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Holocaust Encyclopedia

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia is the most visited and comprehensive Holocaust resource online today. It provides the public, educators, faculty, students, and scholars with hundreds of articles, access to digitized collections, critical thinking and discussion questions, lesson plans, oral histories, videos, and much more.

Hartford Institute

For more than 40 years, the Hartford Institute for Religion Research has a record of rigorous, applied research on religious organizations, including the study of churches, denominations, seminaries, and other religious communities. Their work is guided by a disciplined understanding of the interrelationship between the life and resources of American religious institutions and the possibilities and limits placed on those institutions by the social and cultural context in which they work.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps dating from 1500 to the present. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children’s, and manuscript maps.