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Free online version of the award winning reference work on Chicago’s history and culture.

More than 3,600 encyclopedias and reference sources. Topics covered: world history and culture, medicine and health, statistics, literature, business and science.

Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21^st century, History Reference Center is a research database containing full-text journals, magazines, reference books and thousands of primary source documents.

Includes Salem’s American history series, “The Decades,” from 1940-2000; Great Events from History, from ancient times to the present; and Milestone Documents in American History, a collection of primary source material.

Examine the events, trends, and attitudes of the time while browsing over a dozen different women’s magazines in high-resolution color, dated from the late-19th century through 2005.