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History & Biography
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Discovering CollectionContent covers history, literature, biography, science, and social studies. Resources include primary sources, essays, critical analyses, biographies, creative works, and multimedia.
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Junior Reference CollectionInformation from reference books about people, places, history, science, and more. Includes audio, video, photos, and maps.
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U.S. History In ContextPrimary documents, secondary sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history. Formerly titled History Resource Center: U.S.
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World Book OnlineIn addition to the well-known encyclopedia, offers headline news explored in depth, primary sources, pathfinders, atlases and images and a dictionary.
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World History In ContextBroad coverage moving chronologically from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe. Content includes primary sources, reference books, periodicals, maps, atlases and images.
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Websites
Food Timeline
Food history from prehistoric times to the present.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/
FilmSite
History of the Hollywood film industry from the
pre-1900s thro...
morehttp://www.filmsite.org/
Art Cyclopedia: the fine art search engine
Discover artists and movements by timeline, name, subject and nationality.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Minnesota Video Vault
Video clips of the people, places and issues of Minnesota are from documentaries, interviews and performances from the T...
morehttp://www.mnvideovault.org/
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
From the Library of Congress, resources include videos, sound files, manuscripts, sheet music, essays and more pertaining to music from around the world.
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
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