Biography (English 7): Research Databases

Background information, biographies, primary sources, documents, images, timelines, audio clips, and maps.

Learn about influential people in all disciplines; includes reference and periodical articles, and multimedia. Search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender. Updated frequently with current events.

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.

Magazines and general reference resource for Middle School.

Articles, primary sources, and online books. General reference and multimedia articles, worldwide news publications, and government links from numerous countries.

Three million images from 62 collections, such as The Bridgeman Art Gallery, Getty Images, the Science Photo Library, Ingram Publishing, the National Geographic Society, and other trusted image sources. Curriculum-relevant images and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts, and vector illustrations), all rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use.

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.