| By Rebecca Parks | I remember where I was when the planes hit the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001. I was chatting about movies with coworkers at the beginning of my workday, when someone alerted us that we needed to check out the news right away; something unimaginable was … 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
| By Gale Staff | It’s difficult for most of us to say goodbye to summer, whether you’re a student or an educator. How do you get young minds to transition out of vacation mode and tune in to what’s happening in the classroom? Give them something to talk about, of course! Getting off on … Read more
Two hundred years ago this week, on September 11, 1822, the Catholic Church formally removed Galileo Galilei’s writings from its Index of Prohibited Books. Despite the fact that Galileo was a devoted Catholic, the conflict between him and the Catholic Church over the view of the sun, and not the earth, as the center of … Read more
| By Chilton Staff | Called the “River of Life,” the Columbia River through the Cascade Mountains is an area of spectacular beauty. Flanked by forested hills misted by waterfalls, brimming with salmon, and home to millions of creatures from microbiota to beaver and bears, the Columbia Gorge has been sacred to the Chinook peoples … Read more
| By Sarah Robertson and Mark Mikula | As students and teachers return to classrooms this fall, look to Gale’s For Students line for coverage of novels and other literary works with a back-to-school theme. Most notably, the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is 25 years old this month. The publication of Harry … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Seventy-five years ago this week, two of the world’s most populous countries, India and Pakistan, gained their independence. The entire Indian subcontinent had been under the colonial rule of Great Britain since the mid-nineteenth century, and Britain finally acceded to India’s and Pakistan’s independence on August 15, 1947 (although Pakistan … Read more
| By Elizabeth Mohn | A new school year is a new opportunity for teachers to engage students and to find new ways of sparking students’ love of learning. Research has shown that educators can help promote student engagement by using particular tools and methods—such as by reinforcing a topic’s relevance to students and by … Read more
| By Brenda W. Lerner, RN, ALB | An epidemic of Monkeypox is currently gathering steam throughout the world, leading some people to wonder if this is a situation of “here we go again,” but scientists say the likelihood of another pandemic with monkeypox as the cause is very low. Monkeypox is endemic (occurring naturally … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Covering about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, water is the most important raw material and critical resource for all humans―regardless of class, culture, or location. It is so critical to human health and well-being that the United Nations has deemed it a human right, recognizing that those unable to … Read more