New Reference Books in Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Virtual Library reference collection has just received these great resources to the Gale Virtual Reference Library: Animals Atlas of the World’s Strangest Animals (Science) DK Eyewitness Books: Endangered Animals (General Reference) Mammals of the Northern Hemisphere (Science) Mammals of the Southern Hemisphere(Science) Rourke’s World of Science Encyclopedia: Animal Life (Science) College College Financing Information [...]

Check out these new and updated points of interest across In Context!

Biography in Context Thirty new people pages – focusing on Nobel Peace Prize Winners – have been added, including: • Albert Gore, Jr. • Dalai Lama • Kofi Annan • Mikhail Gorbachev • Shimon Peres • Yasir Arafat • Yitzhak Rabin • And more! A new Contemporary World Leaders category has also been added; people [...]

Monday Morning Smile

Do you have any books on Genghis Khan and his Mongrel Hordes? Linda Adams Gibbs High School Corryton, TN Our Gale Virtual Reference Library has a host of information on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. There are a variety of reference books with information including: The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students Encyclopedia of [...]

Monday Morning Smile

“Do you have any books about World War III? How about World War IV?” (Asked by a first-grader) Susan Kempel Kennedy Elementary Fargo, ND

Monday Morning Smile: U.S. Civil War

“Can you tell me why so many famous Civil War battles were fought on National Park sites?” Joan Bogun Belhaven Public Library Belhaven, NC The distinctive American pattern of preserving battlefields as parks owned and administered by the federal government is largely a consequence of the efforts of Civil War veterans. Actual battlefield preservation by [...]

Monday Morning Smile

“I need a short summary of the Civil War and World War II. Can I get just the key points?” Will McElhaney The Ohio State University – Newark Newark, OH U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today. Topical essays covering “The [...]

Cool Website – Vintage Technology

Vintage Technology – is a site that seeks to showcase the evolution of devices in our lives through the archiving of old advertisements from the 1950s.”… A fun component of the site is a game called “hit or miss” in which the reader has to determine whether a product survived the marketplace or fell into [...]

Gale Databases Name Changes

History Resource Center: US is now called U.S. History in Context. History Resource Center: World History is now call World History in Context. You can search both databases at once by going to one of them and clicking the radio button “Both US & World” under the search box in the upper right corner.

World Digital Library

At the World Digital Library, you can view primary sources of historical significance from around the world in multilingual formats. Gain inter-cultural awareness and understanding through manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recording, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Select your language. Click on a continent to begin your journey, Then browse by place, time, topic, [...]

eLibrary Elementary New Titles

The following are new ebook titles which are now available in eLibrary Elementary. American Journalists: Getting the Story . Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past Archaeology: Discovering the Past Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, v 3.0 Compton’s by Britannica, v 6.0 Child of the Fighting Tenth: On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers GeoNova City Maps GeoNova [...]

Top Websites

History – It’s Happening! One of our database vendors – EBSCO has created a free web site resource for middle and high school students to promote North America’s vivid history, and help celebrate events such as Women’s History Month, and Black History Month. This interactive site is a model for EBSCO database searches students can [...]

New Database – Daily Life Online

Contains primary documents, images, maps, vetted weblinks, Tours through Time features, Spanning the Globe features, and thousands of folk and fairy tales. Book titles include: Greenwood Dictionary of World History - Perfect for finding brief and informative entries on over 2,000 cross-referenced entries to the most important events, concepts, persons and place in world history. Covers [...]

New Databases – Historical Statistics of the United States

Historical Statistics of the United States The new version contains three times more than in the previous edition (1975) — and dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty. The online format allows users to download spreadsheets in a variety of formats and create custom tables of data. Downloads of tables can [...]

Did you know?

In the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) there is a wonderful six volume set which explains the history of an idea.  Often students will need to find information about an ‘idea’ such as “gesture”.  The book provides an over view of the concept then provides a study of gestures followed by gestures found in art.  [...]

Database – eLibrary Elementary

A great resource for young students to study Hispanic American History.  Students can use the “Topic Search” area to locate information on a wide variety of topics. Follow this path for Hispanic-American History: Click the Topics search tab > United States History > Special Subjects > Hispanic-American History Click screen shot to enlarge