GALE CENGAGE REFERENCE eBOOKS
American Decades
American Decades Primary Sources
Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
Encyclopedia of Latin America History and Culture
Learning about the Holocaust
Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
Salem History ~ Salem History is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets. We currently have access to the following both in print and online:
The Decades - Salem's critically acclaimed American history series
Great Lives from History - A worldwide biographical resource
Great Events from History - A resource for worldwide events
Sharpe Online Reference ~ The titles in this collection offer a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. history and culture, focusing on the broad range of cultural, social, economic, and political issues; people; and events that have shaped American history. Content has been revised and updated since print publication. The collection includes the following titles:
- Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
- Encyclopedia of American Folklife: Communities, Cultures, and Identity Groups
- Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
- Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash
- Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
- American Presidential Campaigns and Elections
These titles comprise
- 42 individual volumes
- 3,000 articles
- 1,000 photographs, illustrations, charts, tables, and maps
- extensive bibliographies, cross-references, chronologies, cultural landmarks, documents, and glossaries
- free access to extensive primary source archives and web links to facilitate a deeper understanding of the subject matter
SIRS Decades ~ Features more than 5000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America.
You may also want to check out some of the general resources linked from the ONLINE RESEARCH LINKS sidebar on the Media Center web page. Many of these resources also include information on various history topics.
Some of these resources are also accessible from home with password access. Stop in the Media Center for the Online Resources for Hastings High School handout which lists all of these tools and includes user names and passwords for remote access when available.
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