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United States and Government

  • Colorado State Publications Library Digital Repository
    A collection of digital publications from Colorado state agencies. The mission of the Colorado State Publications Library is to provide Colorado residents with free permanent public access to state government documents.
  • The Economist
    Get full access to The Economist's articles on biography, opposing viewpoints, and U.S. and world history.
  • GPO
    The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies in digital and print formats.
  • Legal Information Reference Center
    Provides exclusive online full-text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, contains hundreds of publications and thousands of multi-state legal forms.
  • Library of Congress Digital Collections
    Provides open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music.
  • Religion & Philosophy Collection
    Includes hundreds of journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy, and philosophy of language.
  • Social Sciences Full Text
    Covers the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Includes full-text articles from more than 320 journals dating back to 1972.
  • TOPICsearch
    Helps explore current events, social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.
  • United States Census Bureau
    The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.

History and Culture

  • American Indian Experience
    Illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America.
  • Black Life in America
    Highlights the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. Black Life in America offers coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day, sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.
  • Colorado State Publications Blog | Colorado Virtual Library
    Explore blog posts featuring collections, topics, and items related to Colorado's history! The Colorado State Publications Library provides Coloradans FREE permanent public access to state government documents.
  • Digital Public Library of America | DPLA
    The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.
  • Ethnic Diversity Source
    A dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies, and primary source documents.
  • Hispanic Life in America
    Focuses on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, covering the early 18th century to the present day, sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.
  • History Colorado
    Established in 1879, History Colorado is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and an agency of the State of Colorado under the Department of Higher Education. They offer access to Colorado’s history through cultural and heritage resources like our museums and historic sites statewide, programs for families and adults, stewardship of Colorado’s historic treasures, and resources for students and teachers making a positive impact on preschoolers, students in grades K-12, and those in higher education.
  • History Reference Center
    Includes full text for 150 leading history periodicals and features more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books.
  • Plains to Peaks Collective | Digital Public Library of America
    Libraries, archives, and museums in Colorado and Wyoming all hold pieces of our rich cultural history. This online collection brings together these unique objects and their stories, allowing visitors to freely explore photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, artifacts, and videos found at a variety of cultural heritage institutions in both states.
  • U.S. History in Context
    Find comprehensive coverage of the most-studied topics, from the arrival of Vikings in North America 1,000 years ago to Vietnam, Watergate and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  • World History in Context
    Reaches back to the ancient world and forward to today’s headlines. Provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.

News and Statistics

  • NewsBank
    Offers access to current and archived content from more than 2,000 newspaper titles, as well as newswires, transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents, and other publications.
  • Newspaper Source Plus
    Provides full text for more than 1,200 newspapers, 40 news magazines, news from more than 130 newswires and 1.7 million television and radio news transcripts.
  • Nexis Uni
    Contains a large selection of sources, including full-text magazine, newspaper and journal articles, industry and company information, legal materials, medical information, and reference materials.
  • Statista
    Aggregates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.
  • Wall Street Journal
    WSJ is a premier newspaper for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. The database includes Eastern and Online editions and provides a comprehensive coverage back to 1984.

Opposing Viewpoints

  • CQ Researcher
    Offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on a wide range of topics. Each report is investigated and written by a seasoned journalist, professionally fact-checked, and footnoted to facilitate further research. Reports date back to 1923.
  • Global Issues in Context
    Ties together sources to present a rich analysis of issues: social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural, and headlines in world hot spots.
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context
    Covers today’s hottest social issues presenting each side of a topic.
  • Points of View Reference Center
    Contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue. Provides more than 370 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy.

Visual Resources

  • Artstor Digital Library
    Features a wide range of images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists.
  • Britannica ImageQuest
    Offers nearly 3 million images rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use and are perfect for creating exciting and visually engaging projects and presentations.
  • Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
    DPLA provides open access to photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.
  • DocuSeek2
    Offers access to over 800 documentary films covering a variety of topics with a focus on environmental and social justice issues.
  • Films on Demand
    Provides access to over 35,000 educational videos covering a wide variety of disciplines.
  • Kanopy
    Offers access to a large, curated collection of educational, entertaining, and enriching films.
  • Netflix Educational Documentaries
    Offers a selection of Netflix original documentary features and series.

United States Government

Media Bias

News

  • AP (Associated Press) News
    The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
  • BBC World News
    BBC World Service is an international multimedia broadcaster, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on radio, TV, and digital.
  • NPR (National Public Radio) News
    NPR is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human. Through its network of member stations, NPR makes local stories national, national stories local, and global stories personal.
  • Reuters
    Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

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