This collection includes 150 full-text magazines, thousands of photographs, maps and flags, more than 130,000 biographies, and more than 81,000 primary source documents. Each full-text article is assigned a Lexile (reading level indicator).
Social Studies magazines available in Middle Search Plus include: American Heritage, American History, Calliope, Cobblestone, Dig, and more.
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This remarkable collection includes information about 5,000 years of civilization, from ancient history to the present, and features great reference, primary source, and magazine & journal content, as well as images, video and audio content from the History Channel, NPR, BBC News and more.
This collection includes news, reference, primary source and video content, and statistical information, is updated daily with information from more than 650 full-text newspapers, magazines and journals, and features country topic pages and issue pages.
​This comprehensive collection features information from reference encyclopedias, academic journals, newspapers, magazines and primary source documents, as well as images, and video and audio content about notable individuals, events and topics in American history.
This remarkable resource "engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities." There are presently 73 lessons in the U.S. curriculum, 37 in the world curriculum and five in the "Introduction to Historical Thinking" unit, designed as stand-alone lessons that can supplement the ongoing classroom work in which teachers and their students are engaged.
​​Each set contains 10-15 primary sources, including letters, posters, oral histories, video clips and more, culled from libraries, archives and museums in the United States, a teaching guide, and links to related sites/resources.