Covering African American history and culture from its African origins to the present day this database provides a comprehensive collection of over 500 searchable virtual titles. Also included are timelines dating from the 15th century to present, primary and landmark documents, slave narratives, audio and image files, and classic texts, some dating from the 19th century. The classroom resources site includes lesson plans which include a subject index and glossary.
Covering more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders of over 500 Native American groups, this database provides entries on primary source documents, biographies, maps
Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history.
This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE.
An online source for Spanish-language titles, covering in-print, forthcoming, audio,video, and out-of-print titles, and detailed publisher information.
Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.
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.
This database which includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries provides a full text collection for over 270 reference works covering art, biography, business, geography, history and social science, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy and psychology, religion, science and technology.
Electronic Enlightenment is a database which provides unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection.