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| By Gale Staff | At the end of March, we will be migrating Chatham House Online Archive to a new platform. Based off the culmination of years of research and firsthand feedback from faculty members and librarians, the updates to Chatham House Online Archive are in-line with other recent upgrades to Gale Primary Sources … Read more
Americans are stressed. According to the World Health Organization, stress is a biological response to a challenging or threatening situation. It’s normal and natural to experience some degree of stress, but not everyone has the tools to manage it well, and too much stress can lead to mental and physical health consequences. No single cause … Read more
| By Gale Staff | April 2024 marks the 28th anniversary of National Poetry Month, a celebration established by the Academy of American Poets with six goals in mind: At the university level, students have a little more life experience under their belt, making it a more meaningful experience to tuck into a particularly succulent … Read more
“My father was a master mechanic; I grew up with a screwdriver in one hand and a pair of pliers in the other.”* – Frank Herbert | By Ryan Lee Price | In an era when character development and plot structure took a back seat to technological ideas and dystopian/utopian predictions, Frank Herbert deliberately suppressed … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Earth Day lands on April 22 each year. With your students undoubtedly daydreaming about summer plans, Earth Day is a chance to reinvigorate learning and prepare your students to end the year on a high note. Education about our natural environment is a fun topic—and a powerful catalyst for positive … Read more
| By Gale Staff | The American Civil War is a tragic chapter of our country’s history. Beginning on April 12, 1861, and ending nearly four years later in 1865, the Civil War claimed the lives of more than half a million Americans. More Americans died in the Civil War than in World War I … Read more
A Pew Research study found that 61% of people under 40 have an immediate family member who currently serves or has served in the military. Of those, 1.6 million children have a parent who is either an active duty serviceperson or in a reserve unit. Yet, many elementary students don’t understand why the last Monday … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | The month of March is now upon us, providing us with the annual opportunity to ponder the conundrum of being invited to celebrate a group that makes up roughly 50 percent of the population and yet is accorded exactly 8.5 percent of the calendar year in which to be accorded … Read more
| By Gale Staff | When Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror Alien hit theaters in 1979, audiences were horrified by the dripping maws and reproductive process of the Xenomorph. However, the depiction of Ash, an android loyal to the Wayland-Yutani Corporation at the expense of the rest of the crew, truly sent a shiver down our … Read more
| By J. Robert Parks | A Raisin in the Sun was one of the most significant American plays of the twentieth century. Written by Lorraine Hansberry, it portrays a multigenerational, working-class Black family living in a cramped home in Chicago, Illinois, but dreaming of something more. It received its Broadway premiere 65 years ago … Read more