Infobase Learning Databases

Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture.

American History is a comprehensive resource that spans our nation’s history, with a user-friendly interface and award-winning content. 

American Indian History offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history, covering more than 600 Native American groups.

Ancient and Medieval History provides coverage of world history from prehistory through the mid-1500s, with special Topic Centers on key eras, civilizations, and regions, including the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome; ancient and medieval Africa, Asia, and the Americas; and medieval Europe and the Islamic World.

Issues & Controversies in History places students at the center of the great debates and conflicts in U.S. and world history, exploring the issues as the key players saw them, or, in some cases, as historians have interpreted them.

Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. 

World Religions explores religion and spirituality in an objective manner, from the ceremonies of the first practitioners to the elaborate rituals of today. Topic Centers feature specially selected content on 15 of the world’s religions and traditional spiritual practices.

Comprehensive, authoritative, and easy to navigate, World Geography and Culture is an award-winning resource for the study of countries, cultures, and geography concepts. Every country of the world is profiled in depth, with more than 40 entries and more than 100 statistical indicators covering all aspects of each nation’s geography, history, society, and culture.

Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.

It offers in-depth articles presenting both sides of an issue clearly, coherently, and without bias—made to inspire thought-provoking debates. It's an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments.

World News Digest is an exclusive, authoritative archive of world news coverage. It features current events along with historical content dating back to the 1940s. It includes editorial cartoons and extensive historical video footage, bringing decades of key historic events to life.

Science Online offers a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines that facilitate STEM research and learning. Students can access the full, updated content of science eLearning Modules, which target a variety of core topics and feature Teacher Support materials for seamless in-class integration.

Today’s Science bridges the gap between the science taught in class and real-world discoveries—giving in-depth explanations of important advances in biology, chemistry, environmental science, space, physics, and technology. Featured articles offer related content such as crossword puzzles, cartoons, and questions; additional articles that help place news and discoveries in context; and interviews with scientists that bring the research to life. 

An essential resource for your health curriculum, guidance department, and general student use, Health Reference Center includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information.

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Chelsea House Biographies is a one-stop online resource for students learn about the lives of fascinating people. It features full-length biographies about the most important, influential, and interesting personalities in the United States and the world. 

Bloom’s Literature is rich with relevant content on the core authors and works most studied in the high school curriculum. Find complete coverage of Bloom's Literature, full-length videos of classic plays and films, hundreds of full-text, classic works, a guide about how to write about literature, a Shakespeare Center,  and so much more.

Writer’s Reference Center is a one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this online resource covers the fundamentals of quality writing, provides a wealth of vocabulary-building dictionaries, and presents a step-by-step guide to writing a good essay. 

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is an award-winning reference database for lifelong career exploration and planning. It offers a wealth of resources for users to assess their career goals and interests, plan their education, learn workplace skills, find apprenticeships and internships, conduct a job search, and more.

 Learn360 is the ultimate streaming multimedia resource for the K–12 schools. Teachers, students, and parents can access more than 182,000 media resources on any Internet-enabled device, anytime, anywhere.  Engaging content landing pages make it easy to find the wealth of videos, interactives, printables, audio content, and maps and flags. The entire site can be filtered by grade level for targeted browsing.

Created for high schools, this fully responsive and mobile-friendly curriculum-focused video subscription provides unlimited access to thousands of videos for ALL departments.

The Feature Films for Education Collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. Brought to you in partnership with Global Eagle, this high-interest collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles.

The World Cinema Collection is a great source for film classes or clubs.

It includes groundbreaking films from the silent era to modern day. The collection contains films from around the world to enhance international and multicultural studies. 

Some World Cinema titles contain mature themes or content; view discretion is advised.