Tagged General Research
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
Adam Gopnik | A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
A staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades, Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon , The Table Comes First , and At the Strangers’ Gate , an “elegant” memoir of his 1980s move to a peculiar…
George Packer | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer won the 2013 National Book Award for The Unwinding , a biographical examination of the seismic shifts in economics and politics over the past three decades that have brought the United States to the brink. A longtime New…
Susan Hockfield | The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
The first woman and the first life scientist to head the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Susan Hockfield now serves as the esteemed institution’s President Emerita. A pioneering neuroscientist whose work included the…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
Melinda Gates | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
AUDITORIUM SOLD OUT; SIMULCAST SEATS AVAILABLE Couples Ticket Ranked by Forbes as the third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates has been on a 20-year mission to solve some of the world’s most pressing…
Janny Scott | The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott, a 15-year reporter for The New York Times , was part of a team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She is also the author of the “meticulous” ( Washington Post ) biography A Singular Woman:…
Emily Bazelon | Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon is the author of Sticks and Stones , “a humane and closely reported exploration” ( Wall Street Journal ) of school bullying and the empathetic steps students, parents, and teachers can take to mitigate this…
Mary Norris | Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
“A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Mary Norris’s bestselling Between You and Me:…
Patricia Marx and Roz Chast | Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions
Couples Ticket A 30-year contributor to The New Yorker , Patricia Marx is the author of several books including Starting From Happy and Him Her Him Again the End of Him , both of which were Thurber Prize finalists. A former writer for…
Robert A. Caro | Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
In conversation with Dick Polman , "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, national political columnist at WHYY News and contributor to The Atlantic Standing at “the summit of American historical…
First Friday Genealogy
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an…
Michael Dobbs | The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
A longtime foreign correspondent for The Washington Post , Michael Dobbs reported on some of the most important events of our time. His many books include Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire , Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid…
Valerie Jarrett | Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
AUDITORIUM SOLD OUT. IN-HOUSE SIMULCAST TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE. Couples Ticket “The ultimate Obama insider” ( New York Times ), Valerie Jarrett was the longest serving advisor in the 44th President’s administration.…
TrueFlix *
Student Resources In Context
"Thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 800 magazines, over 10,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio…
Research in Context *
Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. Research In Context offers…
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Based on Greenhaven's "Opposing Viewpoints" series and supplemented with Infotrac materials.
Newsbank Special Reports
NewsBank's Special Reports focus on topics of current interest. They include content from sources throughout the world to provide a global perspective, current and background information, statistics, maps, images, websites, and suggested…
Kid's POWER Library *
Quickly find the best resources for children and students from Power Library, Pennsylvania's state run library resource center
Kids InfoBits *
Elementary students in kindergarten through grade five will find age-appropriate content covering a broad range of educational topics such as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, etc. Kids…
JSTOR
InfoTrac Student Edition *
High school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political…
Infotrac Newsstand (formerly National Newspaper Index)
A perfect complement to InfoTrac business, academic and general reference databases, National Newspaper Index makes it easy for researchers to locate relevant citations from five top newspapers. No longer will they need to hunt…
Informe Academico *
Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina. Informe Académico supports Spanish-speaking…
GREENR - Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources *
GREENR, Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, offers researchers an interdisciplinary resource for environment and sustainability studies. GREENR provides news, background information, video, commentaries,…