When defining the scope of your History Day project, it is best to begin with general reference resources, like encyclopedias, that can provide background information for your chosen topic.
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World Book Online Reference Center
Every article from the print encyclopedia enhanced with state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed web sites, and more.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. The database also contains various images and brief biographies.
EBSCO MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. It also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an image collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
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