HS-History

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**History Databases**

ActiveHistory Excellent resource for history students grades 7-12. Games, interactive activities, and study guides

History Encyclopedias. Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history from mid-15th century to the present**.**
 * [|Ancient and Medieval History Online]**.

Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Maya. Ancient Persia. Alexander the Great, Medieval West Africa, Medieval Islamic World, Mongols, Incas, Aztecs.
 * [|Great Empires of the Past]**

[|Map as History] from [| home]

[|Modern World History]History Encyclopedias explore the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

General Databases
[|Advanced Placement Source]
 * Designed to meet the needs of high school students in AP of IB courses
 * 5,550+ full-text academic journals and magazines

[|Image Quest] Two million plus rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world (DK Images, Getty, National Geographic, et al).

[|JSTOR]
 * 1,000+ academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources in all academic areas.

[|Global Issues in Context]
 * Analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural
 * Focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues.
 * Detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies
 * Overviews summarizing background information, historical context, and contemporary stances
 * Expert perspectives analyzing an issue or event through multiple aspects
 * Reference documents providing background information on all issues and nations
 * Full-text international magazines, academic journals, news source, and primary sources
 * Statistics, including interactive graphs, tables, and charts

[|MAS Ultra]
 * 500 popular, high school magazines
 * 360 full text reference books
 * 85,670 biographies
 * 107,000+ primary source documents
 * 510,000 photos, maps & flags

[|Points of View]
 * Full-text database providing students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
 * 280+ topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

History in Dispute Books

 * Learn about History in Dispute books [|here.]
 * View list of History in Dispute in ASW Library [|here].

Web Sites
[|Best History Web Sites]
 *  Annotated links to 1200+ web sites
 * History activities, history games, history quizzes, and more

[|Cold War, CNN Perspectives]  24-episodes narrated by Kenneth Branagh A comprehensive history that examines the key events of the arc of the Soviet Union, from its birth to its fall, and provides a thorough analysis of what was going on behind closed doors. Informed by the stories of 500 eyewitnesses--from citizens and soldiers to historians and statesmen--and strengthened by painstaking reconstruction of archival historical film footage, CNN's Cold War is a heroic undertaking and a sweeping chronicle of the world's most fragile decades.

[|Interactive European History Map] 900 BC to Present

 Internet Modern History Sourcebook - Great collection of sources from Fordham University

 Nazi Germany Propaganda Archive - One of the largest collections of primary sources relating to Nazi Germany from Calvin College

 Primary Sources [//A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study.//] Click on link above to learn read how to use and analyses of primary sources in an historical investigation.

[|For Teachers]  Resources for Teachers from Library of Congress. //"Bringing the power of primary sources into the classroom."//