History, culture, society, the individual

Britannica Academic delivers fast and easy access to trusted information with balanced, global perspectives and insights that users will not find anywhere else. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research.

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica (UK) Ltd

Updated Spring 2022

Britannica LaunchPacks Social Studies offers teachers and students access to 1600 rich, high-quality, and diverse content Packs relating to specific social sciences and humanities topics that are vital to curriculum-aligned instruction in a given grade range. Monitor students’ understanding with interactive assessment tools, such as Kahoot! Quizzes and Pear Deck. Use LaunchPacks’ ‘assign’ function to set tasks and deadlines.

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica (UK) Ltd

Updated Spring 2022

Britannica Original Sources gives students access to an extensive, continuously increasing collection of over 420,000 e-works of classic, primary source, and general reference materials covering everything from science to the arts and languages. This vast collection enables students to research and evaluate the original sources and personal accounts of humankind’s social, political, legal and religious development.

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica (UK) Ltd

Updated Spring 2022

As the go-to site for research - the core of any inquiry learning model - Britannica School offers thousands of curated and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended websites, and three unique, but connected, databases to meet every reading level.

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica (UK) Ltd

Updated Spring 2022

Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organised into a user-friendly portal experience, it merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia. Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.

Publisher: Gale-Cengage Learning

Updated Spring 2022

Gale In Context: High School offers cross-curricular content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Explore topics within business and economics, geography, government, history, literature, science and health, social issues, and more.

Publisher: Gale-Cengage Learning

Updated Spring 2022

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.

Publisher: Gale-Cengage Learning

Updated Spring 2022

Gale In Context: U.S. History is an engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history. This comprehensive, contextual, media-rich collection empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills. Topics range from the arrival of Vikings in North America to the American Revolution and on through the Civil Rights movement, September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the War on Terror.

Publisher: Gale-Cengage Learning

Updated Spring 2022

Gale In Context: World History reaches back to the ancient world—and forward to today's headlines—to deliver a chronicle of the people, cultures, events, and societies that have formed the history of the human race. A range of topics such as Aztecs, Industrial Revolution, Silk Road, the Buddha, Space Race, and more provide a wide perspective across the globe.

Publisher: Gale-Cengage Learning

Updated Spring 2022

Current, comprehensive, and reliable, Gale Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s coursework. It provides a seamless research experience that helps students find a starting point, search across a wide variety of materials and time periods, and discover new ways to analyse information. Biographical and contextual materials supports the study of diverse authors, interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical-thinking skills.

Publisher: Gale-Cengage Learning

Updated Spring 2022

The High School e-book subscription collection offers fast and easy access to more than 12,400 e-books across all academic subject areas. Topics include Education, Law, Psychology, Social Sciences, World history. All titles are from leading high school publishers.

Publisher: EBSCO

Updated Spring 2022

Historiens Verden contains the largest web-based article and source database for world history. At Historiens Verden, regardless of whether you are interested in topics such as the Roman Empire, the American Civil War or the Cold War, you will be able to find a wealth of articles and sources. Historiens Verden is a widely used and suitable portal for history teaching. Via Historiens Verden, students can immerse themselves in the whole of world history and the history of literature.

Publisher: Det Historiske Akademi

Updated Spring 2022

Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education and popular culture through a variety of media. Updated weekly, with an extensive backfile, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles each presenting both sides of an issue clearly, coherently, and without bias—made to inspire thought-provoking debates. Includes opinions from prominent newspapers and magazines worldwide.

Publisher: Infobase (via JCS online resources)

Updated Spring 2022

Kongressen.com is Denmark's leading niche media on American politics and social affairs. Editor-in-Chief Anders Agner and the team of analysts are widely recognised as having the greatest capacities in their fields of expertise. The coverage is thus characterised by a great degree of professional insight and analytical depth, which means that readers are given a qualified and nuanced understanding of the American superpower on a daily basis. This happens both through analyses, interviews and features.

Publisher: Willmore Group ApS

Updated Spring 2022

Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.

Publisher: Infobase (via JCS online resources)

Updated Spring 2022

Naxos Spoken Word Library is a superior collection of literature's greatest works. Featuring thousands of high-quality classic novels, poetry, plays and bestsellers, the service is updated monthly with titles from the leading audiobook publishers. With uncomplicated functionality and text-to-screen capabilities. Languages: English, German and French.

Can be accessed via app.

Publisher: Naxos Denmark ApS

Updated Spring 2022

History is more than tales from the old days. It is an aid to understanding the world, and at Politiken Historie we believe that an understanding of our own time begins with an examination of the past. That is why we do not give you a quick news overview - rather the other way around. We give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in fascinating and significant historical stories. With Politiken Historie you get an online 100-page magazine, access to previous magazine publications as well as read articles.

Publisher: Politikens Udviklingsselskab A/S

Updated Spring 2022

The younger generations are faced with issues that they will struggle with for many years to come – if not their whole lives. Education is therefore alpha and omega. Thanks to education, one is enlightened, educated and gets to develop one's democratic sense. And here Politiken can be seen as a supplement to the teaching. Because Politiken is about the changes in the modern world. Therefore, students can use Politiken as the destination for facts and knowledge from reliable sources.

Publisher: JP/Politikens Hus

Updated Spring 2022

For more than 20 years as the Nordic region's leading supplier of media monitoring, we have collected large amounts of data from the media landscape. Every day, our database is filled with articles, posts and comments from the media, which are made available in our media archive. The archive is used daily by journalists, writers, universities, high schools, primary schools, companies and organisations. It's easy to create your own searches and filter the results to find exactly what you're looking for.

Publisher: Retriever

Updated Spring 2022

An award-winning resource for the study of countries, cultures and geography concepts. Every country of the world is profiled, with more than 40 entries and more than 100 statistical indicators covering all aspects of its geography, history, society and culture. Plus maps and flags, videos, images, gazetteer entries, biographies of famous people, a timeline and current news. Tools are available for studying Earth and geographic regions, comparing countries and states, and researching terms and concepts.

Publisher: Infobase (via JCS online resources)

Updated Spring 2022

From the beginnings of human history, societies and cultures have established themselves around religious and spiritual practices. World Religions explores religion and spirituality in an objective manner, from the ceremonies of the first practitioners to the elaborate rituals of today. Topic Centers feature specially selected content on 15 of the world’s religions and traditional spiritual practices, guiding users to information on spiritual leaders, sacred texts, and holy days and festivals.

Publisher: Infobase (via JCS online resources)

Updated Spring 2022

World News Digest is a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news. Hundreds of news sources, governments, and organisations rely on World News Digest for a broader view of the issues that matter today. It features 300,000+ original articles from 1940 to today taken authoritative resources from US and around the world. Articles are linked to historical documents to provide context and add understanding. Dynamic citations and curriculum tools also available.

Publisher: Infobase (via JCS online resources)

Updated Spring 2022

Zetland is a modern daily news magazine that students can listen to or read at their own convenience on their phone. We cover both domestic and foreign social affairs in general, and free teaching content has been prepared for secondary schools etc., which puts our articles into a professional context. The content is particularly popular among Danes under the age of 30, but is aimed at all curious Danes.

Publisher: Zetland

Updated Spring 2022