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Discovering Collection

Designed for students in grades 8-12, this database includes literary criticisms, timelines, primary source documents, audio and video clips, maps, images, flags, and more.

Famous Black Inventors

Brief essays describe achievements of these African American innovators. Resources for further study provided.  Brief essays desribe achievements of these African American Innovators.

Junior Reference Collection

Designed for students grades 6-8, this database has information from reference books about people, places, history, science, and more. Includes photos and maps.

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century

Personal essays, timelines, and more information about 20 top engineering innovations. 

Student Resource Center Gold

Designed for use by high school students for both homework and in-depth research assignments. Contains reference works, biographies, essays, overviews, primary works, images, and periodical articles.

History Topics

Explore innovation in Minnesota!

Find a broad list of topics that relate to Minnesota history.

Info-Trac Student Edition

Designed for middle school students, this database has full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books in just about every subject area.

Invention Dimension

From MIT, profiles of inventors and innovators past and present.  Be sure to explore the Archive!

Science Reference Center

Full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources covering the areas of biology, chemistry, environmental and life sciences, and more. Each article is correlated to state and national curriculum standards.

Inventors and Inventions

Need ideas for your history day project?  Browse by person, invention or timeline to find your topic!