Online Resources

ABC-Clio Social Studies Databases
This set of databases focuses on developing critical thinking skills in social studies. They offers both primary and secondary resources for students across a wide range of topics and media formats. Teacher tools include: Research List Generator (to guide your students) and textbook correlations. We will be subscribing to the following three databases during 2008-2009 due to expressed interest. Others may be added as needs indicate. Remote and teacher's login and passwords are available in the LMC, or email Mrs. Cowell.

American History
World History-Ancient NEW for 2008-2009
World History - Modern NEW for 2008-2009

CountryWatch
An an almanac on steroids, this database not only covers the general facts related to every country (and some disputed dominions), but also provides daily news feeds (from the each country's own news service!) and a powerful data comparison tool. Students will be introduced to this in 9th grade World Cultures classes, but the resource applies across the social studies (and, in fact, the school's) curriculum.

Credo Reference NEW for 2008-2009
This resource features featuring full text, visuals, audio files, and animations from over 262 respected reference books. This is a whole library online! Easier to navigate and with richer content, this replaces Oxford Resources Online.

CultureGrams
More than an almanac, this resources offers data, maps, recipes, and images as well as political, historical, and cultural descriptions related to all the worlds countries (and the U.S. states). From Proquest

eLibrary Curriculum Edition (includes History Study Center)
One of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed and selected specifically for K-12 students. Because of it's friendly interface and readability features, our ninth grade students will be oriented to and encouraged to use this resource across the curriculum.

The Historical New York Times will be replaced with the Historical Chigaco Times (address to come). This will offer students more access to the news that has shaped both the nation and our region from a broader period of time. Access Newspapers (through Badgerlink) will continue to offer access to articles from newspapers across the country.

Points of View NEW for 2008-2009
A flexible, comprehensive and beneficial virtual library of resources designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues. Replaces Opposing Viewpoints. Trial database for spring 2008. Look for full access in 2008-2009. User: HUHS/Password: trial

World Conflicts Today
Highlights the current world "hotspots," offering insight in to the historical perspectives of key players, as well as implications for the people impacted by the conflict.

World Book Advanced NEW for 2008-2009
Online access to the popular general knowledge encyclopedia with NEW advanced version that allows students and teachers to develop and save research pathfinders. Also includes a spanish language encyclopedia, e-books, 270,000+ primary source documents, citation builder, timeline builder. User name: academics PW: orbit OR rocket (depends on the date)

50 New Reference Works (2007-2008)

1. Symbols, signs & visual codes : a practical guide to understanding and decoding
2. Historical dictionary of American propaganda   
3. Encyclopedia of human ecology    
4. World population : a reference handbook
5. Global teen life (5 volume set includes: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Carribean, Middle East)
6. Contemporary youth culture (2 volumes)
7. The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide (7 volumes)
8. Class in America (3 volumes)
9. Working Americans, 1880-1999 (3 Volumes covering working, middle and upper classes)
10. Encyclopedia of racism in the United States
11. Material culture in America : understanding everyday life    
12. American icons : an encyclopedia of the people, places, and things that have shaped our culture (3 volumes)
13. Hip hop culture
14. Youth activism : an international encyclopedia (2 volumes)
15. Presidents : debating the issues in pro and con primary documents (8 volumes)
16. Voices of protest : documents of courage and dissent
17. Human rights worldwide : a reference handbook
18. Encyclopedia of privacy (2 volumes)
19. Encyclopedia of presidential campaigns, slogans, issues, and platforms
20. Global perspectives on the United States (3 volumes)
21. Cash and credit information for teens
22. College financing information for teens
23. Debt information for teens
24. Savings and investment information for teens
25. Poverty in the United States. (2 Volumes)
26. The United Nations system : a reference handbook
27. Intellectual property : a reference handbook
28. U.S. military service : a reference handbook
29. Social issues in America : an encyclopedia (7volumes)
30. Children and youth in adoption, orphanages, and foster care : a historical handbook and guide
31. Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society (3 volumes)
32. Marriage customs of the world : from henna to honeymoons
33. Encyclopedia of American folklife (5 volume)
34. Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history
35. Building the world : an encyclopedia of the great engineering projects in history (2 volumes)
36. Icons of business : an encyclopedia of mavericks, movers, and shakers (2 volumes)
37. History of Music: 5 volumes covering the colonial and revolutionary period, the Civil War era, the Gilded Age, the Great Depression, the counterculture era
38. 100 albums that changed popular music : a reference guide
39. Sports and games of History (2 volumes including medieval cultures, 18th and 19th centuries. Additional volumes on order.)
40. History in the media : film and television
41. Television cartoon shows (2volumes)
42. Television characters : 1,485 profiles, 1947-2004
43. Social dancing in America (2 volumes)
44. Icons of horror and the supernatural (2 volumes)
45. Encyclopedia of the stateless nations. (5 volumes)
46. Cold War : a student encyclopedia (3 volumes)
47. Encyclopedia of conflicts since World War II (3 volumes)
48. The home front encyclopedia : United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II (3 volumes)
49. Encyclopedia of the Korean War : a political, social, and military history (3 volumes)
50. Postwar America : an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic history (4 volumes)

On Order for 2008-2009

Average age of non-fiction and reference resource in the LMC was 1978 for Geography & History and 1984 for other Social Sciences. 2007-2008 orders boosted these dates to 1983 for Geography & History and 1988 for other Social Science. During the 2008-2009 school year, the collections development cycle will focus on continuing to update our social studies resources in order to provide globally relevant and current information to HUHS students.Titles below, along with a significant number of "issues" titles are included in summer order.

• Juvenile justice : a reference handbook
• Mysteries in history : from prehistory to the present
• Personal perspectives. World War I
• Personal perspectives. World War II
• Voting in America : a reference handbook
• Arbitrary borders series (covers disputed political borders throughout history)
• New global society set (covers development, human rights, labor, poverty, physical environment, language and culture)
• Cooking Up History series (covers American and World history eras)
• Daily Lifes of Civilians in Wartime series (covers both American and Global conflicts)
• Encyclopedia of Title IX and sports
• Girl culture : an encyclopedia
• Food Culture Around the World Series
• Issues and Images of Women in the 20th Century (5 volumes)