Sites offering online reference and information, including research and citation guides, dictionaries, and subject specific tools.

• Almanacs/Geography/Flags (top)
  Statistics, maps, flags and other information from the United States and other countries.
  • Almanacs
    • Farmer's Almanac
    • Information Please Almanac
    • World Almanac for Kids
  • Geographical Information
    • Economics and Geography in Children's Books
    • Information Please Atlas
    • Library of Congress Country Studies
    • National Geographic Maps and Geography
    • U.S. Census Bureau - Geography
    • U.S. State Department Background Notes
  • Flags
    • Flags of the World
    • U.S. Flags
    • World Flag Database

• Citation Guides (top)
  Guides to format your paper and create your works cited or bibliography page.
  • APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet
  • APA Documentation
  • MLA
  • Noodletools

• Dictionaries/Thesauri (top)
  Dictionaries and thesauri to find the meaning of words
  • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
  • One Look Dictionaries
  • Rhyming Dictionaries
  • Roget's Thesaurus

• Economics and Math (top)
  Information on finance, banking and the stock market. Convert common measurements.
  • Economic Education Web
  • Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Stock Market Game
  • Units Converter
  • Yahoo Finance
  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

• General Reference/Encyclopedias (top)
  Access to comprehensive sites on all subjects.
  • Columbia Encyclopedia
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet
  • Library Spot
  • IPL Reference
  • MGPL Webrary (Reference links organized by Dewey Decimal)
  • Refdesk.com
  • Virtual Reference Desk

• Government (top)
  Resources on branches of the U.S. Government including statistics, laws and other facts.
  • Fed Stats
  • FirstGov.gov
  • Library of Congress - Thomas
  • Project Vote Smart
  • The White House
  • U.S. House of Representatives
  • U.S. Senate

• History (top)
  Information on World and U.S. History. Also offers teaching tools, archives and photography databases.
  • Ancient Civilizations
  • EyeWitness to History
  • History Channel - Speeches
  • History Matters
  • Library of Congress American Memory
  • National Archives - U.S. History
  • This Day In History
  • U.S. History

• News (top)
  Prominent news organizations online.
  • CNN
  • C-SPAN
  • MSNBC
  • NY Times
  • USA Today
  • Washington Post

• PBS Video Database (top)
  Supplemental classroom resources to accompany the videos and DVD's from PBS's American History Collection.

• People (top)
  Facts and quotes about famous people.
  • A&E's Biography.com
  • Bartlett's Quotations
  • Information Please Biography
  • U.S. Census Bureau - People