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U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today.

Providing a complete overview of U.S. history that 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. Unlike other sources that only offer periodical or bibliographic information, this broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis includes:

• More than 185,000 reference articles, including the best titles from Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and other top publishers
• Select articles from more than 95 new Gale reference titles not previously available
• 613,000+ periodical articles from respected publications like Newsweek, American Heritage and The Historian
• Easy to search galleries containing more than 73,000 images and 1,500+ seals, maps and flags
• More than 9,100 viewpoint essays
• Nearly 5,000 primary documents
• Video and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources
• The ability to cross-search World History in Context

Not only does this online solution provide the interactive content in context required by 21st-century learners, it surpasses all other electronic sources in providing integrated access to such diverse and rare primary source material as:

• 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
• Text of NAFTA, 1993
• And millions more

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World History in Context is a comprehensive online collection that uses an intuitive, Web-like interface to provide multicultural, global and research-based dynamic content that supports today’s history research requirements.

Unlike other sources that only offer periodical or bibliographic information, World History in Context offers students and researchers unparalleled access to a broad collection of scholarly analysis and award-winning full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents, including:

• More than 2,000 reference articles from acclaimed history titles from Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and other highly regarded encyclopedias and compendiums
• Select articles from more than 125 new Gale reference titles not previously available
• 315+ periodical articles from the Journal of World History, History Review and The Historian
• More than 600 historical maps, atlases and other edtorially selected images delivered through east-to-search image galleries
• 1,760 primary documents from Primary Source Microfilm™
• Video and audio selections from archival newsreels to NPR
• The ability to cross-search U.S. History in Context with a subscription to both products

World History in Context moves chronologically over 5,000 years from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe, to ensure that the events, movements and individuals that defined, informed and shaped world history are covered with a sense of balance. For example:

• European history recounts the events that shaped the continent and defined international relations and global history — including two world wars, the Cold War, genocide and the rise and fall of Communism
• Asian history recounts the events from Bronze Age China to modern India, including the events of the 20th century that revolved around Communism in China and revolution in South East Asia
• African, Indian and Latin American history coverage includes the end of colonization in Africa and India, as well as the political and social movements in Latin America

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Navigating the Homepage (1:15)
• Searching (1:31)
• Topic Pages and Documents (2:59)

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Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.

Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more.

Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist, or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.

And, with ongoing updates and new content always being added, you’ll keep coming back to discover more. Popular and recently added collections include:

U.S. collections deliver hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.

Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada; and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.

U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records; Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London; and more.

Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from German census, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more; Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia; and more.

Military collections deliver over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere; and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.

Multimedia collections deliver millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.

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*Contact Genealogy for username and password

Sanborn fire insurance maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas.

Textual information on construction details (for example, steel beams or reinforced walls) is often given on the plans while shading indicates different building materials. Extensive information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms such as stable, garage, and warehouse to names of owners of factories and details on what was manufactured in them. In the case of large factories or commercial buildings, even individual rooms and the uses to which they were put are recorded on the maps. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery. Click here to access a key provided by the Sanborn Map Company. (Note: Because the key is a detailed file, it must be large so that you can view it completed. As a result, it may take a while for the key to load onto your computer screen.)

Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. To order individual maps directly from the Sanborn Map Company (now owned by Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR)) please call 1-800-352-0050 or visit their website at http://www.edrnet.com/

For Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) click here

Note: The Library provides access to Kentucky Maps only

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HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids.

18th Century or 20th Century. European or Native American. Farm or Factory. East Coast or West Coast. Where does your American past begin?

Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.

The collection consists of six core data sets:

U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. In total the collection covers more than 140 million names.

Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Titles have been digitized from our own renowned microform collections, as well from the American Antiquarian Society via an exclusive partnership.

Periodical Source Index (PERSI), published by the Allen County Public Library, is recognized as the most comprehensive index genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800.

Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era.

Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874, offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the Civil War.

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information.

 

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Census Search
• Census Results
• State Maps
• Image Viewer Tools
• Notebook
• Search History

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America’s GenealogyBank provides Web-based access to millions of the United States’ core genealogical records from 1652 to the present day. Through basic name search and advanced search options, genealogists can easily find and browse digital images of American historical genealogies, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements, casualty lists, military and government documents and other essential primary sources. It also provides the full text of modern U.S. newspaper obituaries and enhanced Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records. Significantly, each of America’s GenealogyBank’s five historical or modern collections is updated with new content on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

Articles, obituaries and more from Historical Newspapers
By searching approximately 700,000 complete issues of over 2,800 historical U.S. newspapers, researchers can quickly find their ancestors in millions of articles, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements and other items. Digitized in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society and other institutions, this exclusive collection includes titles published between 1690 and 1977.

America’s Obituaries and the Social Security Death Index
America’s GenealogyBank offers the full text of more than 34 million obituaries and death notices published in over 2,300 newspapers from all 50 states between 1977 and the present day. There are millions more obituaries in the historical newspapers, as well. Genealogists can cross-reference these obituaries with over 87.5 million and growing weekly Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records, which have been enhanced with exact age and city, county and state information that genealogists can easily copy and save to their files.

Digital facsimiles of printed items from Historical Books
The Historical Books collection includes digitized versions of all available books, pamphlets and other publications printed in America from 1801 to 1900. This makes it easy to search rare, fragile genealogies, local histories, cards, charts and other printed items online.

A variety of essential records from Historical Documents
The Historical Documents collection features the entire American State Papers (1789-1838) and all items of genealogical value—over 40% of the publications—from the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1984). Genealogists can research government and military records, casualty lists, widows’ claims, military pension requests, bounty land warrant actions, dispute resolutions, land grant applications, orphans’ petitions and much more.

Download a comprehensive search tutorial (Powerpoint format)

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Search current and archived coverage of issues, events, people, government, sports and more with the largest collection of full-text U.S. newspapers.  Includes staff-written articles, obituaries, editorials, announcements, real estate and other sections.  This comprehensive resource offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from news sources nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of more than 1,890 U.S. news sources and news video clips.

• Ability to search a single newspaper, a select group of titles or the entire collection
• An intuitive, map-based interface and powerful, user-friendly search options
• Complete electronic editions of more than 1,890 full-text newspapers nationwide and searchable news video clips
• Comprehensive news coverage at the local, state, regional and national levels
• Provides 24/7 online access to tens of millions of fully searchable current and archived articles
• New content added daily
• New enhancements to explore timelines and maximize results

Download a comprehensive search tutorial (Powerpoint format)

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Fold3^™ History and Genealogy Archives combines original historical documents and personal histories to create a unique historical and genealogical resource. These digital images of records, preserved in the National Archives and other regional archives, represent a growing collection of historic documents—most never before available on the Internet. The collection features millions of records available from a content partnership with The National Archives.

Fold3 History and Genealogy Archives features:

• More than 50 million pages of historical documents
• Census records from 1860 and 1930
• Documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, and U.S. Presidents
• Historical newspapers
• Naturalization documents
• Matthew Brady collection of Civil War photos
• UFO documents from 1947 – 1969
• State Records
• City Directories
• And much more…

Title Lists: 

Front page of the Washington Post for June 29, 1914 View Sample

Petitions for Naturalization View Sample

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World News Digest brings together seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This unique archival record of domestic and international news, unrivaled for its depth, breadth, and accuracy, covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. World News Digest is updated twice weekly and includes
a searchable hourly newsfeed. Its more than 1 million internal hyperlinks allow researchers to follow a story ahead in time and back in time, and lead to just the background information they need to understand its significance.

Coverage

• 1940-present

Information Type:

• Citations? No
• Abstracts? No
• Full Text? Yes

Frequency of Updates:

• Weekly

Features:

• Ahead in Time” and “Back in Time” links for a complete chronological chain of events
• Timelines of top stories
• Key background information—primary source documents, profiles of newsmakers, countries, and issues
• Research features and in-depth coverage guides on high-interest topics
• Searchable newsfeed, updated hourly
• Newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons with discussion questions
• World Almanac® content and full Encyclopedia
• Citations display in MLA, 7th Edition style, with APA guidelines

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online brings you complete online access to all volumes of Gale’s award-wining reference set, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the main series, as well as Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. Featuring comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, you’ll find profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works.

This collection is comprised of:
•Dictionary of Literary Biography vols. 1- through present
•Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series (50 vols.)
•Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook (23 vols.)

The Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series concentrates on major literary figures with in-depth essays and related images such as manuscript pages and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors’ lives. The Documentary series allows for further study of major literary figures through critical and biographical source materials.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series is annual compendium which includes original material covering a given year’s literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and children’s books we well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature.

How to Search DLB

Basic Search allows you to search on specific word or words occurring within key fields of data, including author and title, or within the full text of documents, or by author name. You may also choose to limit your search to entries published in a particular year or range of years and/or to entries published within a particular Dictionary of Literary Biography series.

Advanced Search allows you to conduct a search using a variety of criteria; this enables you to retrieve very specific results. You can search on specific word or words occurring within key fields of data, and within the full text of documents, as well as other searchable fields of information.

The Browse Authors feature allows you to browse an alphabetical list of authors covered within the database. Selecting an author launches a search that returns a list of results containing all of the entries within the Dictionary of Literary Biography series published on the author selected.

The Browse Volumes feature allows you to browse an alphabetical list of volumes and parts of volumes within the database. Selecting a volume or part title retrieves the Inside this Volume page for that volume or part. You can sort this list in descending publication date. You can also filter the list by Dictionary of Literary Biography series (Main, Documentary, and Yearbook) or by subject.