History: Resources exploring World and U.S. history.

Maine East online databases are accessible to you 24/7. To access these resources off campus just use your STUDENT USERNAME (everything before the @s207.org) and PASSWORD.  If you have any questions, or can't access these databases, please contact Ms. Aasi or Ms. Cochran.
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​A user-friendly, general reference tool to support every range of user. Provides access to full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, books, and transcript titles, and includes a collection of over 7 million maps, pictures, weblinks, and audio/video files.

​A centralized search engine and record-finding tool; provides access to thousands of local archives and digital images, including primary source documents and over 100,000 maps, photos, and letters.

Explore historical events, social and consumer history, economics, literature, and technology. Delivers complete runs of The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune, all issues are reproduced in their entirety.  Title coverage spans from 1847 to 2015.

​Collection of digitized primary and secondary sources covering global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference and rare books, journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, maps, government documents, timelines, transcripts of historical speeches, images, and videos. Information presented skews towards a westernized/Euro-centric perspective.

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Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.

​Cover-to-cover full text for 40+ U.S. and international newspapers. Also contains selective full text for 330+ regional U.S. newspapers, as well as full text television and radio news transcripts.

Offers a comprehensive, contextual, and media-rich overview of United States history, covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. 

Traces global history from ancient societies to modern conflicts. Includes primary sources, biographies, reference overviews, videos, and articles to chronicle the events, people, and topics central to the story of humankind.