History & Social Science

American Government provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government & political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.

From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, American History investigates the people, events, & stories of our nation’s evolution.

Busca entre más de 170.000 recursos, incluyendo artículos, imágenes, videos y mucho más. Incluye funciones como Cronología, El Cuerpo Humano, Estadísticas y Cartografía. Fácil de usar con un interfaz completamente en español.

Para estudiantes de 8.º grado en adelante.

Hosted by the Library of Congress, Chronicling America is a nationwide historic newspaper digitization project that hosts digitized and full-text searchable newspapers from 1789 - 1963. Also available is a directory of American newspapers published between 1690 - present.

Designed with students and educators in mind, Explora provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, and homework.

Created specifically for middle schoolers, Gale in Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Find information to complete assignments in subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.

Student Resources In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Search across multiple resources for high school student research. Sources include magazine and newspaper articles, eBooks, encyclopedia entries, and images.

Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Source features historical reference books, magazines, journals, and thousands of primary source documents. Get the most out of history with over 80 hours of historical video and nearly 45,000 images, including maps and historical photos.

Access the historical issues of the Las Vegas Review-Journal in this searchable digital collection spanning from 1929 to 2018. Each page is a complete digital facsimile that contains every original image - every photograph, illustration, cartoon, and display advertisement.

• Uncover previously unknown aspects of family lineage from obituaries and other news items, including society columns, casualty reports, sports stories, and more.
• Discover timely answers to an array of local questions.
• Spend hours uncovering lost details about local people, places, and events. 

MAS Complete is a full-text database for school-related research and reading. It contains full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, an image collection containing photos, maps, flags, and color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1921) for key magazines.

Have a paper due about a serious topic? Want to now every fact there is about someone famous? Use MasterFILE Complete to dig up hard to find facts. Covering virtually every subject of general interest, it also includes more than 350 full-text reference books, 82,000 biographies, 90,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 100,000 photos, maps, and flags.

The complete, online archive of the magazine, from its start in 1888 to six weeks ago. All the articles, photos, covers, maps, and even advertisements are included and searchable in several ways. 

Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help you assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays and better understand controversial issues.

Digital historical documents from over 500 years of world history, curated by Gale and partnering libraries from around the world.

World Book Advanced, built for advanced students and adults, contains thousands of articles, primary sources, and online books. Contains up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia reference materials.

Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools, World Book Student includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.

World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.

World History: The Modern Era (covering history from the Renaissance to today) is the latest update of the reference standard of electronic history reference materials for high school & high-level middle school coursework.