History & Culture
Khan Academy is an amazing collection of over 2,600 videos and practical exercises covering everything from math to science to the humanities. And it's all free! Learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. Here's what Khan Academy says about itself (from the About page on their website): A free world-class education for anyone anywhere. The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. W...
BBC News Country Profiles
From the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), this excellent site provides information on countries and international organizations.
"Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives."
Global Road Warrior is a database of cultural and geographical information for 175 countries around the world. The page for any given country includes information in the categories of demographics, culture, business and trade, travel, maps, and more. This is a great resource for learning about other countries whether you are planning a trip, researching a school paper, or just want to take a trip ...
World Book Encyclopedia Online is a reference source containing every article from the print set plus thousands more. It has state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed Web sites and much more. The site also contains the World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Advanced, World Book Kids and a Spanish Language Encyclopedia.
Searchasaurus is a research tool for children in elementary school. Research topics including Animals, Art and Music, Health and History, People and Places, Science and Math, Sports, and Stories.
Kids Search is designed to help elementary and middle school students with research. Students may browse by topic, or access the dictionary, encyclopedia, or image library. Topics include Animals, Arts & Music, Geography, Health, In the News, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Sports. There are resources for teachers, too.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best online resources for education and research. This service is created by a network of United Kingdom universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains over 115,000 records. The Home page also includes a V...
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated nation...
This project from the Colorado State Library includes digital copies of more than 60 Colorado newspapers, dating from the 1850s to the 1920s. The database includes thousands of articles, graphics, letters to the editor and advertisements.
The Colorado Virtual Library (CVL), presented by the Colorado State Library, provides access to the combined information resources of Colorado libraries. You can do a quick search by author, title, or keyword, or you can search by type of library: public, K-12 schools, academic (colleges and universities), and certain "other" libraries (special libraries like the Denver Museum of Nature ...