Social Studies

For accessing our library databases when off campus.

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articles on US history from scholarly publications, reference work and journals, including maps, primary sources, and historical documents.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Features more than 60,000 unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection.

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on world history from scholarly publications, reference work and journals, including maps, primary sources, and historical documents.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.

News and information from reliable U.S. and global news sources

Supports genealogical and local history research, school homework assignments and more through historical newspapers

The experience and impact of Asian Americans as recorded by the news media.

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.

The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.

The experience and impact of Indigenous Americans as recorded by the news media.

The experience and impact of LGBTQ+ Americans as recorded by the news media.

The experience and impact of Immigrant Americans as recorded by the news media

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.

Combining thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers and reports, this multidisciplinary resource integrates twelve complete ProQuest databases in science, technology, education, social sciences, humanities, and news, and provides access to Research Library, a source for core academic content across multiple disciplines. 

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.

General reference database designed for schools and libraries, providing broad access to over 11,000 editor-curated research topics, full-text magazines, newspapers, journals, and multimedia content.

LLC Social Studies Guides

Evaluating Web Resources

News Literacy

NoodleTools Citation Help

Topic Development & Research

Keywords & Boolean Operators