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Provides grades 9–12 with standards-aligned content to help with papers, projects, and presentations, while empowering critical thinking and information literacy skills.
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855–2021*
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855–2000 is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full-text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper's backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
More than 325 engaging, online, instructor-led courses focused on professional development, technology skills, and personal enrichment.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019*
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2019.
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, this digital archive provides a firsthand account of 450 years of history in the Americas, including discovery and exploration, slavery and European colonization, native peoples, wars of independence, religion and missionary work, social and political reforms, economic development, westward expansion, notable individuals, and much more.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World charts the inception of slavery in Africa and its rise as perpetuated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, placing particular emphasis on the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. More international in scope than Part I, this collection was developed by an international editorial board with scholars specializing in North American, European, African, and Latin American/Caribbean aspects of the slave trade.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part IV: Age of Emancipation
Part IV: Age of Emancipation includes numerous rare documents related to emancipation in the United States as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. This collection supports the study of many areas, including activities of the federal government in dealing with former slaves and the Freedmen's Bureau, views of political parties and postwar problems with the South, documents of the British and French government on the slave trade, reports from the West Indies and Africa, and other topics.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part III: The Institution of Slavery
Further expanding the depth of coverage of the topic, Part III of this series explores, in vivid detail, the inner workings of slavery from 1492 to 1888. Through legal documents, plantation records, first-person accounts, newspapers, government records, and other primary sources, this collection reveals how enslaved people struggled against the institution. These rare works explore slavery as a legal and labor system, the relationship between slavery and religion, freed slaves, the Shong Massacre, the Dememara insurrection, and many other aspects and events.
China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1759–1972
A compilation of 39 series of mostly British Foreign Office (FO) files, China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1759–1972 includes general correspondence and registers composed by the British legation in Beijing as well as British consulates based in more than 20 Chinese coastal and inland treaty ports. Also included are the private and semiofficial correspondence of Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John N. Jordan, and Lord Edmund Hammond as well as the records and photographs of the British concession in Tianjin.
Offers elementary children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore a broad range of subjects like animals, geography, science and more—all in one place.
Supports U.S. history studies and provides an overview of our nation's past, covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, Part I
The largest single collection of English news media from these two centuries, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection provides rare and often unique content for scholarly research into a wide range of political, educational, economic, or journalistic study.
Explore the development of American literature in a changing culture through novels, short stories, romance, fictitious biographies, travel accounts, and sketches.
Help your library customers understand common legal procedures through access to thousands of authentic, professional legal documents. From filing patents and trademarks to creating leases, drafting bills of sale, delegating power of attorney, and more, these resources are especially valuable for business owners.
Gale Presents: Miss Humblebee’s Academy
Offer a fun, inviting, and safe environment to help parents and caregivers prepare children ages three to six for kindergarten proficiency. Miss Humblebee’s Academy includes thousands of online and offline activities, including printables and practice worksheets, to support kindergarten readiness and introduce young learners to key academic concepts.
Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
This archive consists of over 1.3 million pages of archival material covering Latin American and Caribbean culture and society from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
U.S. Declassified Documents Online offers unique insights into the inner workings of the U.S. government. The collection links the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single, easily searchable database. This collection provides access to a broad range of declassified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
With 2.1 million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, this collection presents the broadest and deepest collection of materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice.
Give patrons 24/7 access to a guide on everything from changing their car’s spark plugs to knowing if a mechanic’s estimated hours are on track. Continuously updated, this online resource offers users the detailed information they need to tackle preventive vehicle maintenance and repairs.