A database is an usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer).
"Database". The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/database.
Biography in Context provides biographical information people from around the world and throughout history and is a great place to learn more about key players of an event or time period.
African Americans
Blacks
Minorities
Civil Rights
Discrimination
Racial Profiling
Black Diaspora
Specific names of people, places, and events involving African Americans
Credo Reference provides full-text entries from subject-specific encyclopedias, biographies, chronologies, and dictionaries and is a great place to start building a foundational understanding of a topic, person, or event.
Bloom's Literature is a comprehensive source for literary research on writers and their works throughout history and the world. The database includes overviews, synopses (summeries), analyses, literary criticism, and information on major and minor literary characters. Content is browsable by literary time period, author type, literary genre, and nationality.
History Reference Center World Edition provides full-text history periodical articles, historical documents, biographies, photos, and maps on the world's social, political, and cultural history from 1893 to 1985.
Historical Reference Electronic Book titles covering global topics from the ancient world through today.
Literary Reference Center contains information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. This database provides plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; articles/essays of literary criticism; author biographies; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems and short stories; author interviews and more.
Points of View Reference Center provides articles that present multiple sides of current issues and is designed to offer the full scope of controversial subjects.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context provides pro and con articles on contemporary social issues.
Sora is powered by Overdrive and is database that empowers students to discover and enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from their school and local public library, for both leisure and class-assigned reading.
This databases provides links to quality online content for South Carolina-related topics. Information is organized by grade-level and subject headings, including Gullah culture, slavery, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina.