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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.
  • Denver Public Library Digital Collections
    Contains a selection of photographs, maps, broadsides, architectural drawings and other documents from the collections of the Western History/Genealogy Department chronicling the people, places, and events that shaped the settlement and growth of the Western United States. The work of many outstanding photographers is represented and the collection includes images of Native Americans, pioneers, railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, the 10th Mountain Division ski troops and many more.
  • 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 Reference Center
    Includes full text for 150 leading history periodicals and features more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • GreenFILE
    Draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.

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.

International Organizations

  • WHO (World Health Organization)
    Dedicated to the well-being of all people and guided by science, the World Health Organization leads and champions global efforts to give everyone, everywhere an equal chance to live a healthy life.
  • UN (United Nations)
    One place where the world's nations can gather together, discuss common problems and find shared solutions. The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
  • The World Factbook
    The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

U.S. Government

Books

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