A one-stop source for news and periodical articles, including scholarly journals and news media, on a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

For middle and high school students, provides information from core curriculum areas using reference material, full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including video and audio clips.

Created specifically for middle school students, Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more. Research In Context provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. 

Gale's U.S. History in Context is the premier online resource providing a complete overview of America's past and covers the most studied events, decades, conflicts, war, political and cultural movements, and people.  

This database contains coverage of history for the last 5,000 years chronicling the rise and fall of cultures and societies.

This database of primary sources in American History provides in–depth analysis of historic documents from the colonial times to the 21st century. Analysis includes document overview and context, about the author, and an explanation and analysis of the document, its audience and impact. It also includes images, biographies and history and event overviews.