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The primary purpose of the History
Resource Center: U.S. is to provide students, their
teachers, and library patrons with a single place to begin
researching the vast topic of U.S. history from 1900 to the
present.
The History Resource Center: U.S. includes some
material from Gale's proprietary
reference content, including
American Decades CD-ROM, American Eras, DISCovering U.S. History,
and Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations.
The History
Resource Center: U.S. also delivers full-text periodicals,
newspapers, primary source documents, radio/television transcripts,
professional development tools, and student research tools.
Content Includes:
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Approximately 100,000 pages of more than 1000 primary
documents, many with corresponding facsimile pages
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Thousands of reference documents from acclaimed
Gale Group sources
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Nearly 100
scholarly full-text
journals,
as well as citations from 180 titles within the ISI Arts
& Humanities Citation Index
- Coordination with
ABC-Clio allows a search from the History Resource
Center: U.S. of its vast history data
- More
than 2,000 images and maps, including 30 historical maps
courtesy of Yale University
Searching
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Basic Search |
Allows users to search on specific
words of every document within the History Resource
Center: U.S. to come up with a more focused results
list. |
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Subject Search |
Provides an interactive subject guide
listing concepts that match your search term. Users can
browse through the subject guide and to broaden or narrow
their search. Clicking on a subject term will launch a
search for documents on that topic. |
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Advanced Search |
Allows you to narrow your search to
specific fields, document types, and/or dates. |
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Person Search |
Searches the History Resource
Center: U.S. for documents related to the person(s)
selected |
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Dictionaries |
Gives you access to two invaluable
reference tools: Merriam-Webster's 10th Collegiate
Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's
Geographical Dictionary |
You may access History Resource Center: U.S.
from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.
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