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African-American History

New! Articles, primary sources and multimedia covering more than 500 years of African-American history, culture and experience ranging from slave trade to civil rights movements and beyond.

Black Life in America

Collection of articles and multimedia focused on the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, including current and historical Black publications.

Access to this resource ends January 31, 2025. Explore African-American History »

Britannica Escolar

Provee acceso rápido a múltiples recursos como artículos, diccionarios, recursos multimedia, sitios web y mucho más. Los niveles de escolaridad: primaria y secundaria.

Quick access to multiple resources such as articles, dictionaries, multimedia resources, websites and much more. School levels: primary and secondary.

Britannica School

Encyclopedia style articles for all ages: elementary, middle and high school students.

CultureGrams

Explore the culture, history and people of each U.S. state and country of the world.

Gale Literature

Biographies, criticism, primary source material, reviews and overviews plus access to full-text short stories, plays, speeches and poems. Search across content from Literature Criticism OnlineSomething About the Author and more.
 

Hispanic Life in America

Collection of articles and multimedia focused on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, including Spanish-language and bilingual publications.

Access to this resource ends January 31, 2025.

 

Kansas City and Regional Newspapers

Full articles from many Kansas City and regional newspapers.

Kansas City Star Image Edition

Flip through full-page images of The Kansas City Star Image Edition, a digital replica of the print newspaper.

Note: The publisher currently does not provide Saturday or "Extra" eEdition content to NewsBank.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy provides a free world-class education for anyone everywhere on topics like math, science, history, economics, humanities, programming and test prep.

LearningExpress Library

Practice tests and tutorials for students in elementary, high school, college and graduate school and occupational practice tests such as GED, firefighter exam and more.

Lightbox

Bring learning to life with hundreds of interactive nonfiction books that integrate multimedia into each page. Enjoy online, no downloads required. For grades K-12.

MasterFILE Complete

Our largest collection of articles from magazines, journals, reference books and primary sources.

MAS Ultra - School Edition

Articles from popular magazines and journals for high school students.

Middle Search Plus

Popular magazines for middle and junior high school students.

National Geographic Virtual Library

Firsthand accounts of global exploration captured in National Geographic Magazine articles dating back to 1888.

Find additional National Geographic eMagazines on Libby.

NewsBank Hot Topics

The month's major news topics, summarized in just a few sentences with links to the latest relevant articles, blogs, videos and more.

New York Times

Enjoy the highly reputed reporting and interactive storytelling of The New York Times online. By using our daily Group Pass, you get unlimited articles, breaking news, multimedia and more! If you are already at the Library, simply log into your NYTimes.com account to read unlimited articles.

Primary Sources (Gale)

Digital historical documents including books, manuscripts, letters, newspapers, photographs, maps and more ranging across topics of national and global relevance.

Read It!

Nonfiction articles and texts adapted for English language learners. Covers a variety of topics and includes short comprehension quizzes.

Artículos y textos de no ficción adaptados para estudiantes de inglés. Cubre una variedad de temas e incluye pruebas breves de comprensión. Este recurso está solamente en inglés.

TOPICsearch

Articles from a variety of national and international newspapers, magazines, biographies, book reviews, polls, government information and more.

U.S. Newsstream

Full-text articles from U.S. newspapers including major dailies and regional publications from 1980 to present. Includes The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.