Welcome to the March 2006 issue of the

Daily Life Online newsletter,

your source for information about the latest additions to Greenwood’s Daily Life Online group of products.

Contents

• New content added to Daily Life through History
• New content added to World Cultures Today
• A new look for Daily Life through History
• World Folklore and Folklife, launching Fall 2006
• Teacher Resources site, now with added correlations
• Related Electronic Products from Greenwood

Available in March 2006, the fourth enhancement to Daily Life Online adds a wealth of new, full text content:

• Daily Life of Jews in the Middle Ages
• Sports and Games of the Renaissance
• Sports and Games of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Twenty new articles focus on "Parades, Processions, and Spectacles" throughout time, including subjects as diverse as Balinese shadow puppetry and Roman triumphal processions.

Subscribers to World Cultures Today will gain full text of the following titles:

• Culture and Customs of Afghanistan
• Culture and Customs of Cameroon
• Culture and Customs of Italy
• Culture and Customs of Morocco
• Culture and Customs of Pakistan
• Culture and Customs of Saudi Arabia
• Teen Life in Africa
• Teen Life in Asia
• Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Teen Life in the Middle East
• The History of Ghana
• The History of Indonesia
• The History of Iraq

As of Fall 2006 subscribers to the integrated version of Daily Life Online (for example, those who subscribe to both Daily Life through History and World Cultures Today accessed through one homepage) will see a re-designed homepage. This reflects the additional content that has been added to the site since launch, as well as taking account of user requests to make features such as images, maps, and audio links more up front. In addition, the entire content of the site is being re-indexed and re-organized. What does this mean? Users will keep their familiar browse and search navigation, but the results will be even better!

Look out for the June newsletter for a sneak preview of the new home page.

This latest addition to the Daily Life Online family launches in September 2006. What does it include? Christmas celebrations, Cinderella tales, Morris dancing, proverbs, trickster gods, folk music,

the Jade Emperor, urban legends, and many more examples of traditional life and culture around the world. World Folklore and Folklife bridges the gap between past and present, and opens up new ways of exploring core curriculum topics such as literature, social and religious practices, history, art, music, and languages. Also including thousands of folk and fairy tales, World Folklore and Folklife brings together for the first time primary sources and the contextual material that explains them.

• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife
• Funk & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore
• The Greenwood Library of American Folktales
• Titles in the Folklore Handbooks series, including: Proverbs, Campus Legends, Myth, Folk and Fairy Tales.
• The complete Hans Christian Andersen stories
• Material from more than 40 of Greenwood, Libraries Unlimited, and Praeger titles
• Vetted Weblinks to hundreds of sites, images, maps, and multi-media resources

The free Teacher Resources site at dailylife.greenwood.com/teacher is already generating a positive response. In April 2006 it gets even better, as we add history and social studies standards from across the United States. Teachers can search for lesson plans by title, keyword, or correlation to their state’s curriculum. Furthermore, all Daily Life Online content so far is fully correlated, so that relevant content is only a click away from the standard itself.

Forthcoming in April 2006 Greenwood is proud to announce the launch of The African American Experience, the most wide-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life currently available. This unique reference work gives voice to the black experience from its origins to the present day, including more than 4,000 WPA slave narratives, now fully indexed and searchable online for the first time. Users can easily research people, events, or subjects and draw on content from an incredible range of sources. Core content includes:

• Major multivolume sets: Encyclopedia of African American Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States; Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature; African American Religious Experience in America; and Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture
• An extensive backlist of nearly 300 reference books and monographs, many of which are available electronically for the first time
• Primary documents, including 90 titles from the Negro University Press reprint collection (a trove of manuscripts from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, among them original works by Booker T. Washington and other contemporary black authors); audio files; images; vetted Weblinks; and lesson plans

For more information visit: http://www.greenwood.com/aae/