This guide is created to support students through the process of finding and incorporating historical information for their ENGL Packback discussions and their ENGL Historical Context Essay
Bloom's Literature: Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Gale Literature Resource Center: Contains up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Gale eBooks: Online collection of general and subject-specific encyclopedias on all major topic areas.
JSTOR: Contains more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources.
Historical
American History: Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
Gale in Context Biography: More than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Find people based on occupation, role, historical period, name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.
