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All sides use media bias ratings to provide balanced news, perspectives, and issues across the political spectrum, so you can decide. They seek to help people understand that there is no such thing as unbiased news.
A safe, up-to-date, and age-appropriate information resource for students.
Chemistry informs and inspires learners about key chemistry topics including atoms, elements, chemical reactions, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and the properties of matter.
Offers more than 35,000 pages of content on the countries of the world. Their cultural, historical, and statistical information has proven to be valuable to students, parents, teachers, and researchers alike.
Freely reuse resources from literary links, videos, photos, audio, scientific research, and so much more!
Over 600,000 biographical entries of contextual information on the world's most influential people.
Provides information exploring cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Designed to support global awareness with content to help learners critically analyze important issues of the modern world.
Made specifically for middle schoolers, this resource combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
Designed to support global awareness with content to help learners critically analyze important issues of the modern world.
Presents ALL sides of important issues.
Information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics and showcase scientific disciplines that relate to real-world issues.
An Overview of our nation's past, covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
An Overview of world history, covering the most-studied events, cultures, civilizations, religions, people, and more.
Covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
Discover your amazing history! With more than 4.4 billion records, it delivers an essential collection of genealogical data and more.
A comprehensive resource that spans our nation's history with a user-friendly interface and award-winning content.
Convenient eBooks that are simple to use, and great for research. Explore over 5,000 titles.
It Covers American History, African-American History, American Indican History, Ancient & Medieval History, and Modern World History.
Covers world history from antiquity to the present. This resource is ideal to preparing for history debates and research projects and answer document based questions (BDQs) about U.S. and world history over the past 5,000 years.
Comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines, including Science in the news, experiments, activities, videos, animations, eLearning Modules, and more!
Award-winning resources for the study of countries, culture, and geography concepts.
Compendium of statistics and up-to-date facts and figures on everything you need to know!
Over 7.3 million full-text articles from over 1,600 sources. Researchers will have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to the scientific and engineering world.
Articles from the Boston Globe.
A non-judgemental friend who will remind you how to organize your argument, avoid plagiarism, what to look for when revising, what counts as evidence, evaluating sources, how to choose a topic for research, where to find information or, remember where to start...
The world's most comprehensive guide on culture and countries. 174 Countries and 121 Topics for each Country!