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8 Language Arts: Literary Nonfiction: Bend III

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Britannica

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Explora Middle School: EBSCO

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Culture Grams

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Issues and Controversies in American History: Infobase

Includes Modern World History as well as Ancient and Medieval History

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Note-Taking

Images

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Google Images 

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Wikimedia Commons

It will provide dates and other information necessary to cite a photograph. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description page. The Wikimedia Commons database itself and the texts in it are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Flickr

Millions of photographs uploaded by Flickr users. In Advance Search, choose Creative Commons licenses for reusable images.

Flickr Commons

The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives. It was launched in partnership with The Library of Congress

Wellcome Collection 

Find thousands of freely licensed digital books, artworks, photos and images of historical library materials and museum objects.

 

The following image databases are some of the largest, highest-quality image databases available on the world wide web.  All of them have extensive coverage of visual images relevant to all content areas.

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