Text and timeline. This revolutionary research tool has 20,000 pages of original source documents, interpretive histories, and illustrations all instantly accessible at the press of a button. The CD Sourcebook of American History features unlimited searching possibilities, close to 1,000 first-hand accounts, founding documents and interpretive histories and more than 100 illustrations. For example documents from Christopher Columbus, Americus Vespusius, Sebastian Cabot, Verrazzano, Coronado, Drake, and several other early American explorers for the Pre-Colonial period. Major towns can also be shown.
Users can choose a particular year and month.
Centennia also contains brief accompanying narrative of events and references to several hundred people, places and events. By selecting an entry on a particular person or event the user can extract the relevant commentary and maps. Each annual installment contains 50,000 or more pages of text on fifteen or more cultures. Each installment covers both North American ethnic groups and a sample of cultures from around the world. Based on HarperCollins textbooks for Western Civilisation and updated with current events.