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Databases require a Syosset library card.  If you do not have a library card, you can download the application or explore the recommended websites.  Select journals, magazines and newspapers are also available in print at the library.  See what's available.

HistoryRSS

Contains event and topic overviews, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources and timeline entries covering world history from the mid-15th century to the present.

Contains a complete archive of World News Digest from 1940, updated weekly, plus a live Reuters newsfeed, updated hourly. Features include: Country Profiles, Key People, Key Events and Key Issues.

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles, including scholarly journals and news media, on a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

For middle and high school students, provides information from core curriculum areas using reference material, full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including video and audio clips.

Created specifically for middle school students, Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more. Research In Context provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. 

Gale's U.S. History in Context is the premier online resource providing a complete overview of America's past and covers the most studied events, decades, conflicts, war, political and cultural movements, and people.  

This database contains coverage of history for the last 5,000 years chronicling the rise and fall of cultures and societies.

This database of primary sources in American History provides in–depth analysis of historic documents from the colonial times to the 21st century. Analysis includes document overview and context, about the author, and an explanation and analysis of the document, its audience and impact. It also includes images, biographies and history and event overviews.

This database provides a deeper understanding of what life was like in America after the civil war and how it compares statistically to life today.

In the 1910s explores American life in the 1910s.  This new database is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree. The richly-illustrated text provides an interesting way to study a truly unique time in American history.

This is Who We Were in the 1920s explores American life in the 1920s. This database is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree. The richly-illustrated text provides an interesting way to study a truly unique time in American history.

A companion resource to the 1940 Census recently released by the US National Archives this provides the reader with a deeper understanding of what life was like in America in 1940 and how it compares statistically to life today. A wide range of data from the 1940 and 2010 Census are put side-by-side so users can quickly and easily see differences and similarities over these past 70 years.

This database provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day to day life in America in the 1950s. This new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree. The richly-illustrated text provides an interesting way to study a truly unique time in American history.

This database explores the 1960s a truly tumultuous and pivotal decade in our nation. Readers will uncover what life was like for ordinary Americans as they lived through a Social Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War, all in the span of 10 short years.