Groliers Encyclopedia

This award-winning multimedia reference brings you all 21 volumes of the renowned Academic American Encyclopedia and more than 33,000 articles on a wide variety of subjects - science, world history, music, art and much more. Multimedia maps lead you on an animated journey through time and make it easy to view individual historical events within a broader perspective. Video sequences feature memorable events like Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Narrated animated sequences offer clear explanations of subjects like aircraft technology, weather and the solar system. A Timeline enables you to travel along a continuum of time, from pre-history to present, stopping along the way to learn more about important events, dates, periods and topics. And, you'll find thousands of pictures, sounds, maps and encyclopedia text.