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    • ABC-CLIO American Government
      Foundations of American government, Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Rights and Liberties, Political Behavior, Domestic and Foreign Policy, Political and Economic Systems, State and Local Government
    • Annals of American History
      American History by date, author, topic or keyword search.
    • CultureGrams
      Cultural and Geographic information about places around the world. World Edition, States Edition, Maps, Charts, Photos, People, Recipes
    • Encyclopedia Britannica
      An online searchable version of the old reliable encyclopedia.
    • Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
      The Spanish language version of the Encyclopedia Britannica
    • Gale Group
      Opposing Viewpoints: Social issues, current events. Articles, images, statistics, links, etc.
      Science Resource Center: Science topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations.
      Student Resource Center: General school database including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. Newspaper & journal articles, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.
    • Issues and Controversies
      Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
    • NetTrekker
      A web search engine for student use.
    • NoodleTools
      NoodleTools can be used to take notes, organize information, and build correct bibliographies.
    • Proquest Platinum
      Proquest Platinum: Magazine and Journal articles on a broad range of topics.
      Proquest Historical Newspapers: Newspaper articles for 200 years.
      SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Primary Sources
      SIRS Discoverer: Research and Homework Help
      SIRS Knowledge Source: Editorially-Selected Resources Supporting Research Assignments
    • Webster's New International Dictionary
      Webster's dictionary online
    • World Book Gold
      World Book Encyclopedia online
    • World Data Annals
      Information on countries around the work. Comparisons, statistics, charts, graphs and data.