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New E-Books Available Now!
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Check Out The Freedom's Promise Series Available In GALE E-Books!
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Find titles such as:
  • Booker T. Washington: Leader and Educator
  • Calvin Spann: Daring Fighter Pilot
  • Dennis Banks and Russell Means: Native American Activists
  • Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Ida Wells: Journalist and Activist
  • Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II
  • John Lewis: Civil Rights Leader and Congressman
  • The Birth of Hip-Hop
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act and Its Relevance Today
  • The Impact of Black Churches on the Civil Rights Movement
  • The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears
  • The Negro Leagues
  • The Tulsa Race Riot

Do-It-Yourself!
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Maintain and Fix Your Lawnmower, Tractor, and Other Small Engines
Find detailed repair and maintenance guides for all types of small engines in the Small Engine Repair Reference Center e-resource! View routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service) as well as extensive repairs such as engine and transmission disassembly.

Find your engine by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type and model numbers.

Repair and maintenance information is provided for:
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  • Air-cooled engines
  • ATVs
  • Chainsaws
  • Commercial mowers
  • Diesel engines
  • Farm tractors
  • Generators
  • Motorcycles
  • Marine (boats)
  • Outdoor power equipment
  • Personal watercraft/jet ski
  • Riding lawn mowers
  • Rotary tillers
  • Snowmobiles
  • Snowthrowers
  • String trimmers and blowers
  • Walk-behind mowers
  • Yard and garden tractors

Explore Pennsylvania in the Civil War!
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Check out these Civil War Collections Made Available by Institutions Throughout PA!
Explore these digital collections:
  • Abraham Lincoln Collection
  • African American Burials in Somerset County 
  • Cambria Civil War 150
  • Chester County Archives and Record Services – Chester County Board of Relief 
  • Civil War Grave Registrations
  • Grand Army of the Republic: Personal War Sketches of the Members of Strong Vincent Post No. 67
  • Indiana, Pennsylvania in the Civil War Collection
  • Pennsylvania Regimental Histories
  • United States Civil War Collection
  • William D. Bailey 1863 Civil War Diary
  • William Riley Blakeslee Diary Collection

There's more! The Pennsylvania State Archives has made available over 50 Civil War-era collections!

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Explore collections such as:
  • Civil War Service and Pension Accounts (PA) 1861-1873
  • Record Book of Claims for Arrears of Pay and Bounty (PA) 1864-1869
  • Records of Drafted Men and Substitutes (PA) 1862
  • Register of Sick and Wounded Soldiers, circa 1861-1865
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