Research Guides: #History: Overviews &amp; Starting Points

Background Information

Issues & Controversies in History This link opens in a new window
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Explores debates and conflicts in US and world history, as seen by key players or as interpreted by historians. Balanced articles provide pro and con arguments on hundreds of controversies, and each article is centered on original documents (primary sources).
American History (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
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Provides topic pages and overviews for historical events, daily life in different eras, historical controversies, and multimedia supplements as well as primary sources. Covers the colonial/revolutionary period and forward.
Provides a comprehensive range of information: topic introductions, biographies, primary sources, videos and slideshows, images, timelines, and maps and graphs.
Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive biographical resource of over 350,000 people from throughout history and around the world.
Search all Gale databases at once with Gale PowerSearch.

US History Scene
U.S. History Scene is a multimedia education website composed of historians and educators at over fifty universities dedicated to teaching the American past in a global context.
Making Sense of Evidence
“Making Sense of Documents” provide strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. “Scholars in Action” segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources, allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis.
eHistory
Browse by era, topic, and region to locate biographies, articles, oral histories, images, and more. Run by The Ohio State University.