American
History Online Spans more than 500 years of political,
military, social, and cultural history, highlighting
the important people and events of the American experience.
To use American History Online at
home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.
Biography
Resource Center Use this Gale (InfoTrac)
database to research important people throughout history!
To use Biography Resource
Center at home, enter a library card number
from Fay School (see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder) or any public library in Massachusetts
in the box below. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.
WEB SITES
American
Memory American Memory is a gateway to
rich primary source materials relating to the history
and culture of the United States. This Library of
Congress site offers more than 7 million digital items
from more than 100 historical collections. Click SEARCH
and type CIVIL WAR to browse, or type a more specific
search term. Gettysburg
Address.
100
Milestone Documents Consider the rights and responsibilities
of citizens in our democracy, by exploring 100 influential
documents of American history from 1776 to 1965. View
the actual documents and transcripts.
New
York City Draft Riots of 1863 This excerpt from the book "In
the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York
City, 1626-1863" by Leslie M. Harris. describes
the July 1863 riots in New York City that followed
the enactment of a new conscription lottery law.
Home
of the American Civil War Information and photos of important
people, battles and maps. Learn about the army, the
navy, medical care, and conditions for soldiers. Be
sure to look at the "Civil War Potpourri"
sectionwhich contains many diverse subjects from boys
in the war to the ethnic make-up of the troops.
The
Crisis of the Union An Electronic Archive of Documents
about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the
US Civil War, containing "pamphlets, books, broadsides,
cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print
memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880."
The
Southern Homefront "The Southern Homefront,
1861-1865, documents Southern life during the
Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to
create a viable nation state as evidenced in both
private and public life."
Core
Documents of U.S. Democracy To provide American citizens direct
online access to the basic Federal Government documents
that define our democratic society, a core group of
current and historical government publications is
available for free, permanent, public access.
The
Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Avalon Project mounts digital
documents relevent to the fields of Law, History,
Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. There
is a wealth of PRIMARY SOURCE material at Avalon.
Typing CIVIL WAR in the search box yields many results,
so use more specific search terms.
ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Britannica
Online The complete Encyclopædia Britannica (high school), Compton's by Britannica (middle school) and Britannica Elementary (elementary school) and the Web's Best
Sites.
To use Britannica Online at home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.
Grolier
Online A complete reference library: Encyclopedia
Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New
Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science,
Lands and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.
To use Grolier Online at home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.