History

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A multi-disciplinary database of thousands of magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

Encyclopedia with articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.

Encyclopedia Britannica redesigned just for kids.

Encyclopedia Britannica redesigned and written for teenagers.

Offers full page and article images with searchable full-text from 1849 to 2014.

Thousands of reference books available online. Includes VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever.

This is a research database containing full-text journals, magazines, reference books and thousands of primary source documents.

Digital collections of Illinois libraries, museums, historical societies and more.

Includes material from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.

Full-text issues of National Geographic (1888- ) and National Geographic Traveler (2010- )

Search local newspapers from Illinois, including the Daily Herald.

Extensive online database of 4,000+ historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the 2000s.

Access detailed articles on literature, history, science, and health.