ABC-CLIO: American HistoryThis link opens in a new windowFrom the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation’s evolution.
ABC-CLIO: IssuesThis link opens in a new windowThis database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy, providing authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on today's most important issues.
Classroom Video on DemandThis link opens in a new windowComprehensive streaming video subscription service of more than 5,000 educational programs. Each full-length video has been segmented into predefined clips, making it easy to find specific pieces of content quickly.
Issues & ControversiesThis link opens in a new windowUpdated weekly, explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics in politics, business, government, crime, law, energy, education, health, family, science, foreign policy, race, rights, society, and culture.
GALE: Opposing ViewpointsThis link opens in a new windowCross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts, covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games.
GALE: US HistoryThis link opens in a new windowProvides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Topics range from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.
eBooks
West's Encyclopedia of American Law by Jeffrey Lehman; Shirelle PhelpsThis 12-volume set provides information on more than 5,000 legal topics in American law. It includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Legal issues are fully discussed, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more.
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ISBN: 0787663670
Publication Date: 2004-08-27
American Era's by Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau (Editor)American Eras is a fascinating, student-friendly reference that's patterned after Thomson Gale's award-winning American Decades series. Like its predecessor, America Eras offers insightful essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to U.S. history, but reviews them in a broader scope of time. Volumes cover the events, lifestyles, social history and key figures unique to each era.
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ISBN: 9780787614775
Publication Date: 1997-03-01
Primary Documents by Cynthia Rose (Editor)Each volume covers a decade in American history amplifying and illuminating the decade with first-hand accounts and other primary source documentation. Each volume includes approximately 165 full-text or excerpted historical documents from the period representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. These documents include advertisements, commercials, diaries, literary works, newspaper articles, memoirs, periodical articles, speeches and other types of primary source materials.
100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration chronicling United States history from 1776 to 1965. Includes Marbury v Madison; Gibbons v Ogden
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