History Reference Center
History Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database that focuses on both U.S. and world history. It offers a vast collection of resources, including historical reference books, magazines, journals, and a significant number of primary source documents, alongside biographies of key historical figures and various multimedia elements such as maps and photographs. This platform is designed to support educators and students alike, providing tools like lesson plans and multimedia content that align with curriculum goals.
Access to History Reference Center is available 24/7 through a user-friendly interface that works on desktops, smartphones, and tablets, making research convenient from anywhere. The database includes features that cater to diverse learning needs, such as Lexile® Measures for text complexity, text-to-speech options for auditory learners, and easy integration with platforms like Google Classroom. Additional functionalities, such as a citation generator, spell checking, and the ability to save searches, enhance the user experience, facilitating effective research while ensuring proper source attribution. Overall, History Reference Center serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in historical research and education.
History Reference Center
Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals, and thousands of primary source documents. The content in History Reference Center includes hundreds of thousands of full-text records from peer-reviewed journals, reference books, periodicals and other sources, along with other resources such as tens of thousands of full-text biographies of historical figures, primary source documents, and images such as maps and photos.
High Quality Content to Support Research & Instruction
Available via EBSCOhost or its own dedicated interface, History Reference Center features a variety of resources to help educators prepare their students to meet curriculum goals, such as lesson plans and rich multimedia content. In addition, articles include Lexile® Measures to address text complexity requirements, allowing teachers to accommodate learners of different levels.
History Reference Center also links to EBSCO's Curriculum Standards Module, a tool that can help teachers in the U.S. and Canada correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state, or provincial curriculum standards. The module provides browsing of specific benchmarks, many which have recommended search strings for successful content retrieval.
Superior Functionality
History Reference Center is accessible 24/7 via desktop, smartphone, or tablet through a mobile-friendly interface, allowing users to conduct their research for anywhere. Smooth integration with Google Classroom allows educators to incorporate History Reference Center resources into the modern digital classroom, and other features, such as text-to-speech for HTML articles, support the needs of auditory learners, struggling readers, and ESL students. Different functions, such as a simple search box, autocomplete and spell checking for search terms, and easily browsable categories, enable users to quickly and easily find relevant content, and other tools, such as a citation generator and the ability to save searches in password-protected folders, allow students to easily save their progress and correctly cite their sources.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books, and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For more than seventy years, EBSCO has partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.