History Resource Center: U.S.
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History Resource Center: U.S. provides a complete overview of U.S. history and covers the most-studied events, issues and current information. It combines documents from Primary Source Microfilm’s™ digital archives; articles from classic Macmillan Reference USA™ and Charles Scribner’s Sons® references; as well as other Gale proprietary content such as country and era overview information, and full-text periodicals and journals.
with a more advanced and easy to use interface, History Resource Center: U.S. delivers comprehensive search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today.
INTEgRATEd ACCEss To dIvERsE INFoRmATIoN
Unlike other sources that only offer periodical or bibliographic information, History Resource Center: U.S. brings together a broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis. No other electronic source provides integrated access to such diverse types of information.
CATEgoRIZEd REsULTs sImPLIFY REsEARCH
History Resource Center: U.S. offers extensive cross-references with attention paid to the natural research process and ease of use. Additionally, search results are displayed by data type, which is helpful in projects requiring students to locate a certain number of primary source documents, secondary sources or periodicals. Information is accessed through five main search paths: person, time period, subject, full text and custom search, and are organized by the following data types:
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Annotated chronology with U.S. and world context Articles, essays and biographies on U.S. and world history topics, eras, etc. More than 5,000 primary source documents including 9,100+ commentaries with analysis of historical significance
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120 volumes 39 reference 20,800 topic overviews 208 country overviews 367,600 full-text articles More than 6,400 images 1,500+ seals, maps and flags
CoNvENIENT FEATUREs ENHANCE THE LEARNINg PRoCEss
One of the time-saving advantages of History Resource Center: U.S. is the seamless blending of content types and crossreferencing. Links include:
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Graphical Timeline — lists significant historical events that are linked to relevant content so users are just one click away from understanding how a particular time period relates to the chosen event Inter-linking — generates extensively cross-referenced data displayed by content type, mimicking the natural associative learning process Reserved Reading — allows marking of documents, URLs and bibliographic citations for remote access or onsite instruction E-mail and Save Search Results — allows users to e-mail search results to themselves or others and save results to disc or hard-drive Research Guide — teaches how to conduct history research utilizing best search practices Spotlight On — links topics in current events to historical topics
PRImARY soURCEs INCLUdE:
Louis Banks A Hobo Remembers the Great Depression Bill Clinton Remarks on the Oklahoma City Bombing, April 23, 1995 dwight d. Eisenhower Farewell address Ulysses s. grant Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America saddam Hussein Hussein’s Speech Upon Withdrawal from Kuwait, February 26, 1991 samuel morse Excerpt of Invention of the Telegraph Eleanor Roosevelt Universal Declaration of Human Rights Bob Roy A Personal Narrative of the Korean War Alexander scammell A Soldier’s Love Letter, June 8, 1777 Text of NAFTA, 1993
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