Learn how pilot libraries in the Revitalizing High School Libraries Initiative, seeking to support adolescent literacy, doubled their circulation, increased visits from students and teachers, and expanded the role of library media...

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.

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...

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...

Here's a lesson plan from the Woodrow Wilson Library that has students investigating the education of Woodrow Wilson's daughters through the use of primary sources.Also a brief discussion of education in general in the Progressive Era.

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication Louis' School Days by Edith J. May, a fiction book for children.

This site provides the complete etext for the Charles Dickens story, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices.

The complete etext to a collection of speeches made by Charles Dickens covering social and literary subject matter.

This site provides the complete etext for Walter Raleigh's work, Style.

This site provides the complete etext for George Bernard Shaw's story, "Mrs. Warren's Profession."

This site provides the complete etext for Bret Harte's "Complete Poetical Works."

This site provides the complete etext for Walter Scott's story, "Kenilworth."

This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's story, "The World Set Free."

This site provides the complete etext for Edgar Rice Burroughs's story, "A Princess of Mars."

This site provides the complete etext for Edgar Rice Burroughs's story, "Tarzan the Untamed."

This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's "Twelve Stories and a Dream."

This site provides the complete etext for Zane Grey's story, "The Lone Star Ranger."

This site provides a copy of James Knox Polk's inaugural address on March 4, 1845.

This is an extensive review of the Civil Rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Read about the ways African Americans protested discrimination in employment and education over several years. Be sure to click on the images to find...

Learning resource using primary sources in which students study de facto segregation in the North following the Civil War and examine how African-Americans responded to segregation and racism compared to the South.

The complete etext to the Charles Dickens story, Mudfrog and Other Sketches, is provided at this site.

The complete etext to the Charles Dickens story, Somebody's Luggage, is provided at this site.

This site provides the complete etext to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department.

This site provides the complete etext to Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Oakdale Affair.