History

American Indian History Online 

Meet the important and interesting figures of Ameridan Indian history

Online reference resources and research tools accessible at all learning levels.

Newspapers with obituaries covering nearly 100 years of Suffolk County history.

Elizabethan World Reference Library

This collection covers the broad sweep of the culture of the times, from Elizabeth's court to rural life, and from the New World explorations to the remarkable flowering of literature and drama for which the era is renowned.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

Middle Ages-History-Civilization, Medieval-Biography-Middle Ages, 500-1500

Encyclopedia of World Biography

This authoritative encyclopedia has over 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods.

In-depth coverage of the stories, characters and themes most-studied by students in a five-volume eBook.

New York Amsterdam News became one of the nation’s leading black newspapers and one of New York’s most influential black-owned institutions.

Harlem Renaissance   

This reference guide presents a comprehensive overview of the events and people that comprised this rich period in American History in the early twentieth century.

 Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion 

This encyclopedia surveys clothing, body adornment, and examines the origins of clothing, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress. It also presents information on representative costumes from a wide variety of historical eras.