View our extensive catalog of books and magazines for teachers and young readers or browse publications for readers of all ages. In addition to our print materials we have a number of videos available for your classroom use.

			David M. Kennedy “Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945″ March 20, 2000, at the Morgan Library & Museum Running Time: 54:33 David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. He also wrote Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, for which he won the Bancroft Prize; Over Here: The First World War and American Society; The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear, Part Two (The Oxford History of the United States, V. 9); and is editor of The American Spirit: United States History As Seen by Contemporaries to 1877.

Academic Research Databases available through ICONN, Connecticut's Digital Library, which can be used at the library and from home. While ICONN offers more than 25 databases, those listed below are of particular value to college students

Information from magazines and journals

General One-File ICONN's largest collection of articles from magazines, newspapers, academic journals and trade publications; currently including more than 76 million articles (consists of seven databases, including the college-level resources described immediately below)

Expanded Academic ASAP A collection designed to meet the needs of college and graduate students, offering access to more than 16 million full-text articles covering all academic areas

Academic OneFile an authoritative and comprehensive information collection, providing more than 27 million full-text articles from the world's leading academic journals and reference sources; outstanding resource for professionals and students

Primary Sources

Biography Resource Center This comprehensive collection includes more than 400,000 articles from a combination of 135 biographical reference sources, 325 magazine and newspaper sources, and Marquis Who's Who.

History Reference Center the "world's most comprehensive" full-text history database designed for high school and college students; includes articles from 2,400 history books, references and encyclopedias; 130 history periodicals; 61,000 historical documents; 110,000 photographs and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical videos

iTunesU - "possibly the world's greatest collection of free educational media available to students, teachers and lifelong learners"; more than 100,000 educational audio and video files (many of the separate educational resources listed below can be accessed through iTunesU)

click here to download iTunes without charge; to access iTunesU from the iTunes home screeen, click on the iTUnes Store button on the upper left and choose iTunesU

Students Grades 6-12

History, Geography and Current Events

New York Times Learning Network
an efficient and entertaining way to keep up with the news

Best of History Websites
"aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history resources online"

Portals to the World
The Library of Congress has selected online resources providing "authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world".

Country Studies and Country Profiles
now published by the Library of Congress, originally produced by the U. S. Army to provide information on lesser-known areas of the world; periodic updates