Research Essay: Heroes

Argumentative/Persuasive Research Essay: Heroes - Darsaut

Print

• • Oakridge Catalogue

  • Biography Section - back of library, between the seminar rooms

WWW

• • Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Databases

• • Popular Culture Collection

Pop culture is all around us and influences our lives every day. For any social sciences, history, art, or liberal arts researcher, the Popular Culture Collection provides useful information from over two million articles found in over 100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily, including:

• • • Advertising Age, American Theater, Billboard,

    • Cosmopolitan, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter, 

    • Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, 

    • Macleans, Newsweek, Vogue, and more.

• • History Reference Center (EBSCO)

    • The database includes full-text content from 150 leading history journals, including American Historical Review, Archaeology, British Heritage, Canada’s History, Civil War Times, Military History, Teaching History, African Studies Quarterly, Ancient Egypt Magazine, Australian Historical Studies, Chinese Studies in History, Jewish History, Muslim World, Russian Studies in History and Women’s History Review. 

  • Student Edition (Gale)

    • InfoTrac Student Edition provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content. The database offers audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

Encyclopedias (on-line and print)

• • Great Lives from History  (Salem Password)

    • Inventors & Inventions

    • Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600

    • Scientists and Science

    • The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e.

    • The Middle Ages

    • The Seventeenth Century

    • The Eighteenth Century

    • The Nineteenth Century

  • Innovators  (Salem Password)

    • Human Rights Innovators

    • World Political Innovators

  • Britannica