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8th Grade Project: US History

Infobase: American History
Infobase: Issues & Controversies in History
Debate and balanced opinions on issues from the 1600's to the present.
Infobase: Issues & Controversies
key facts, arguments, history, and current context of today’s most important issues

Gale In Context: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources. *Includes audio component.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. *Includes audio component.
Gale In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content. *Includes audio component.

History Reference Center
Full text for reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books; leading history periodicals; historical documents; biographies of historical figures; and historical photos, maps, and video.
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Original Sources (formerly: Annals of America) This link opens in a new window
Original (primary) source documents from U.S. History
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Historical New York Times This link opens in a new window
Complete New York Times from 1851-present.

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Library of Congress: Digital Collections - American History
National Archives
Primary source documents that highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history or government
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Click here for 1945-1970s: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/list#postwar-united-states
Life Magazine Photo Archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
Chronicling America
Historic American newspapers, 1777-1963

Proquest Ebook Central
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Learn360 is a streaming multimedia resource for K-12 schools that provides access to over 153,000 resources.