Canadian educator Donald Hamilton offers this refreshing look at school library budgets. This is not the nuts and bolts of your budget, but ideas about what ought to be at the heart of the budgeting process.

The Cornell Law Library provides an exhaustive resource on "the set of programs popularly referred to as Social Security." Read about the Act and its amendments, court decisions, applications, and more.

The government of Australia issued an official apology to the 'stolen generation' of mixed race children of that country. Recollections of life and treatment are shared in this article by those who suffered the most, the children. Taken...

A library research guide with a huge collection of links to articles, lesson plans, readings, poetry, and official documents. They explore the experiences of African Americans and the evolution and purpose of the Black Lives Matter...

A detailed resource for parents looking to assist their children at the library. Includes information for preschoolers, school-aged children, and teenagers.

An impressive collection of photographs of African American life in Virginia, spanning the last half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Included are photographs of various types of work, individuals, school groups, and...

World Wide School: etext of Pandora

A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of Recollections of Mrs. Anderson's School by Jane M. Winnard, a fiction book for children.

Read about the Indians of the Pacific Northwest and the boarding schools whose curriculum attempted to assimilate their children into the dominant American culture.

This site provides the complete etext for Leo Tolstoy's "Boyhood."

This site provides the complete etext for Bret Harte's story, Susy, A Story of the Plains.

This site provides the complete etext for Daniel Defoe's story, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

This site provides the complete e-text for the Charles Dickens story, All The Year Round.

This site provides the complete etext for the Charles Dickens story, The Holly Tree.

This site provides the complete etext for the Charles Dickens story, Master Humphrey's Clock.

This site provides the complete etext for Upton Sinclair's story, Damaged Goods.

This site provides the complete etext for William Makepeace Thackeray's story, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

This site provides the complete etext for James Fenimore Cooper's story, The Lake Gun.

This site provides the complete etext for Thomas Carlyle's story, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, The $30,000 Bequest.

This site provides the complete etext for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, "The Vital Message."

This site provides the complete etext for George Bernard Shaw's story, "Dark Lady of the Sonnets."

This site provides the complete etext for George Eliot's story, "The Lifted Veil."

This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's story, "The Wheels of Chance; A Bicycling Idyll."