History & Culture
- African-American History Online
- African-American History Online is a comprehensive reference database, covering more than 500 years of African-American history—from the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement to the present day. Thousands of extensively hyperlinked and informative entries include topical entries, biographies, primary source documents, images, timelines, and maps and charts.
- American History Online
- American History Online is a comprehensive and authoritative reference to the most important individuals, events, and topics in U.S. history. The thousands of entries—topical entries, biographies, maps, timeline entries, primary source documents, and images—are hyperlinked and allow users a path to related entries. Extensive overview essays provide detail on each time period.
- American Indian History Online
- American Indian History Online is an authoritative reference database that provides in-depth coverage of more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders. More than 500 Native American groups are covered in hyperlinked entries, including topical entries, primary source documents, biographies, maps, images, and timelines. The content is also searchable by tribe and culture area.
- American Women's History Online
- American Women's History Online is an authoritative reference database, extensively hyperlinked, providing thousands of entries—biographies, topical entries, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and images—that are essential to understanding the experiences of women throughout U.S. history.
- Ancient and Medieval History Online
- Focusing on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Ancient and Medieval History Online gives a balanced, global view of the world in ancient and medieval times. Thousands of entries on events, people, and primary source documents are hyperlinked and allow users a comprehensive and comparative view of the pre-modern world.
- AP Images
- An electronic library containing current Associated Press photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.
- Biographies Plus
- Biographical coverage of notable, famous and historical figures in over 56,000 profiles, articles and essays. Includes 20,000 images.
- Country Background Notes
- These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the State Department's regional bureaus.
- CQ Researcher
- In-depth, non-biased full-text coverage of current political and social issues such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
- History Database Center
- Search multiple history databases for American, Native American, African-American, World, Ancient, and Women’s history resources. Jr. High through High School.
- Modern World History Online
- Modern World History Online covers the important people and events of world history from the age of exploration in the mid-15th century through the modern era. Topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timeline entries provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, and events that have defined world history.
- World Atlas Online
- More than 1,200 printable, full-color maps and over 270 flags, accompanied by statistics, images, and information about geography, government, history and culture for more than 200 countries and territories, the 50 U.S. states, and the 13 Canadian provinces.