DATABASES : March 2010

Resource of the month: History Resource Center

 

    Are you looking for the five "W's" in history: Who, What, Where, and Why? History Resource Center is the place for you to start your investigation of history. History Resource Center - offers primary documents, secondary reference materials, speeches, memoirs, diaries, letters, telegrams, journal articles, historical websites and much more. History Resource Center is a rich of repository information. Whether you have domestic or world history questions, History Resource Center may have an answer for you.

    Are you writing a report for school? Interested in scholarly historic information on famous U.S. or other world leaders or events? Try History Resource Center.

    Looking for primary documents on:

    • President Nixon
      Resignation Speech
    • Churchill
      Iron Curtain Address
    • Saddam Hussein
      Hussein's Speech upon Withdrawal from Kuwait
      , February 26, 1991
    • Alexander Scammell
      A Soldiers Love Letter, June 1777

    Researching a historic world leader?

    • Nelson Mandela
    • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Just want to browse a certain period in history? Checkout the chronological historic listings on:

    • Prehistory - 1451 Pre - Columbian American - Indigenous civilizations flourish and perish; the slave trade.
    • Post - Cold War year - Communism fall; Clinton administration and Balkan conflict; second Bush administration, 911 attack and wars in Afghanistan.

    Check out History Resource Center and you will be amazed at what you can learn.

    For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo and Erie County Public Library card number.