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Recommended Library Databases

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U.S. History In Context This link opens in a new window
U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
Search this general encyclopedia's collection of hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.
Annals of American History - Discontinued
This database has been discontinued by the publisher.
Gale Global Issues in Context This link opens in a new window
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.
MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
CultureGrams This link opens in a new window
Search country reports, news, personal interviews, and statistics for information about daily life all over the world.