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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the English language and a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 280,000 entries from across the English-speaking world.

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Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to History.

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An online informational resource containing articles on various topics covering all many branches of knowledge.

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A versatile, multi-disciplinary audio-visual database with more than 20,000 films spanning all academic subject matter.

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World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras explores ancient civilizations, dynasties, and empires in the ancient and medieval world from prehistory through to the beginning of the Renaissance.

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The African American Experience: The American Mosaic provides a comprehensive survey of African American history and its heartbreaking struggles, major movements—political, social, artistic, and literary—and most notable events and legislative reform.

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U.S. History In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History.

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Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History brings hand-curated material from the experts at the Smithsonian directly to classrooms and students.

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World History In Context reaches back to the ancient world — and forward to today's headlines — to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race.

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Biographies, primary sources, maps, graphs and articles on a wide range of topics in American History.

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Biographies, primary sources, maps, graphs and articles on a wide range of topics in Ancient and Medieval history.

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Oyez (pronounced OH-yay) offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full-text Supreme Court opinions (through Justia). Oyez also provides detailed information on every justice throughout the Court’s history and offers a panoramic tour of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of several justices.

America's Historical Newspapers makes it easy for students to search and browse hundreds of U.S. newspapers published from 1690 through the 20th Century, including titles from all 50 present states.

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Scientific learning modules, interactive experiments, videos, diagrams, biographies and articles.

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Nat Geo Kids inspires young adventurers to explore the world through geography and science.

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Provides facts, photos and articles from states and countries.

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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion is a reference project that brings together scholars from around the globe to explore the practice, philosophy, influence, and lived experience of religion

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