Library Catalogs
Find books in OPRFHS Library
Google Scholar
Global Issues for Global News/Current Events
Search Results or Topic Portals on each teacher-provided topic from the Global Issues database:
- Abortion & Ireland
- Abortion & Italy
- Anti-Romani People
- Anti-semitism (choose a country)
- Armenia's Velvet Revolution
- Autocracy (choose a country)
- Basque Nationalism
- Brexit and
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- Immigration
- the working class
- economy
- Catalonia's Independence Referendum
- Euroscepticism (country other than UK)
- Eurozone Reforms
- EU and Africa
- Islamophobia (choose a country)
- Kosovo Independence (Albania v. Serbia)
- LGBTQ Rights (choose a country)
- Misinformation & Fake News Around the World (choose a country/topic/conflict)
- Nationalism (choose a country)
- Migrant Crisis (choose a country)
- NATO (choose a country - must have joined in last 10 years)
- Press Freedom (choose a country - for Russia, see below)
- Putin AND
- Racism and Law Enforcement (choose a country)
- Far right / Populist Groups (choose a country)
- Scottish Independence Referendum
- Ukraine Conflict AND
- NATO
- EU
- Poland
- Belarus
U.S. Periodicals for Current Events
1851 - present; TimesMachine 1851-2002
Account Creation (Use OPRF email.)
magazine with daily coverage of politics, education, science/tech, & culture
Current U.S. Major Dailies
Today's paper available by 8AM every day
General/History Databases
Articles covering a broad range of topics from a broad range of media types
Reference articles from ebooks that can be searched at the article level or by browsing within an ebook
Articles from books, primary sources, journals, news, etc. covering topics in world history
Academic/Scholarly Databases
Full-text articles & abstracts from academic journals, magazines, newspapers & books
In-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics
Peer-reviewed articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
Historical Periodicals
Highly influential Black newspaper during the early to mid twentieth century
Access to articles from 1905-1975
Chicago Tribune 1849-1994
Wall Street Journal 1889-2000
Washington Post 1877-2001
Finding Books Outside the OPRF and Public Libraries
- Search for the title of your book in WorldCat.
- If you see that the only libraries listed as holding the book are academic libraries, use the item request form from the public library and use the OPRF library card if needed.