American National Biography -- the premier biographical resource for notable people in American history

Biography Resource Center

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated

College and Financial Aid Resources

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Daily Newspapers

Boston Globe Archives

Opinion-Pages

Electric Library -- With more than 800 full-text magazine, newspaper, book, and transcript sources, plus thousands of maps and pictures-eLibrary is a one-stop source for research.

 Encyclopedia Americana

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

The New Book of Knowledge

Encyclopędia Britannica Online

Canadian Encyclopedia Online

Fast Facts  -- Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools

Information Please Almanac

Refdesk -- one of the best reference sites on the Web

French Newspapers -- a selection of daily newspapers in French

Spanish Newspapers --  a variety of daily newspapers in Spanish online

InfoTrac -- Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and full text magazine/periodical articles plus Business and Company Resource Center and General BusinessFile ASAP

Internet Tutorials

Using and Evaluative Internet Resources

Libraries and Museums

Recommended Reading Lists

School-wide Summer Reading Program 2001

ProQuest Direct -- access to 1300 full text magazine/periodicals (1986 to present) and 75 national newspapers including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal

Search the Web with Search Engines

Formulating an Internet Search Strategy

Subject and Reference Resources -- links to a currencies converter, a dictionary and thesaurus, and various science, social studies, and humanities web sites, and general reference resources

Writing Research Papers -- a very good guide for high school students

Purdue University Writing Lab -- excellent writing lessons with rules and activities including lessons on Parts of Speech, Sentence Construction, Punctuation, Spelling, and more