Researching the Decades

Start with these databases:

• Daily Life Online
Explore how others lived and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours. Content is enhanced with new books, articles, images, maps, primary documents, and more.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
Contains the full text of hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects, including history, business, medicine, science and humanities. Includes tables of content, indexes and illustrations. (Guided Tour)
Tip: Click "History" to get a title list that includes:
   American Decades
   Primary Sources
   Roaring Twenties Reference Library
   St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• History Study Center
Primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day, perfect for student reports.

Additional databases to search:

•  American History from ABC-CLIO
From the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines, investigate the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution.
• American History from Facts on File
Provides more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history.
• America's Newspapers
Full-text articles from more than 600 U.S. newspapers.
• Biography Resource Center
More than 300,000 biographies from respected sources, for individuals from around the world, throughout history to the present. (Guided Tour)
• Chicago Tribune
Coverage of the full-text paper from 1985 to Current.
• Chicago Tribune, Historical (1849-1985)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. This collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
• Chicago Tribune Historical Archive
Images and selected full text of historical international, national, and regional events from 1870 forward. Full text of death notices and obituaries.
• CQ Almanac
Congressional reporting in one, easy-to-use resource with original analysis and data on major legislation for each Congressional session back to 1945.
• Curriculum Resource Center
Student-oriented database, including historical timelines, 400 maps, science and anatomy diagrams, science experiments, mathematics exercises, and physical education and health topics.
• Elibrary Plus
Find complete text of newspaper and newswire stories, magazine articles, reference books, pictures, maps and radio/TV transcripts on current topics. Use the natural language or advanced search feature.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Complete encyclopedia with related Internet links, best web sites rated by EB editors, Britannica's Lives and the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
• Historical Statistics of the US
Online edition of the recently updated five volume print compendium of historical statistics. Contains over 37,000 data series, on wide-ranging topics. Users may create customized tables and spreadsheets.
• New York Times, Historical (1857-2005)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. This collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
• Newsbank Newsfile (1986-current)
Articles from more than 500 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts.
• World Book Online
Start here for background research on any topic. Articles are updated with current events information, useful links on the Internet, a monthly calendar of important dates and a Today in History feature.