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Exploring Everyday Life Past and Present

Combining two rich databases to provide a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, Daily Life Online gives life to history and context to current events.There’s more to history and contemporary events than just the names of rulers and the rise of economic systems; Daily Life Online shows how fascinating and fun it is to explore how others lived and live their lives.

A dynamic and expanding database, Daily Life Online’s content will be enhanced with new books, articles, images, maps, primary documents, and more on a regular cycle. Subscribers will receive two enhancements per year as part of their subscription, with the option to purchase additional modules on an annual basis. Future databases, like Folklore and Folklife, will also be fully integratable into subscribers’ databases. In addition, subscribers receive the quarterly Daily Life Online e-newsletter, which provides details of new and forthcoming content, tips, news, and suggestions.

Content features include:
• Greenwood titles (Complete titles listing)
• Primary documents, images, maps, vetted weblinks, Tours through Time features, Spanning the Globe features

What do you want to know?
Daily Life Online offers a wealth of possibilities for research and learning across fully complementary content:

  • Compare the role of women in the medieval Islamic world with their status in contemporary Iraq
  • Put Shakespeare and his plays in their context in Elizabethan England, or explore the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Discover how theater evolved from religious rites, and what plays are performed in modern day China
  • Compare modern day dictatorships with their historic counterparts
  • Examine the structure and symbolism of architecture, from ancient Greek temples to glass-and-steel malls
  • Explore changing attitudes towards sex, sexuality, and gender, from the ancient Egyptians to contemporary Indonesia
  • Follow an ancient Assyrian recipe for fowl, or prepare authentic Basque fish stew