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  <title>American Journeys</title>
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;American Journeys indexes the full text of more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. Includes more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives. 1000s-1840s&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-journeys.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>American Memory from the Library of Congress</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html&quot; title=&quot;American Memory from the Library of Congress&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;American Memory from the Library of Congress&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;American Memory&lt;/i&gt; is a gateway to the Library of Congress&#8217;s digitized American historical materials, organized into more than 100 thematic collections. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Each collection provides explanatory features to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections. 1400s-present.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://gem.greenwood.com/ip.asp?c=1054&quot; title=&quot;American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://gem.greenwood.com/ip.asp?c=1054&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;American Slavery&lt;/i&gt; contains both an overview of the collection of former slave narratives with related links (available without charge from the home page) and the collection of narratives themselves. Each narrative is delivered as a PDF as originally transcribed, with some interviews available as sound files. Searchable by name of narrator, interviewer, or master, the county or state where the narrator lived in slavery, the narrator&apos;s age or year of birth, or the location of the material in the print version (volume and page). 1920s-1940s (original interviews). &lt;span class=&quot;majax-erm-advisory&quot; title=&quot;e1000149&quot;&gt;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-slavery-composite-autobiography-from-greenwood.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Censtats from the US Census</title>
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Statistics, demographic information and other data for the US from several Census Bureau databases. Includes county business patterns, construction and building permits, census tracts, occupation data, international trade data and more. 1977-present.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/censtats-from-the-us-census.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Child Welfare Information Gateway</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.childwelfare.gov/&quot; title=&quot;Child Welfare Information Gateway&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://www.childwelfare.gov/&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Child Welfare Information Gateway&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;A service of the Children&apos;s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services. The &lt;i&gt;Gateway&lt;/i&gt; provides access to resources including print and electronic publications, websites, databases and more covering topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and much more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/child-welfare-information-gateway.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System from the National Parks Service</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/&quot; title=&quot;Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System from the National Parks Service&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System from the National Parks Service&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contains basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides of the Civil War. Facts are from records that are indexes of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration. Also includes histories of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies and descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war. Currently contains over 6 million soldier names from 44 states and territories.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/civil-war-soldiers-and-sailors-system-from-the-national-parks-service.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Congressional Research Service Reports from the UNT Libraries</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/searchform.tkl?mode=advanced&quot; title=&quot;Congressional Research Service Reports from the UNT Libraries&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/searchform.tkl?mode=advanced&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Congressional Research Service Reports from the UNT Libraries&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;This database provides full-text PDFs of Congressional Research Service reports. CRS does not provide public access to their reports, instead these reports have been collected from members of Congress&apos;s website and other sources. This database does not include a compete collection of all CRS reports. 1976-present.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/congressional-research-service-reports-from-the-unt-libraries.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/search/&quot; title=&quot;Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/search/&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;DTIC&lt;/i&gt; serves the Department of Defense community as a central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. Provides the warfighter and researchers, scientists, engineers, laboratories, and universities timely access to over 2 million publications covering over 250 subject areas. All visitors can search &lt;i&gt;DTIC&lt;/i&gt;&apos;s publicly accessible collections and read or download scientific and technical information, using DTIC Online service. Full text, when available, is PDF.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/defense-technical-information-center-dtic.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Documenting the American South (DocSouth)</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html&quot; title=&quot;Documenting the American South (DocSouth)&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Documenting the American South (DocSouth)&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;A digital publishing initiative that provides online access to primary sources such as texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently &lt;i&gt;DocSouth&lt;/i&gt; includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, maps, literary works, oral history interviews, and songs. 1500s-present.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/documenting-the-american-south-docsouth.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>In the First Person from Alexander Street Press</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inthefirstperson.com/&quot; title=&quot;In the First Person from Alexander Street Press&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://www.inthefirstperson.com/&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;In the First Person from Alexander Street Press&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;An index of letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies freely available on the web and Alexander Street Press. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Some indexed content is copyrighted and not available for free. 1558-1995.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/I/in-the-first-person-from-alexander-street-press.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Legislative Information System from the Virginia General Assembly</title>
  <link>http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/L/legislative-information-system.html</link>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif&quot; title=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&#160;&lt;img alt=&quot;Contents of this resource available through Summon&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif&quot; title=&quot;Contents of this resource available through Summon&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://leg1.state.va.us/&quot; title=&quot;Legislative Information System from the Virginia General Assembly&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://leg1.state.va.us/&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Legislative Information System from the Virginia General Assembly&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Legislative Information System&lt;/i&gt; includes general information about the legislative process and its participants as well as the full text, summaries, status history of bills and resolutions and schedules of activity. Full text searching is also available for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lis.virginia.gov/000/src.htm&quot;&gt;Code of Virginia,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?000+men+SRR&quot;&gt;Virginia Administrative Code&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+men+SRB&quot;&gt;Bills and Resolutions&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://leg2.state.va.us/dls/h&amp;amp;sdocs.nsf/Published%20by%20Year?OpenForm&quot;&gt;House and Senate Documents&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span class=&quot;majax-erm-advisory&quot; title=&quot;e1000728&quot;&gt;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/L/legislative-information-system.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Making of America from Cornell University</title>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif&quot; title=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&#160;&lt;img alt=&quot;Contents of this resource available through Summon&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif&quot; title=&quot;Contents of this resource available through Summon&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?xc=1&amp;amp;page=simple&amp;amp;g=moagrp&quot; title=&quot;Making of America from Cornell University&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?xc=1&amp;amp;page=simple&amp;amp;g=moagrp&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Making of America from Cornell University&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Making of America&lt;/i&gt; provides digital reproductions of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure. Content is provided in text, GIF, and PDF formats. Major segments of this collection include magazines, ebooks, and Civil War documents. 1840-1900.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/M/making-of-america-from-cornell-university.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>National Center for Education Statistics from the US Department of Education</title>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif&quot; title=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&#160;&lt;img alt=&quot;Contents of this resource available through Summon&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif&quot; title=&quot;Contents of this resource available through Summon&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://nces.ed.gov/&quot; title=&quot;National Center for Education Statistics from the US Department of Education&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://nces.ed.gov/&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;National Center for Education Statistics from the US Department of Education&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;NCES&lt;/i&gt; issues numerous publications and datasets each year. These include: early releases, issue briefs, statistical reports, directories, and handbooks of standard terminology, plus library statistics. Reports presented as PDFs; data sets can be customized as HTML tables or downloaded in a variety of formats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/N/national-center-for-education-statistics-from-the-us-department-of-education.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>PolicyArchive</title>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif&quot; title=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.policyarchive.org/advanced-search&quot; title=&quot;PolicyArchive&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;https://www.policyarchive.org/advanced-search&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;PolicyArchive&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;PolicyArchive&lt;/i&gt; provides summaries and full text (in PDF) of more than 12,000 documents on public policy topics from 220 think tanks, university research centers, and government agencies. Emphasis is on US domestic policies; for similar content addressing international affairs, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ciaonet.org/srchfrm.html&quot;&gt;CIAO&lt;/a&gt;. Searchable and browseable by topic, author, funder, and publishing body.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/policyarchive.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Teacher Reference Center from EBSCOhost</title>
  <link>http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/T/teacher-reference-center-from-ebscohost.html</link>
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif&quot; title=&quot;This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only&quot; width=&quot;15&quot; /&gt;&#160;&lt;img alt=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif&quot; title=&quot;This resource is freely accessible&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&#160;&lt;img alt=&quot;This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_mobile.gif&quot; title=&quot;This resource provides a mobile interface; see description for link&quot; width=&quot;10&quot; /&gt;&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/ebsco/index.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Screencast tutorials available for this resource&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif&quot; title=&quot;Screencast tutorials available for this resource&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#160;&lt;img alt=&quot;database provides Get VText links&quot; class=&quot;dsp2&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif&quot; title=&quot;database provides Get VText links&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;amp;profile=ehost&amp;amp;defaultdb=trh&quot; title=&quot;Teacher Reference Center from EBSCOhost&quot; class=&quot;vt_link_url&quot; onclick=&quot;pageTracker._trackPageview(&apos;http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;amp;profile=ehost&amp;amp;defaultdb=trh&apos;)&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot;&gt;Teacher Reference Center from EBSCOhost&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teacher Reference Center&lt;/em&gt; indexes abstracts, citations, and full-text articles from academic journals, magazines, directories, biographies, and case studies on all aspects of education.The full-text materials are available in both HTML and PDF formats. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1984-present. &lt;span class=&quot;majax-erm-advisory&quot; title=&quot;e1000434&quot;&gt;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/T/teacher-reference-center-from-ebscohost.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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