Mrs. Jacy Nichols- Library Media Specialist

Nichols@wlake.org

 

Presidential Election 2008 Information

SOCIAL STUDIES

ELECTRONIC DATABASES- Requires Username and Password

AccuNet Photo Archive  Historical and current photos and images from Associated Press

Annals of American History. More than 2,000 primary source documents and 700 pieces of multimedia from Encyclopedia Britannica.

Biography Reference Bank -- Articles about more than a half-million people, most in full text, from around the world, both living and dead.

Country Reports Provides unique, culturally-rich content, with over 26,000 pages of content covering a wide-range of topics including statistical data and cultural information.

Gale/Infotrac  Multi-database with biographical and subject oriented information.

Proquest Historical Newspapers Fulltext articles from the New York Times dating back to 1850.

AMERICAN HISTORY

The American Presidency

Digital History

Fifty States

First Ladies Library

The History Channel

History, Its Happening Check out the “History Links”

History and Politics Out Loud Speeches and other audio files

Presidents of the United States

US History.Org

GENEALOGY

Center for Immigration Studies

Ellis Island Information

U.S. Census Bureau

The National Archives

GOVERNMENT

Famous Trials

FedWorld - Search for cases at the bottom, or search for subjects.

Find Law Constitution

OYEZ- US  Supreme Court- Try the link that says, "Opinions," to find court opinions.

Justice Learning

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Political Cartoons- Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index on msnbc

State of Ohio Government

US House of Representatives

US Senate

The White House.Gov

WORLD HISTORY

CIA World Fact Book

Country Studies From the Library of Congress

The History Channel

Portals to the World

 

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