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ABC-CLIO American Government provides daily UPI Washington news, political cartoonsand short videos, different viewpoints through political commentaries.It also includes comparisons of the United States’ and other nations’ political and economic systems and directories of contact information for nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies.
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ABC-CLIO Daily Life through History examines historical topics like food and cooking, celebrations, clothes, romance, work, religion, housing, language, and social customs. Video and audio files, maps, and images offer insights into history. Researchers can discover details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful from their modern-day perspectives. |
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ABC-CLIO Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society helps students understand how society shapes and is shaped by controversy. Primary sources provides context for the issues, including such documents as the Clean Air Act (1963) and the Copenhagen Accord (2009) and more than 4,000 images and audio and visual files, including interviews with LGBT veterans describing their experiences under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". It gives complete historical background and contemporary status of each issue as well as supporting facts, figures, and timelines. |
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Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences provides hundreds of photographs, maps, and videos on 10 genocides, including the Armenian genocide, the Cambodian genocide, the Herero genocide, the Holocaust, and the Rwandan genocide, allowing students to see repeating patterns in history. Support Center activities created by Sara Cohan, director of the Genocide Education Project, guide students and teachers through this sensitive material. Utilizes the widely accepted "eight stages of genocide" framework developed by Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, about how genocides occur and what can be done to prevent them.
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Pop Culture Universe provides access to more than 300 full-text volumes covering the last 100 years of American pop culture including topics ranging from music and fashion to politics and religion. Site is continuously updated. Itprovides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students—without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites.Articles focus on describing major events and trends in pop culture from the 1900's to the present, from the Gibson Girls of the Gilded Age to the social media of the 2000's. Skills Center assists students in understanding how to do research assignments, evaluate elements of media literacy, and compare America's history and culture to better understand how these elements affect the world.
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World at War focuses on the causes and consequences of wars fought around the world and the global impact of these conflicts. It provides complete overviews of more than 40 wars, with timelines, causes and consequences, portraits of opponents. Whether fighting for independence, forging alliances, making a play for dominance, or battling a global threat, history is shaped and lives changed when nations go to war.
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Country Watch provides demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information for each country . Countrywire provides daily news coverage for every country in the world including a 5 year macroeconomic forecast for each country, and a 20 year forecast of energy demand, supply, and pricing for every country. It also includes Map Gallery, Global Guide, weekly Political Intelligence Briefing and the Associated Intelligence Wire. |
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CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, resources for additional research, graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features.
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Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 full-text journals. Coverage begins in 1980.
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Global Issues in Context focuses on broadissues such as war, genocide, terrorism, humanrights, poverty, famine, globalization, worldtrade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming as well as more specificevents and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues, such as genocide in Darfur, product safety of Chinese imports, sectarian violence in Iraq, changing weather patterns across the globe, and disaster recovery in Indonesia and New Orleans including video, downloadable audio files and interactive statistics.
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History Study Center Offers invaluable historical reference material that covers 14 centuries of history, from ancient to modern, old world to new world. |
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Literary Reference Center provides information on thousands of authors and their works featuring author biographies, plot summaries & work overviews, full-text essays, full text for literary magazines & journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, classic texts, and author interviews.This collectionincludesMerriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature,Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism(six volumes),The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, and all ofMagillOnLiterature Plus.
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LitFinder for Schools covers world literature and authors throughout history and a wealth of literary works, including over 150,000 full-text poems, short stories, speeches, and dramatic works. It also includes biographies, work summaries, author images and a full glossary of literary terms.
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Military and Intelligence Collection is comprised of over 500reference books, magazine and news wire articles.and more than 7 million articles with links to related sources outside of the current article.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context promotes issue awareness, information literacy and critical thinking and will support the new Common Core Curriculum Standards. It contains over 13,000 pro/con viewpoints from a variety of resource types: reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more.
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Points of View contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue and provides content that can help students realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills. |
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Pop Culture Collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art, or liberal arts course. The collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate periodicals, which are predominantly full-text.
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Proquest Learning Literature
A comprehensive resource including 3,000+ author biographies; 40 searchable full-text literature journals; full-text literary works; and other key criticism and reference sources.
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Religion & Philosophy Collection can be used toresearch different religions and philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. The collection is comprised of 250 periodicals, many of which are full-text. Coverage begins in 1980.
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SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, and advertisements. |
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SIRS Knowledge Source(SKS) is a portal to thefollowing databases that are cross-searchable:SIRS Issues Researcher—Covers the pros and cons of leading issues most studied and debated by students SIRS Government Reporter—Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs SIRS Renaissance—Current perspectives on the arts and humanities SIRS WebSelect—Collection of editorially-selected reliable and credible educational websites covering all curriculum topics.Every SIRS article, primary source, website, and graphic has been carefully reviewed to ensure its relevancy, credibility, curricular applicability, standards alignment, and appropriateness to studentsand articles include Lexile scores.
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Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History brings the past to life with a curated collection of images and documents directly from the Smithsonian archives and Gale’s leading digital collections. Selected to meet the rigor of U.S. History curriculum, this unique resource brings together critical and hard–to–find materials into a single experience. Primary source overviews authored by Gale contextualize the artifacts, while critical thinking questions allow for easy addition to any lesson plan. |
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Teachingbooks.net is an online collection of K-12 multimedia author programs, book guides, book readings, author websites and includes an educator area.
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U.S. History Collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
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U.S. History in Context provides the most-studied events, issues and current information in U.S. history through full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents, image galleries containing seals, maps and flags, and video and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources.
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War & Terrorism Collection will be usedtogain insight into conflicts: their causes, their impact, and how they are perceived on a global scale. Almost 100 full-text periodicals are included. Coverage begins in 1980.
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World History Collection contains nearly 40 predominantly full-text journals that provide balanced coverage of events in World History.
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World History in Context moves over 5,000 years from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe, to ensure that the events, movements and individuals that defined, informed and shaped world history are covered with a sense of balance. It includes full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents, historical maps, atlases, images, and video and audio selections from archival newsreels to NPR.
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