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History

Credo Reference
Reference books; 66,000 art, science & medical images; 90,000 atlas pages. Create customized exportable data tables; visual concept maps of search results.

ebrary
Over 20,000 online books covering all NSCC academic disciplines including Nursing and Allied Health, Computer Technology, Business, Criminal Justice, College Success, Testing Guides and Career Information.

Films on Demand
Over 6,200 full-length programs and 65,800 video segments streamed on demand from Films for the Humanities, BBC, CBC, PBS and others. Subjects include humanities, science, business, health, technical education, careers and counseling. Watch an entire episode, or just one indexed segment keyed to your search.

Global Issues in Context
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.

Issues and Controversies in American History
Information on the great debates of American History. It captures the passions and arguments of the Americans who decided the crucial questions in our nation's history.

JSTOR
497 scholarly titles in arts & sciences (JSTOR A&S II + III), and Language & Literature.

Libguides
Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!

Massachusetts History Online
Full-text articles from almost 50 sources directly relating to Mass. history.

Military & Government Collection
current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

Military and Intelligence Collection
Over 400 journals covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs.

Religion & Philosophy Collection (from EBSCO)
World religions, biblical studies, religious history and philosophy.

U.S. History Collection
Over 400,000 articles on U.S. History

U.S. History in Context
Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History.

War & Terrorism
History, social science and current events.

World History Collection
Articles on world history, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

World History in Context
Merges reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.