Your assignment is due tomorrow and you need to find more information about your topic and at least one more primary source.  The History and Biography databases are a great place to get information on people, places, and events that will help you write an outstanding paper. Don't forget to check our catalog for additional books and videos. We have resources on our shelves and our staff is ready to help you find the information you need.

America's Historical Newspapers Access using your TSCPL library card
A custom collection of select titles from 1690-1922. Includes the Topeka Weekly Capital from 1884-1898.  

American Experience
A companion to television's longest-running history series, this site provides special features, photos, timelines and maps that complement each program. 

American History - ABC-CLIO In-Library Use Only
Choose this link for American History resources for the scholar, student, teacher, and librarian in universities and secondary schools. 

American Memory
Created by the Library of Congress to provide public access to over 7 million historical items including unique and rare documents, photographs, films and audio recordings. 

American Presidents
Biographical and historical information on all the American Presidents and contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming from C-SPAN

BBC Ancient History
This website offers links to sites on countries and cultures associated with "ancient" history (i.e. Romans, Vikings, Egypt, etc.) Hosted by the BBC's Internet branch, it has good, reputable links for the average person. 

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Searchable directory of members of Congress from 1774.  

Biography.com
Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present. 

Biography Resource Center - Gale Group Access using your TSCPL library card
Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender. 

Cutler's History of Kansas
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas was first published in 1883 and includes chapters by county and event and more. 

Digitized Kansas Maps
A collection of over 325 digitized maps of Kansas from 1556-1900, presented by the Special Collections Department at Wichita State University. 

History Channel
This is the cable history channel: what happened on this day in history; featured subjects; good source for finding a subject. 

History Gateway at Kansas
Provides links to dozens of Kansas history websites.

History of the U.S. House of Representatives
This site includes biographies of the more than 11,500 individuals who have served in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate since 1789 as well as, those Members who served during the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1789.  

History Resource Center US
The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history. 

HyperHistory
HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps. 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
This website offers a wide range of website links to over 20 topics covering activities from 500 a.d.- 1500 a.d. The site includes links to country topics (i.e. Germany in medieval times, England in medieval times). 

Kansas Collection
KanColl is packed with primary source documents - including letters, diaries and photographs - that document the history of Kansas. 

Kansas History
This site, a project of the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas and the Kansas State Historical Society,  features online publications and resources on the history of Kansas, as well as extensive information on each historical marker in Kansas. This site is also linked to the "Towns" and "Counties" of Kansas that have additional information.   

Kansas History Online
The goal of this website is to provide an encyclopedic array of articles touching on every key aspect of Kansas state history no later than the sesquicentennial of Kansas statehood in January 2011.  

Kansas State Historical Society
Find materials and information pertaining to Kansas history. 

Making of America
Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

Nobel's E-Museum
The Nobel Foundation awards the Nobel Prize; the first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. Get biographical information on Laureates. 

Readers Guide Retrospective Access using your TSCPL library card
This database contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Rulers
Heads of state and government, and chronicle of relevant events related to them.  

United States Historical Census Data Browser
U.S. Population and economic data between 1790 and 1960.  

U.S. Civil War Center
Links index to the American Civil War.