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The full collection of resources from Salem Press. Includes Critical Insights, Critical Surveys, and Introduction to Literary Context series. Also contains Great Events from History, Great Lives from History, and Careers series. Funded by SCF.
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"Provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror." Funded by SCF Group License.
Full text articles from the New York Times, from 1851 - 2017. Funded by FLVC.
750+ history reference books, encyclopedias, and the full-text of 60 history magazines. This database contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies, 12,000 photos and maps; and 87 hours film and video. Funded by FLVC.
Includes hundreds of primary source historical U.S. newspapers published between 1690 and the 20th Century. Complete content of each issue, including news stories, illustrations, advertisements, cartoons and more. Funded by SCF.
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Manatee County Public Libraries: To access electronic resources, you need to get a Library Card. Log in with your 14 digit public library barcode and PIN. You may need to call the public library to set up your PIN. Not all databases available online.
Sarasota County Public Libraries: Digital Library. To access electronic resources, you need to get a Library Card.
Florida Electronic Library search Florida resources as well as a large number of online databases. Log in with your 14 digit public library barcode and PIN. You may need to call the public library to set up your PIN.
Library of Congress - Primary digitized documents from American History and related collections.