Social Studies Databases
General Social Studies Databases
| Database Names and Publishers | Description |
|---|---|
| American Government (ABC-CLIO) | Foundations of U.S. government connected to current issues and questions about political processes, constitutional rights, and international relations. |
| Country Watch (Country Watch) | Concise, up-to-date information and news on all countries in the world. |
| CQ Researcher (CQ Researcher) | Original and comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. |
| Culture Grams (ProQuest Learning/SIRS) | Links students to country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture. In-depth reports covering 200+ countries, the United States, and Canada. |
| Global Issues in Context (Gale) | Global Issues In Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Multimedia includes podcasts, video, and interactive graphs. |
| Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology (Cavendish Square) | Explores prehistoric and classical gods and goddesses as well as contemporary myths found in literature and popular culture. |
| Issues and Controversies (Infobase) | Issues & Controversies explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics. Updated weekly, with a wire-service newsfeed providing the latest headline stories, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles . |
| Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) | Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of current social issues. Continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites . |
| PebbleGo Social Studies (Capstone) | General Social Studies database for students in grades K-6. |
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| United States Geography (ABC-CLIO) | Focuses on the geographic, historic, social, political, cultural, and economic landscape of the United States, as well as underlying the challenges facing the nation and individual states. |
| World Geography (ABC-CLIO) | Focuses on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world. |
History - U.S./World Databases
(Databases related specifically to US or World History are located below this list)
| Database Names and Publishers | Description |
|---|---|
| Daily Life Through History (ABC-CLIO) | Discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful. |
| Global Awareness Project Resources | eBooks and eEncyclopedias that support students with the FCPS Global Awareness Project. |
| Historical Newspapers (ProQuest Learning/SIRS) | More than 45 premier full-text historical newspapers throughout centuries of history |
| InfoTrac Newsstand | InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields with current news and searchable archives. |
| World Book Early Peoples (World Book) | Early Peoples explores the earliest civilizations through interactive features, activities, videos and animations as well as a glossary, index and dictionary, and links to external websites. |
| World Book Timeline (World Book) | Hundreds of customizable, interactive timelines of important events throughout history. (Optimized for tablets) |
History - U.S. Databases
| Database Names and Publishers | Description |
|---|---|
| America in the 20th Century (Cavendish Square) | An illustrated resource that charts the decade-by-decade progress of the United States through the volatile twentieth century. |
| American History (ABC-CLIO) | American history from the colonial era and American Revolution through the nation’s rise to eminence as a global superpower, analyzing American political conflict, economic development, and changing culture. |
| Civil War (Cavendish Square) | Learn more about key individuals and battles of the American Civil War. This resource contains information about the social, economic, technical, and political background of the conflict. |
| Colonial America (Cavendish Square) | Chart the birth of a nation from the arrival of Europeans in North America, to the Revolutionary War and the creation and ratification of the U.S. Constitution. |
| Exploring American History: 1550 to 1877 (Cavendish Square) | A social studies resource that details the emergence and growth of the young American nation. |
| SIRS Decades (ProQuest Learning/SIRS) | Features 5,000+ hand-selected primary and secondary source articles that highlight key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. |
| Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History (Gale) | Curated collection of images and documents directly from the Smithsonian archives and Gale’s leading digital collections. Primary source overviews authored by Gale |
| Spotlight on Immigration and Migration (Rosen) | This set shines a light on immigrants and migrant groups in America from colonial times through the 20th century. Readers will delve into the push/pull factors that caused them to leave their homes for the new land. |
| Supreme Court Milestones (Cavendish Square) | Discusses some of the most momentous cases in the history of the United States Supreme Court. |
| U.S. History Collection (Gale) | U.S. History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field. |
| U.S. History in Context (Gale) | Contextual information on hundreds of significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites |
History - World Databases
| Database Names and Publishers | Description |
|---|---|
| Ancient and Medieval World (Cavendish Square) | Examines world history from the emergence of the earliest humans about two million years ago through the end of the Middle Ages. |
| Exploring Ancient Civilizations (Cavendish Square) | This reference resource covering the period from approximately 6500 BCE to 500 CE brings to life a fascinating range of ancient civilizations for readers of all ages. |
| Exploring the Middle Ages (Cavendish Square) | Spans a thousand years of history—the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the rise of Islam, the flowering of Mayan civilization, and Western Europe in the Middle Ages. |
| Spotlight on Ancient Civilizations: Egypt, Greece, Rome (Rosen) | Interactive eBooks covering the empires of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome that examine the major aspects of each culture, such as its government, its economy, and its religious practices. The collection examines the unique technological innovations achieved by each empire and how its geographic place in the world influenced its history. Includes maps, timelines, primary source information, videos, quizzes, biographies and more, and help give readers a closer look at life in the civilizations of the distant past. |
| Spotlight on the Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilizations: China, India, Mesopotamia (Rosen) | Follow the birth, apex, and eventual decline of Ancient China, India, and Mesopotamia. Learners will discover the powerful influence these ancient cultures and their innovations still have on our world today. |
| World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras (ABC-CLIO) | World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance. |
| World History Collection (Gale) | World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field. |
| World History in Context (Gale) | Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. Reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. |
| World History: The Modern Era (ABC-CLIO) | World History: The Modern Era (covering history from the Renaissance to today) is the latest update of the reference standard of electronic history reference materials for high school and high-level middle school coursework. |
| World War I (Cavendish Square) | An examination of the conflict proclaimed by some to be “the war to end all wars,” including the events leading up to the conflict, the course of war, and its social and economic aftermath. |
| World War II (Cavendish Square) | A comprehensive account of the Second World War, the seminal event of the twentieth century, featuring numerous archival photographs and detailed maps. |