America : History and Life

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Description: Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Contains almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from 2,000 journals published worldwide since 1964. For a selected list of documents relating to United States and Canadian history, see:

• 100 Milestone Documents
• American Journeys : Eyewitness Accounts of North American Exploration
• Berlin Airlift: Documents, Images, History
• Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive
• Canada's Digital Collections
• Charters of Freedom (National Archives)
• Chronology of US Historical Documents
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (GPO)
• Crisis of the Union (Civil War)
• Cuban Missile Crisis and its Aftermath
• Dred Scott Digital Project
• ECO: Early Canadiana Online
• Famous Speeches
• The Founders' Constitution
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) Documents Online
• Free Speech Movement (FSM) Digital Archives at U.C. Berkeley
• Federalist Papers
• The Fur Trade in Canada
• Journals of Lewis and Clark
• Lincoln/Net : Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Linus Pauling Research Notebooks
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
• Nixon White House Tapes C-SPAN
• Papers of John Jay
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project
• Salem Witch Trials
• September 11 ( 9/11 ) Digital Archive
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
• Thomas A. Edison Papers
• Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
• United States in 1800 by Henry Adams

Subject(s)
History, Genealogy & Archives
Military Science & National Security
Subscription Database List

Related Databases
Accessible Archives
America's Historical Newspapers - Series I, II, III
American Periodicals Series
Annals of American History
CQ Online Editions: Historic Documents Series
Declassified Documents Reference System
Early American Imprints, Series I Evans 1639-1800
HarpWeek
History Reference Online
Humanities E-Book
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II III, IV, Life Sciences, Biological Sciences, Complement and Health & General Science
Project MUSE
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Retrospective Indexes from Wilson
Sabin Americana 1500-1926
United States Congressional Serial Set

Related Links
Avalon Project
Making of America : Cornell ** http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ **
Making of America : Michigan ** http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ **
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