Background information provides basic concepts, descriptions and ideas about a subject.
Find Facts in online encyclopedias, dictionaries, or handbooks included in Credo Reference, Facts On File Portal, or Encyclopedia Britannica.
For more sources of background information, use the "Facts & Encyclopedia Online Reference" Oakton Library webpage.
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
Each issue examines a single "hot" topic with comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.
Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains reference book titles, pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.