of the Smithsonian Institute Museums

General United States History Web Sites

America Rock Songs http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/America.html

American Revolution: Timeline http://dcn.davis.ca.us/vme/vo/

Early American History Crossword Puzzles http://www.earlyamerica.com/crossword/

Flags of the American Revolution http://members.tripod.com/~txscv/revolt.htm

Footnote Original War Documents http://www.footnote.com/

Growth of a Nation Video http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html

History Place: American Revolution Timeline http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm

Jump Back in Time http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/index.php

Liberty: The American Revolution Newspaper Chronicles http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

National Parks Service: The American Revolution http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/revwar/

Revolutionary America Maps http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html

Revolutionary War Biographies http://www.42explore2.com/revolt3.htm

Revolutionary War Internet Scavenger Hunt http://lasd.k12.pa.us/teachers/purnellj/RWHunt.html

Spy Letters of the American Revolution http://www2.si.umich.edu/spies/

The Revolutionary War: Kid Info http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html

Time Line: Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/timeline.html

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