History & Biography

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HeritageQuest

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Gale in Context: Biography

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NCPedia

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Gale Literature Resource Center

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ProQuest Central

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  • ArchiveGrid

    Access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, and cemetery records.

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  • Credo Reference

    A premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.

  • Criminal Justice Database

    Research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.

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  • DigitalNC

    Explore the history and culture of North Carolina through original materials from cultural heritage repositories across the state.

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  • Gale Ebooks

    Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

  • Gale in Context: Biography

    Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.

  • Gale Literary Sources

    Combines Literature Resource Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.

  • Gale Literature Resource Center

    Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

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  • HeritageQuest

    Treasury of American genealogical sources: unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Includes historical census, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and more.

  • Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection

    Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection. 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.

  • History Study Center

    A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.

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  • NCPedia

    Information about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.

  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries

    Women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950. Includes writings by Abigail Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Dorothea L. Dix, Julia Ward Howe, and more.

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  • ProQuest Central

    General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

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