Middle School/Upper School Research: Class VIII History - Encounter
Destiny Catalog
Encyclopedia Britannica
- Britannica School This link opens in a new window
World Book Online
- World Book Online This link opens in a new window
Databases
- Infobase Modern World History This link opens in a new window
Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. - Infobase Issues and Controversies in American History This link opens in a new window
This database delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced coverage that provides the background, outcome, and contemporary points of view for every major debate and conflict in American history. All articles feature multiple primary sources, essential to understanding our nation’s past. In addition, all articles have been indexed to key subjects such as immigration, politics and government, race and civil rights, religion, war and military, and more. - Gale OneFile: World History This link opens in a new window
- Gale OneFile: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Primary Source Collections
- Library of Congress - Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early AmericasThe Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas is composed of important archaeological artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, maps and graphic works of art, which survey the earliest history of the lands that would become known as the Americas.
- Smithsonian Institute - Native American and Indigenous History and CultureThe Smithsonian holds thousands of museum collections, archives, books, and more related to the history of Native Americans and Indigenous communities of the world.
Other Digital Resources
- Library of Congress Exhibition - 1492: An Ongoing VoyageFrom the LOC: "The exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in the wake of Columbus's voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as slaves. All of these encounters, some brutal and traumatic, others more gradual, irreversibly changed the way in which peoples in the Americas led their lives."
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - History ResourcesThis links to a letter written by Columbus. Gilder Lehrman has other resources related to 1492. Click on "history resources" and use the search box.
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