| By Elizabeth Mohn | Each state and territory in the United States has a unique history and culture that contribute to the larger American national identity. By encouraging students to learn about the country’s 50 individual states, teachers can help students learn more about the country as a whole. Gale In Context: Elementary has … Read more
|By Gale Staff| Gale Pages, your library’s free webpage to house all virtual learning content, has recently received enhancements! Changes have been made to both the user experience and the studio editor, allowing for faster and simpler navigation and updating. What’s New: USER EXPERIENCE Faster page load time Improved accessibility and user interface High-res icons … Read more
| By Amy Hackney Blackwell | All over the Alps, people are walking on glaciers. Or in them. For the price of a cable car ticket (which is expensive because this is Switzerland and glaciers are high up), a tourist can zoom to the top of a mountain with a bird’s-eye view of a glacier … Read more
|By Heather Bassett| As schools settle into the new year, educators return to prepandemic conditions: fewer masks and less social distancing, but with much greater expectations to reinvent education and much greater obstacles to reintegrate students into the social and academic aspects of school. Education is not like it was in 2019. The recent National … Read more
|By Elizabeth Mohn| Every September, the American Library Association (ALA) celebrates controversial books and people’s enjoyment of them during Banned Books Week. Usually held during the last full week of September, Banned Books Week 2022 is September 18–24. The ALA began to commemorate Banned Books Week in the 1980s, when the organization noticed an increase … Read more
| By J. Robert Parks | Fifty years ago this year, one of the most significant baseball players of his generation died when his plane crashed on a humanitarian mission on December 31, 1972. Roberto Clemente isn’t as well known as the iconic Jackie Robinson, but Clemente’s importance as both a baseball player and a … Read more
| By Elizabeth Mohn | Americans celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15 each year, and this celebration is a perfect opportunity for teachers to help students learn about more members of this important, influential group. Gale In Context: Middle School has engaging, up-to-date resources teachers can use to help students … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | National Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off on September 15, 2022, and Gale In Context: Biography has been a phenomenal resource for students, teachers, and lifelong learners on this topic since the introductory volumes of Gale’s Contemporary Hispanic Biography and Notable Hispanic American Women were published in the early 1990s. Today, … Read more
Gale Academic OneFile Advanced Genetics (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Æther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & Spacepower (Air University Press) Peer-reviewed Aggregate (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Aging and Cancer (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Air & Space Operations Review (Air University Press) Peer-reviewed Animal Models and Experimental Medicine (John Wiley … Read more
|By Carol Brennan| The remarkable reign of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II ended on September 8, 2022, when the 96-year-old monarch died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Her astonishing 70-year reign—the longest of any British sovereign—might be measured by noting that when she ascended to the throne of the House of Windsor upon the death of … Read more