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Geography & History
History Channel, The
Featured video clips, articles, This Day in History, timelines, speeches, discussion boards, a video gallery and more. Search by keywords or browse by topic.
History Place,The
Feature articles and primary documents on various eras of American and world history, photos and speeches of the week, a monthly calendar highlighting historical events, point-of-view essays, a tourism guide for historical attractions.
HyperHistory.com
An ongoing project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps. Includes military, political, scientific, cultural and religious facts and events as well as a comprehensive eBook survey of world history.
Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons
ABC-CLIO - History Reference Online eBook.
Nationmaster
This compendium of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD strives to be “the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on everything from soldiers to wall plug voltages.” Compare countries by a wide variety of fact-based and statistical categories, such as agriculture, crime, democracy, disasters, economy, education, industry, mortality, transportation, and more.
Places in the News
The Library of Congress’ Geography and Map Division presents up-to-date maps that locate areas relating to situations covered by news organizations with links to additional information. Featured places change with changes in current events news coverage.
PowerSearch Featured
The Gale PowerSearch platform offers comprehensive access to authoritative reference, periodical and primary source information. Select from a list of Gale databases. Search multiple databases simultaneously with a single query. PowerSearch features include: advanced searching, bookmarks, search results, quick search and document delivery in email, print and download formats.
Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
Renaissance-era topics most studied in high school world history, art, literature, economics, and science curriculum. Includes entries on a range of topics, including Florence, Galileo, heraldry, Medici family, opera, piracy, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others. Includes a master chronology with topical timelines, a bibliography with age-appropriate further reading sources, and a comprehensive index.
Salem History
This database, which covers a full spectrum of American and world historical events and figures, includes the following eBooks: Milestone Documents in American History, Milestone Documents of African American History, Encyclopedia of American Immigration, The Thirties, Forties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties and Nineties in America, Great Lives from History: (The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries), Great Events from History: (The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The 17th, 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries and Modern Scandals) and the Historical Encyclopedia of American Business.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina
Fire insurance maps showing building and street locations. Also provides information on building size and construction.
SIRS KnowledgeSource
A combination of databases providing full-text articles from a wide variety of sources for a diverse age range of users. Subject areas include the social sciences, government, sciences, the arts, and others.
South Carolina Department of Archives and History
A comprehensive South Carolina archival collection covering more than 325 years. Also has an online records index of many of the holdings, some also located in the South Carolina Room.
South Carolina Historical Society
South Carolina's oldest private repository of South Carolina history.
Sporting News, The: The Vault
This archive includes histories of the Super Bowl, the NBA finals, the Final Four, the World Series, the Stanley Cup, and the World Cup. It also includes “scrapbooks” of articles and photos about famous athletes as well as other feature articles covering some of the greatest moments in sports history.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
More than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.
Timeline of Art History
A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world that extends from prehistory to the present day as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
Traditional Festivals: a Multicultural Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO - History Reference Online eBook.
U.S. History in Context
With comprehensive coverage of more than 50 of the most-studied topics in U.S. history, this database provides access to nearly 5,000 primary historical documents, articles from more than 95 reference titles, and 613,000+ periodical articles from respected publications like Newsweek, American Heritage and The Historian covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
World Art Treasures
A collection of over 100,000 slides of by art historian Jacques-Edouard Berger with links to lectures and itineraries, essays, audio lectures. Browse by country, artist, or period.
World History in Context
World History in Context draws upon themes and trends from current history curriculums and World History textbooks to offer students and researchers comprehensive, award-winning reference content, academic and scholarly journals, as well as 1700+ of primary sources, images, and maps. Includes coverage of the 20th century.