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A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora. Great resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate users.
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians. Ideal resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate research on American Indian history.
A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
Provides biographical information on 650,000+ people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.
Bisonnette on Fashion: A Visual Dictionary
Timeline of fashion history from the 18th to the 20th century, from Kent State University Museum.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms.
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.
Provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.
Explora is EBSCO's research interface designed specifically for students and educators.
Dynamic e-books from Scholastic brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO [Grades 5-8]
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Searchable full-text of 1000 plus newspapers, both national and international.
Covers history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples. Features peer-reviewed essays, reference sources, primary documents, media, newspapers, and magazines.
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams, including the PSAT, SAT, GED replacement, TASC, test, and other exams.
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided.
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
Provides full text access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students.
National Newspaper Index (1977-present)
Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post.
Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest.
Coverage of the most-studied U.S. history topics including from the arrival of Vikings in North America, American Revolution, Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror through a web-like experience that supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills. (Noted for access to primary source documents.)
World Book Online Reference Center
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, animations, maps and more.
From antiquity to the present day, search a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.
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