DHS Library - Resources by Subject

Resources by Subject

Environmental Issues

Facts on File: Science Online -
GreenFILE - 300,000 scholarly indexes, general interest titles, government publications and more, containing information on environmental concerns.
iCONN Resources - If accessing from home, use your public library barcode to login
- Science Reference Center
ProQuest Platinum: for magazine/newspaper articles

EIA - Energy Emissions Data & Environmental Analysis of Energy Data - Official Energy Statistics from the US Government - Environment energy-related emissions data & environmental analyses
GLOBE: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment - GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSPs) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment.
High School Environmental Center: US EPA - Your portal to EPA Environmental Resources. This site will inform you about environmental issues and help you protect the environment.
National Geographic: Environment -
NIEHS Kids' Pages Links and Resources -
ScienceDaily - ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's leading online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. Copyright Reuters 2008.
United Nations Environment Programme - To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
WHO | Water, health and ecosystems: directory of resources -

History

ABC-CLIO's - World Geography- Current and historical information on countries from around the world.
Encyclopedia Britannica- Online encyclopedia for detailed information on all subjects.
Facts on File Databases:
- American History Online | Ancient & Medieval History Online | Modern World History Online
Pro/ConOnline - Supreme Court Debates, International Debates, Congressional Digest.
ProQuest Platinum - Search in newspapers, magazines, journals and reference works on all topics.

History Matters - Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
Columbus Navigation Homepage - a page that examines the history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus
1492 An Ongoing Voyage Exhibit - Exhibit at the Library of Congress
What did Europeans see when they looked at the New World and the Native Americans? (PDF)- an array of source documents collected by Peter Pappas – including journal entries, letters, maps, and illustrations. It examines European views of Native American and the New World in the Age of Exploration. While it is a rather one-sided account, the documents also reveal a great deal about the cultural "lenses" that the Europeans "looked though."
Exploration Through the Ages - Retrace the steps of the great explorers from ancient Egypt to the North Pole and beyond... From

Poetry

LitFinder for Schools - Formerly World's Best Poetry, Story Finder, Essay Finder, Play Finder, Speech Finder
Literature Resource Center - Includes: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography

Poets.org - a resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of poems, essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion.
Poetry 180 - home page of the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project.
Poetry Connection - a showcase of quality poetry for literature students and aficionados alike. In addition to texts of published poems, there is also a biography on each featured poet.
American Verse Project - a searchable electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
The EServer Poetry Collection - poetry links and poems from the Carnegie-Mellon English Server.
Bartleby.com Verse - With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.