History

Databases

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Gale In Context: U.S. History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, this library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work established in the field.

With Gale In Context: World History, access centuries worth of rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content, and give students the tools to research and learn effectively. Students can dive deeper into a variety of topics ranging from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Holocaust to modern Human Rights Movements. Pinpoint comprehensive media-rich collections to help learners evaluate content in diverse formats and enhance their critical thinking skills.

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Handbook of Texas
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and culture. The Handbook of Texas Online is a project of the Texas State Historical Association.

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Salem History
Great Events from History: The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries; Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The 18th & 19th Centuries and Notorious Lives; and The Sixties in America.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Detailed property and land-use records depicting the architecture of Texas towns and cities throughout the past hundred years.

Websites

HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

History.com
Historical information ranging from Great Speeches (in audio) to facts about This Day in History. Official History Channel website.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

National Museum of American History
The Archives Center holds more than 1,300 collections documenting the history of technology, invention and innovation, business and consumer culture, American music and popular culture as well as many other topics.

Portal to Texas History
The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials. Discover anything from an ancestor's picture in a college yearbook to a rare historical map.

Texas.gov
Official website of the state of Texas. Find public records and more.