Social Studies
EBSCO Discovery
Access all of our databases and library catalog together below:
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American History Resources
Includes full-text articles on US history from scholarly publications, reference work and journals, including maps, primary sources, and historical documents.
Covers the political and economic systems of the United States using both primary and secondary documents.
Investigates the people, events and themes of American history.
Features more than 60,000 unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
World History Resources
Contains articles on world history from scholarly publications, reference work and journals, including maps, primary sources, and historical documents.
Focuses on the causes and consequences of wars fought all over the world.
Covers the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance, concurrent developments in Asia, Africa and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation.
Provides in-depth coverage of the ten most significant genocides in modern history.
Other resources
Covers new technology, movies, TV, radio, music, comics and graphic novels, sports, fads, fashion, fast food and other aspects of pop culture.
Integrates biographies from Gale Group sources with related full-text articles as well as of images and links to handpicked web sites, covering all eras and nationalities.
Social Issues/Social Justice Resources
Explores how society shapes and is shaped by controversy—with authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and primary and secondary sources.
Addresses broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues.
Covers current issues, featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
