Research

The following ressources are available in Schoology.

  • ABC Clio American Government
    • Hosts a balanced and comprehensive selection of reference material. Original content—including peer-reviewed scholar perspectives—probes the historical origins and unique structure of the U.S. government; its effect on current events and issues; its strengths and weaknesses, considered domestically and in connection with foreign policy; and much more. A wealth of biographies, videos, quotes, and authoritative primary source documents also contribute to this truly multifaceted research resource, while regular content updates ensure the database’s currency.
  • ABC Clio American History
    • Helps students build foundational subject knowledge of U.S. history from pre-contact to the present day. With over 20,000 primary and secondary sources presenting a full survey of America’s development, this library provides a rich collection of primary sources covering everything from early diaries, ship logs, and slave narratives all the way to FBI surveillance files, as well as thoughtful commentary and academic discussions on topics ranging from early colonial settlement and the witch scare in Massachusetts to the complexities of politics today. Daily updates ensure that this database is accurate and credible as our understanding of American history continues to evolve. 
  • ABC Clio Health & Wellness Issues
    • Dives deep into today’s top health-related issues, exploring their historical contexts, current complexities, impacts on physical and mental well-being, and global reach. Authoritative yet accessible reference content includes the insightful perspectives of a diverse group of experts, giving students the full picture on complex and controversial concepts. Through its collection of carefully curated primary and secondary sources, this multifaceted database offers students a rich resource for school learning and research as well as personal explorations. 
  • ABC Clio Pop Culture Universe
    • An inherently fun yet authoritative database that deviates from the way in which social studies is usually taught by teaching history through books and literature; clothing, fashion, and appearance; film; food and drink; music; sports; technology and media; transportation and travel… all of the things that students find interesting about today’s culture, in the context of America’s past. It is a complement to any social studies course about life in America since the 1900s and an outstanding resource for research and discovery. 
  • ABC Clio The African American Experience
    • The American Mosaic provides a comprehensive survey of African American history and its heartbreaking struggles, major movements—political, social, artistic, and literary—and most notable events and legislative reform. Featuring articles and essays from African American authors and contributors, it gives voice to the experience of African Americans from their arrival in the Americas through to the present day, including the influence of the Black community on popular culture and the aspirations of African Americans, as well as their struggles.
  • ABC Clio World Religions
    • Spans more than 50 religions practiced throughout the world, including both those that have flourished into the 21st century and those that are no longer practiced. Nearly 10,000 reference entries and primary sources illustrate important religious figures, core beliefs, customs and practices, celebrations and holidays, significant and sacred places, and momentous events from faiths including agnosticism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Shinto. In addition, a collection of scholarly discussions offers compelling analysis of key topics and the range of historical and current debates in religious studies. The database was developed under the oversight of advisor J. Gordon Melton, PhD, author of more than 40 scholarly texts and reference books on religion and a distinguished senior fellow of the Institute for Religious Studies at Baylor University in Texas.
  • Britannica's ProCon.org Database
    • Promotes critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, freely accessible way.
  • Britannica School
    • A great place to start for most topics. Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts
  • EBSCO Explora
    • Explora offers a carefully curated list of topic areas to provide users with a visual entry point to browse popular research topics and subject areas. EBSCO's proprietary Topic Overview collections connect users to related content and concepts. Explora’s powerful filters narrow results, users can click the All Filters button to apply several filters at once, including Lexile measure and Content provider. 
  • Gale Archives Unbound
    • Find peer-reviewed articles, full-text magazine, newspapers,;e-books, primary source documents, videos, and podcasts. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Collections are chosen based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.
  • Gale eBooks
    • Reference materials.
  • Gale in Context - Literature
    • Provides context for literary classics and diverse new texts by using a robust multimedia collection of videos, images, infographics, eBooks, and more. This high-interest content is available in the user-friendly Gale In Context platform, complete with accessibility and navigation tools that ensure a seamless user experience. 
  • Gale in Context - Opposing Viewpoints
    • Supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts; presents all sides of important issues and empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.
  • Gale in Context - Science
    • Provides context for literary classics and diverse new texts by using a robust multimedia collection of videos, images, infographics, eBooks, and more. This high-interest content is available in the user-friendly Gale In Context platform, complete with accessibility and navigation tools that ensure a seamless user experience. 
  • Gale: Liberty Magazine Historical Archives, 1924-1950
    • Discover moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle-class America from 1924 through 1950. 

  • Gale: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

    • Provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America. With 1.8 million pages available, the collection features publications of all kinds, from the political party newspapers at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mammoth dailies that shaped the nation at the century's end. Major newspapers stand alongside those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.  

  • Gale: Smithsonian Collections On-Line
    • Gale and the Smithsonian have collaborated to give libraries a unique opportunity to provide students, faculty, and researchers the chance to look behind the glass of the Smithsonian exhibits and collections. Gale is digitizing primary source materials from deep within the museums, libraries, and archives of the world's largest museum and research complex, making it available digitally, in searchable formats, and integrating it with software that aligns with scholarly workflow. 
  • Gale: The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2014
    • This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Read by both world leaders and the general public, The Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. With over 12 million articles available, the archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy, along with coverage of all major international historical events. 
  • GBH & PBS Learning Media: U.S. History Collection
  • Infobase
    • A research database for world geography and culture. Every nation of the world is profiled in depth, with more than 40 entries and more than 100 statistical indicators covering all aspects of each nation’s geography, history, society, and culture. At-a-glance information, maps and flags, videos, images, audio recordings, gazetteer entries, biographies of prominent people, a timeline, and current news supplement each country’s profile. Information for the U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and international territories is similarly detailed. 
  • JSTOR
    • A database of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences, providing searches of almost 2,000 journals.
  • Library of Congress Digital Newspaper Archive
  • National Archives: Explore primary source documents.
  • Smithsonian - Explore History and Culture
  • Smithsonian - Explore Science and Nature
  • Smithsonian - Research Resources