Geography & Culture
Premium Resources
America the Beautiful
Find the latest demographic information on states, capitals, and major cities, as well as complete and current geographical, historical, and cultural information about the United States and its territories. Including timelines, biographies, maps, fun facts, and teacher resources.
American Indian History & Culture
This database offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture, history, and biographies. More than 500 Native American groups are covered.
Lands and Peoples Online
Find an interactive and continually updated encyclopedia of geography, countries, cultures, and current events for students in elementary and middle school.
Recommended Websites for Geography & Culture
America’s Story
American History organized by the era and category. Find stories of amazing people, the states, sports, science and more.
Culture Quest World Tour
The site introduces students to the foods, games, arts, crafts, history, & holidays of various cultures and countries of the world. The site was developed by the Internet Public Library.
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Country and Regional Map Sites
Developed by the University of Texas at Austin, this is a comprehensive collection of maps for all countries, continents, regions, oceans and seas of the world.
RecipeSource
Recipes from around the world! This database contains over 36,000 recipes including holiday foods, international foods, “extraterrestrial and bizarre” recipes and foods for restricted and special diets.
U.S. State Department Background Notes
The government website has information about geographic regions and international countries. The list is arranged alphabetically, and includes a date to indicate when the information was last updated. The information includes the history of the country, government, officials, economy, and more. This is a great resource!
