Once you narrow your scope and select a topic, open the databases linked below and research. To access the databases from home, the database passwords.
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
eBook: Masterplots, 4th ed, and Critical Survey or World Poetry. Analyzes important works of literature in all genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction, throughout history and around the world.
Encyclopedia and magazine articles and 90,000 images, videos, and audio clips. Middle School students access an encyclopedia created for grades 5 and up.High School students have access to the Encyclopædia Britannica, written by Nobel laureates, historians, and experts.
Covers significant people, events and topics in World History. Full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Explore the social history of societies from the Aboriginal peoples of Australia to the citizens of 21st-century China. Includes 66 distinct cultures, including the Inca Civilization, the Han Dynasty, Medieval Europe, and Postwar America with scholarly contributions and more than 5,000 primary sources and images.