From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today's headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation's evolution. More than 16,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, biographies, government and court documents, photos, maps, audio/video clips, statistics, and more

Awesome Stories delivers the stories—and the stories behind the stories—from films, books, history, current events, culture and art.

Biography in Context - Periodicals and multimedia for those seeking contextual information on influential people. User-friendly organization that allows users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies

Britannica ImageQuest brings lessons, assignments, and projects to life with over three million images from 60 leading collections… and growing!

This vast collection provides the original sources and personal accounts of humankind’s social, political, legal, and religious development, as well as some of the greatest discoveries, insights, and literary achievements in the words of the actual authors, discoverers, and knowledge-seekers.

Three unique interfaces to thousands of curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, editor-recommended websites, and three separate databases make Britannica School the go-to site for research for students at all levels.

EasyBib is an intuitive information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational. EasyBib is not only accurate, fast, and comprehensive, but helps students learn how to become effective and organized researchers.

A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Global Issues in Context is a media-rich, content-driven, easy-to-use e-resource that spans the globe to bring essential and balanced information to readers seeking to understand crucial international issues and news headlines with a single search.

A full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.

Periodical database designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research, this database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts.

This database provides students with authoritative historical context, diverse expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources to help them become civil debaters, consider multiple sides of a controversy, and use evidence in developing and supporting their opinions about today's most important issues. A wide variety of primary sources provides context for the issues, and more than 4,000 images and audio and visual files. -

With Issues and Controversies in American History, history comes to life, not as a mere recitation of names and dates but as a series of turning points where the future hung in the balance and opinions raged on all sides. This accessible educational database delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced coverage that provides the background, outcome, and contemporary points of view for every major debate and conflict in American history. All articles feature multiple primary sources, essential to understanding our nation's past.

Chronicling America - Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922.

Content published before 1923 - periodicals, newspapers, and some books.

Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and original content from EBSCO, Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. It also includes literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and book reviews from the most prestigious publications. It offers poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.

The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

University of Michgan - Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text resource covering significant social issues. This database provides pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, and links to web resources.

Articles supporting pro and con sides of current issues. Helps you develop arguments to support your position. Includes essays, charts and graphs, images, and more. Hear text read aloud.

This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers.

Pop Culture Universe: Icons Idols Ideas (PCU) on popular culture in America, both past and present. Provides access to over 3,500 entries adapted, updated, and reedited from award-winning content.

Award winning library of royalty free music from RoyaltyFreeMusic.com

A broad range of historical documents on important authors, events, and subjects in American and World history, along with biographies of the most significant and influential people throughout history.

This comprehensive research database provides easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.

For those seeking contextual information on hundreds of science topics. Content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

This database offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as the necessary tools and instructions to address a wide-range of small business topics. In addition, it provides business videos, a help and advice section, and information on how to create business plans. Offers readers a collection of state-specific resources supported with demographic data and other local information. Completing the database are business videos that provide critical information for business owners including interviews, "lessons learned" features, lectures and "how to" videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.

An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. Authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Ted Talks - 2000+ talks to stir your curiosity.

Over 1,000,000 pages of historic Utah newspapers that can be browsed by issue or searched by keywords, article titles, weddings, deaths, and births. Covers local newspapers from 1850 to 2010,

A virtual library created by the Utah State Library Division in cooperation with Utah's public libraries.

General encyclopedia - Students, Kids, and Spanish language editions. Used for pre-research background information on a research topic.