CULTURE
LAPL Databases
- Discovering Collection
- Comprehensive coverage of core curriculum in Literature, History, Biography, Science and Social Studies, geared to the younger student. Includes Discovering Authors.
- History Resource Center: U.S. (Gale)
- Covers all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day through primary documents, original reference sources and newspaper/journal articles.
- History Resource Center: World (Gale)
- A comprehensive collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary source documents that give extensive coverage of the 20th century world. Additional historical resources are being added continually to expand the time frame from antiquity to the present.
- Junior Edition (Gale)
- Periodical database designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, government, sports and more.
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- Over 7,500 articles, with images, maps, charts & tables, and primary sources focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
- Social Studies Fact Cards
- California curriculum quick reference topics for grades 4 to 8 on Explorers, Indians, Missions, Ranchos, Governors, U.S. Presidents, Religions, Wonders, History by Decades, Counties, Countries, and Early Civilization.
- World Book Encyclopedia
- Offers information on a range of topics.
Afro-American Websites
- African American Journey
- Special collection of articles from World Book. Covers history, events, issues of Black experience.
- African American Mosaic
- Guide to Lib Congress collections. Covers all aspects of Afro-American experience.
Native American Websites
- Native American Authors
- Links to biographical, bibliographic and critical analysis of authors and their works. Covers mostly modern authors. Can be searched by name, title of work, or tribal affiliation.
- Sipapu--Chetro Ketl Great Kiva
- A three dimensional interactive reconstruction of an Anasazi kiva.