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Biography Resource Center
This database combines biographies from several authoritative reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

CountryWatch

Get information about a country's government, economy, trade, environment, population, current events, geography, and business.

Daily Life Through History

Learn about daily life throughout history and across many world cultures. Organized by time period, region and topic, Daily Life Online combines information from numerous reference works, monographs, and primary documents and is a great resource for students from middle school all the way through college.

Facts.com

Answer your questions about news, events, issues, statistics, and people of the last 60+ years. A great place to for finding out what happened on a specific date in the past (such as your birthday!).

Newsbank (available in library only, see below for remote access) 
Full text articles from over 600 U.S. local, regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, and business journals, some from 1970-present.  Includes full coverage of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present and the Union Leader from 1989 to the present. Due to contractual limitations, not all newspapers are accessible from home (see below).


Newsbank - remote access 
Full text articles from over 400 U.S. local, regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, and business journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present and the Union Leader from 1989 to the present. Due to contractual limitations, many newspapers, such as the Concord Monitor, are only accessible from within the library (see above).

Newspaper Archive   
Access.NewspaperArchive.com is a gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Containing tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages dating as far back as the 1700s, the archive is an excellent source of primary source documents. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.


Library of Congress: American Memory

"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."

Nashua Historical Photographs

View historical photos of Nashua, NH.

History of the City of Nashua, N.H.

Edited by Edward Everett Parker and one of the major histories of Nashua, this book contains biographies and historical information about Nashua from its settlement as Dunstable through the late 1890s. Download the entire book or select individual chapters, and then browse or search.

US Supreme Court Decisions Issued Between 1937-1975 (full text)

Search for US Supreme Court Decisions by case name or keyword.

EyeWitness to History 

History from the Ancient World to present.