From the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines, American
History investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. Using primary and secondary sources to integrate American politics, science, culture, philosophy, and economics, this authoritative database explores the ongoing development of the United States.
History investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. Using primary and secondary sources to integrate American politics, science, culture, philosophy, and economics, this authoritative database explores the ongoing development of the United States.
Career Puppy provides the opportunity to investigate careers through compelling videos, discussion and self-reflection questions, extensive written information, online guidance and feedback from “Big Dogs”, and more! The Career Puppy site is dynamic; content is continually being added and updated.
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 190 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people
History Reference Center® features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.
Use your Howard County Library card barcode and/or pin number (you can request a pin number from the library) to access the many online reference sources. To locate the online resources, click on “List of Databases.”
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.
Science in Context is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science databasefrom Gale that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. This resource reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms such as earth science, science history, life science, physical science, science and technology, space and much more.
Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content.
SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America.
SIRS Knowledge Source is a comprehensive online interface providing integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents, and graphics from SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance. Thousands of full-text articles from domestic and international sources exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues are available.
Student Research Center provides access to thousands of encyclopedia, magazine, and newspaper articles as well as primary source documents, biographies and photos.
Student Resource Center Jr. is a fully integrated database from Gale that contains thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
TeachingBooks.net is a time saving portal to thousands of online resources of book-related resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors.
World Book Online Reference Center is an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. World Book Online offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, web sites, and other print articles.
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