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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries -
Alexander Street Press
Contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a battles database, and more in a 100,000-page collection. The materials are indexed with dozens of search fields, and there are 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images.
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American Mosaic -
Greenwood Publishing
  Provides access to two multicultural resources, The African American Experience and The Latino American Experience, with ebooks, interviews, maps, images, audio, music files, and timelines. Teacher resources available.
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Black Thought & Culture -
Alexander Street Press
Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
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Daily Life Online -
Greenwood Publishing
Combines Daily Life through History, Daily Life Premium, and World Folklore and Folklife databases to
provide full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures,
and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present. Teacher resources available.
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In the First Person -
Alexander Street Press
Indexes oral histories in English from thousands of web repositories and archives, and includes full text links for licensed Alexander Street Press databases.
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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800 -1926 -
Gale Cengage Learning
Comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises containing 10 million pages of information from 21,000 works. Includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more, all separated into 99 subject areas.
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Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600 - 1926 -
Gale Cengage Learning
Contains over 10,000 items (about 2,000,000 pages), including unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments reprinted or bound as separate publications; and official, separately published records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The literature include sensational accounts of murder, adultery, divorce, and duels along with important cases of constitutional law, commercial law, impeachment, treason, and other topics.
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories -
Alexander Street Press
Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories describing what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries -
Alexander Street Press
Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years - approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.
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Student Resource Center - Gold -
Gale Cengage Learning
Contains curriculum-targeted full-text primary documents, biographies, essays, critical analyses, magazines and newspapers articles, graphics, audio and video clips. Aimed at middle school and high school students. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module. Teacher resources available.
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