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History General Subject Guide

History General Subject Guide: Resources

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Gale eBooks password: learn
Infobase eBooks This link opens in a new window user: westonhs password: wildcats
5,000 ebooks suited for research in all subjects. Especially good for US History, Government and English.

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Kanopy user: weston password: wildcats. Once you're signed in you can create an individual account to save lists.
Full length videos, documentaries and instructional videos.

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History databases, A-Z

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window password: wildcats
The grandaddy of academic databases. Use this once you have narrowed down your topic a bit to find articles from newspapers, magazines, video, podcasts and academic journals dated 1980-present.
American Indian History This link opens in a new window username: westonhs password: wildcats
Info about more than 600 Native American groups and over 15,000 years of American Indian culture and history.
Ancient and Medieval History This link opens in a new window username: westonhs password: wildcats
Focuses on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Islamic Empire from prehistory through the 1500s.
Biography in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window password: wildcats
Over 500,000 brief, authoritative biographies.
Britannica School This link opens in a new window user: weston pass: wildcats
The best place to start your research. Authoritative entries help you understand the scope of your topic and generate keywords. Choose your reading level. Translation available.
Culturegrams This link opens in a new window username: weston password: wildcats
Geography, maps, history and cultural information about all countries.
Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window password: wildcats
Excellent place to start researching world history papers with current events themes.
Kanopy user: weston password: wildcats. Once you're signed in you can create an individual account to save lists.
Full length videos, documentaries and instructional videos.
Scholastic Go! This link opens in a new window user: westonhigh pass: grolier
Infobase eBooks This link opens in a new window user: westonhs password: wildcats
5,000 ebooks suited for research in all subjects. Especially good for US History, Government and English.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window sign up for ecard at Boston Public Library website for access
Papers published in academic journals on tightly focused topics. Access is through Boston Public Library. Apply for an ecard below.
JSTOR ecard application This link opens in a new window Apply for your BPL ecard here to access JSTOR.
New York Times Article Archive This link opens in a new window pass: wildcats
Full text articles from 1980-present. This doesn't include photos, video and audio from online edition. For that, go to NYT digital edition.
Wall Street Journal user: wsj@weston.org pass: wildcats#1
US History (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window pass: wildcats
Primary sources, journal articles and multimedia. One-stop shopping!
World Almanac This link opens in a new window user: westonhs pass: wildcats
Quick facts and statistics on countries, media, sports, economies, technology--and just about anything else you can think of. A classic.
World History (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window pass: wildcats
A broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.

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Last Updated: Apr 11, 2024 2:32 PM
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Subjects: History

Tags: ap world, government, modern world history, US History, world history