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Places to get started:

• ABC Clio History Databases
• Grolier
• World Book
• Gale
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library has 300 ebooks you can search
  • Gale Student Resource Center Gold is good for getting background information

The best sources for locating information on Primary Sources are:

MVHS databases:

• ABC-Clio
• AP Photo Archives
• Proquest Historical Newspapers

Other Recommended Websites:

• American Memory @ Library of Congress
• Prints and Photographs Online Catalog @ Library of Congress
• Veterans History Project @ Library of Congress
• National Archives
• Geography of Slavery in Virginia
• UNC Documenting the American South
• US Holocaust Museum
• Avalon Project at Yale University
• History Matters
• Smithsonian Photographs