ONLINE RESOURCESWorld Book Online
The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides.
Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.
Britannica Spanish Reference Center
The Spanish Reference Center delivers two sites in one, with separate home pages and resources. It’s an excellent resource for Spanish language students and native speakers alike.
ProQuest SIRS Discoverer
A multidisciplinary database for elementary and middle school learners covering curriculum, current events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. All newspaper, magazine and reference content is 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality domestic and international sources. The collection includes 9,000 integrated educational weblinks, and reference materials such as the Compton’s by Britannica encyclopedia and DK Eyewitness books.
From early topographical sketches and pioneers’ accounts, to photographs of Buffalo Bill and his ‘Wild West’ stars, explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.
American Indian Histories & Cultures
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.