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U.S. government primary & secondary documents addressing current issues, political processes, constitutional rights, and international relations.
Primary & secondary documents on American political conflict, economic development, and changing culture.
Historical primary & secondary documents explore daily global life: family life, work, food, clothing, sports, language, literature, relationships, education, gender roles, social customs, & more.
Primary and secondary documents support global literacy: geographic, political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural forces.
Search collections from over 1,500 PA libraries with 41 million books, audio, reference, movies, and more. See librarian to request books. Includes "Chat with a Librarian" which provides 24/7 access to a librarian.
Viewpoint articles with background and analysis on 345+ science, health, historic, economic, political and global issues
Updated daily with greatest events in world history: photographs, images, audio sound bites, video, and graphics. (school access only)
The world's largest collection of online genealogy records. (school access only)
Articles about health and wellness from mainstream medicine to alternative medicine. (school access only)
Community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
provides biographical details on over 120,000 writers in all genres whose works have been published in the English language
Select from over 16,000 eBooks from leading publishers. (school access only)
Enjoy unlimited access to top reference eBooks.
Access to military records, including stories, photos, and personal documents of men and women who served. (school access only)
covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
Regional, national, and world newspapers
Create an account to download 3 free articles/month from journals, books and primary sources.
Learn about animals, plants, music, science, sports, and more
The largest online newspaper archive with 9,000+ newspapers from the 1700s–2000s. Millions of additional pages added every month (School Access Only)
Provides scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, and datasets along with digitized historical primary sources and ebooks.
Academic articles, images, topic selections, and more
Hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and high-quality images.
Information on high school research topics plus pop culture, sports, and more
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
The Civil Rights and Social Justice database covers civil rights in the United States.
HeinOnline Scholastic includes multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including business, American history, European history, global politics, government, international studies, women’s studies, and many more
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper with news, weather, sports, entertainment and more (Newspapers in Education Log-in Required
The Patriot News - Pennsylvania's source for news, sports, weather & entertainment (Newspapers in Education Log-in Required}
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the world's most widely used index to educational-related literature.
Auto Repair Source offers a user-friendly search experience and access to a wealth of information to help users diagnose, repair and maintain today's complex vehicles.
provides detailed yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines