History, Literature & Art Databases
These databases will be helpful for research in classes like History, English or other humanities.
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Database Login (Username and Passwords) - must be logged in to your @fusdk12.net account to view.
If you are logged in to an FUSD school Google account, you should have automatic access to our research databases, but if you are trying to access them from home or outside the school network, you may need our district username and password.
History and Social Science Resources
History and Social Science Resources
This collection of eBooks is specifically curated to support the 10th grade Resiliency Project.
An excellent source for both American and world history. Includes 640,000 full-text records from peer-reviewed journals, reference books, periodicals, 74,000 primary source documents, 81,000 biographies of historical figures, 2,000 full-text reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, and 44,000 images and 80+ hours of video.
A Gale database providing global perspectives on current international topics and events, including war, poverty, climate change, and human rights. It offers authoritative content from over 800 sources, including newspapers and journals, to help users critically analyze and understand these complex issues.
To foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples by creating and publishing concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural content.
Books and Literature
Books and Literature
An encyclopedia, biography, and dictionary source for classic and popular literature. It has a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.
TeachingBooks is good for students because it provides a wide range of multimedia resources, like author interviews and book trailers, to make reading more engaging and help them connect more deeply with books and authors.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library dedicated to preserving and providing free public access to a vast collection of digital media, books, music, software, and more. You just need to create a free login and "borrow" texts. Includes some non-English resources.
Fine Arts
Fine Arts
The Alexander Street platform by ProQuest provides streaming video, audio, and text in the performing arts of music, dance, and theatre. These collections are available for all public districts, charter schools, and local libraries.
Smithsonian Open Access is an initiative that makes millions of the Smithsonian's 2D and 3D digital collection items, data, and research freely available to the public to download, share, and reuse for any purpose without needing further permission.
Google Arts and Culture offers a vast collection of high-resolution images of artworks, historical artifacts, and virtual tours of museums and landmarks, along with online exhibitions, stories, and interactive educational tools.
Carnegie Hall Kids is a free digital platform and a collection of educational programs for students to learn about music through interactive games, quizzes, videos, and maps. It introduces diverse musical genres, orchestral instruments, and composers.
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