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History  |
America Eras
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | Includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to particular eras in U.S. history. | | √ | √ | √ |
American Decades
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | Covers 20th-century events and social history beginning in 1900 and ending in 1999. Each decade is covered, with a chronology of world events and a general overview of the decade. Within each topic, alphabetically arranged entries discuss historically important events, issues, definitions of difficult concepts or terms, and other interesting trivia and sideline stories. | | √ | √ | √ |
American Decades
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. | | √ | √ | √ |
American Decades Primary Sources
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume in the set includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more. | | √ | √ | √ |
Ancient Civilizations Reference Library
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | The ancient civilizations of Iraq, Egypt, India, China, Central America and other regions are the focus of this remarkable contribution to student reference. | | √ | √ | √ |
Atlas of the Civil War
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | This atlas describes the Civil War in five chronological sections, each of which frames the war as both a military conflict and a substantial social force that shaped the United States. In addition to substantial coverage of the war’s multiple military theaters, this atlas also devotes substantial attention to nonmilitary elements of the struggle. Maps of population, economic development, elections, transportation networks, and patterns of enlistment accompany the text articles to better illuminate the war’s social impact. | | √ | √ | √ |
Colonial America Reference Library
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | The Colonial America Reference Library provides students with the comprehensive information on the Colonial American period they need to write reports and class assignments including biographical profiles and primary source documents. | | √ | √ | √ |
Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | This reference library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). | | √ | √ | √ |
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | A three-volume survey of clothing, costume and fashion, presented through 640 essays, arranged alphabetically. Coverage includes the origins of clothing and body adornment, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress, as well as representative costumes from a wide range of historical eras. For students and researchers at the high-school level or higher. | | √ | √ | √ |
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | A three-volume survey of food and its place in human culture and society, presented through 600 alphabetically sorted entries. Features multidisciplinary coverage of such topics as comfort food, ethnicity and food, medieval banquets, and nutrient composition, among many others. Includes photographs, illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus, and timelines. For students and general readers. | | √ | √ | √ |
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes 2nd ed.
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | Provides detailed studies of tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist. Gives detailed yet accessible information on history, religion, art, government, economy, daily life and current social and political issues. | | √ | √ | √ |
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headware, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | Fashion, Costume and Culture provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. It also explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses, and shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. | | √ | √ | √ |
| Historic Newspaper Index of Washington County | This newspaper index for the Civil War years, 1860 – 1865 is part of The Historic Newspaper Indexing Project which is a subject and personal name index to local and regional news, legal notices, obituaries, marriages, and advertisements published in Hagerstown, Maryland newspapers from 1790 - 1844 and 1860 - 1865. The regions covered in the index are Frederick, Washington, Allegany and Garrett Counties in Maryland; Cumberland, Adams, Fulton and Franklin Counties in Pennsylvania; and Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan Counties in West Virginia. | | √ | √ | √ |
Historical Atlas of the Islamic World
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | Among the great civilizations of the world, Islam remains an enigma to Western readers. Now, in a beautifully illustrated historical atlas, noted scholar of religion Malise Ruthven recounts the fascinating and important history of the Islamic world. | | √ | √ | √ |
History Reference Center
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database, featuring full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers and more than 120 leading history periodicals. The database contains more than 59,600 historical documents; more than 49,600 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video | | √ | √ | √ |
History Resource Center (World)
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | History Resource Center: World is the newly updated version of one of out most popular electronic resources. History Resource Center: World combines a comprehensive and unique global collection of resources with easy-to-use search functionality supporting undergraduate and high school research and curriculums. | | √ | √ | √ |
| History Resource Centers (US) | History Resource Center: U.S. is a diverse, electronic multidimensional collection of uniquely combined current full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles and overviews and facsimiles of historic documents. | | √ | √ | √ |
| In The First Person | In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. | | √ | √ | √ |
| MDCH - Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Project | The purpose of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Project is two-fold. First, the MDCH Project is a collaborative effort to digitize Maryland-related historical documents, images, audio, and video for Maryland's public libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Second, the MDCH Project website provides centralized, one-stop access to these culturally significant items that will benefit the patrons and staff of the libraries and cultural heritage institutions, as well as future generations, by promoting research, education, and tourism. | | √ | √ | √ |
Middle Ages Reference Library
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | How did the Sunni Shiite split in medieval times bring about modern tensions between Iran and Iraq? Middle Ages Reference Library helps students answer this question and many other enigmas by encouraging them to see how events and ideas are linked. | | √ | √ | √ |
Middle East Conflict Reference Library
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | Designed to meet the pressing need for a lucid, comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events and documents that are key to understanding the region. | | √ | √ | √ |
Milestone Documents in American History
(Available inside library only) | Milestone Documents in American History is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets, free. Purchasing printed reference delivers online access at no additional cost. Salem currently offers this service with three series of historical reference:
Milestone Documents - A new, primary source series; The Decades - Salem's critically acclaimed American history series; Great Lives from History - The definitive, worldwide biographical resource. | | NA | NA | √ |
Renaissance and Reformation Reference Library
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | This resource brings the people and the events of the Renaissance and Reformation to life for today's students. Covering everything from Luther's Revolt to the writings of Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Reformation Reference Library fills the need for comprehensive coverage of this amazing time. | | √ | √ | √ |
| WHILBR - Western Maryland's Historical Library | Allegany, Garrett, and Washington Counties in Western Maryland have a rich and diverse history. View images from the collections of the libraries, historical societies, and individuals in the three counties. There are photographs, newspaper articles, and indexes, rare books and more. | | √ | √ | √ |
Witchcraft in America
- Allegany County
- Garrett County | This fascinating and informative source covers the history of witchcraft in the United States from the hysteria that facilitated the witch hunts during the Colonial Period to modern day followers of Wicca. Chapters include full text or excerpts from trial transcripts, diary entries, public notices, and many other primary sources. Biographical essays highlight prominent figures related to the Salem witch trials. | | √ | √ | √ |
