History: Databases

Content: Peer reviewed journals, full-text articles, books, primary sources, and other research materials. 

Purpose: Students can find academic information on African-American history topics.

Special Features: Save, email, and cite materials; Use the topic centers, browse resources and tools for students to help you use database content in assignments.

Content: Peer reviewed journals, full-text articles, books, primary sources, and other research materials. 

Purpose: Students can find academic information on American history topics.

Special Features: Save, email, and cite materials; Use the topic centers, browse resources and tools for students to help you use database content in assignments.

Content: Federal and state cases, federal and state statutes (laws) and other research materials related to slavery in the United States.   

Purpose: Provides access to legal materials and authoritative information on slavery in the United States.   

Content: Peer reviewed journals, full-text articles, and other research materials.    

Purpose: Provides access to scholarship on a variety of U.S. history topics and historical events.

Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse-by-topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature; Save content to Google Drive.  

Content: Peer reviewed journals, full-text articles, and other research materials.    

Purpose: Provides access to scholarship on a variety of world history and current event topics.

Special Features: Includes a visualization tool and browse-by-topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature; Save content to Google Drive.  

Content: Peer reviewed journals, full-text articles, magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and video files from multiple subjects.

Purpose: Students can view a massive amount of peer reviewed research from multiple subjects. 

Special Features:  Includes a visualization tool and browse-by-topic feature that aids in brainstorming topics, a Lexile feature that filters texts by difficulty, the ability to highlight and add notes to text, and a read-aloud feature; Save content to Google Drive.

Content: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.

Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.

Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search

Content: Collection of more than 30 Proquest subject-specific databases covering Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.

Purpose: Students can view a massive amount of peer-reviewed research across multiple disciplines.

Special Features: Includes a Thesaurus feature that assists in using the database’s controlled vocabulary, as well as read-aloud feature.