History Reference Source

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Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21st century, History Reference Center is a research database containing full-text journals, magazines, reference books and thousands of primary source documents. In addition to full-text historical reference books, primary source documents and biographies, History Reference Center includes full text and selective content from more than 140 leading history journals. It also includes multimedia content including more than 45,000 images.

This database is available to all Michigan residents through Mel.org.

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