A-Z Databases

A comprehensive resource that spans our nation’s history, with a user-friendly interface and award-winning content. Materials include videos, slideshow overviews, and Topic Centers to the lists of key content handpicked by Infobase editors to help users find a starting point for their research. Provides subject entries, biographies, primary sources, videos and slideshows, images, timelines, and maps and graphs.

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. Covering every region of the globe from antiquity to the present, this comprehensive reference database features hundreds of in-depth pro/con articles—all written by professional historians and experts—each based on a broad range of primary sources. It delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced articles on every major historical topic, from slavery, empire, and revolution to race, gender, and economics. Many articles feature “what if” questions, speculating on how history might have turned out differently had people made different decisions.  It is an ideal resource for helping students answer document-based questions, prepare for debates, and write research papers.

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. Focused Topic Centers pull forward interesting entries, search terms, documents, and maps handpicked by Infobase editors to help users find a starting point for their research, as well as videos and slideshow overviews to offer a visual introduction to key eras and regions.