History & Political Science Reference Ebooks

Search the Gale Virtual Reference Library History and Political Science Ebook collection or select an individual title below.

Americans at War Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity Encyclopedia of the Great Depression Science and its Times St James encyclopedia of labor history worldwide Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450

History & Political Science Databases

Academic Search Premier - funded by the New Jersey State library, it provides full-text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

CountryWatch - provides country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world.

CQ Researcher - explores one current issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year (reports start in 1991).

Discovering Collection - a comprehensive reference database for the study of literature, history, science, biography and social sciences.

Facts on File - a collection of interdisciplinary interactive databases that feature a wide range of subjects including American history, science, multicultural studies, women's studies, geography, and careers.
** In January Facts on file will be discontinuing the Personal, Business, and Tax Forms from their service.

History Online is a Reference database containing biographies, events & topics, overview essays, primary sources and more. The content covers American, Modern World, and Ancient and Medieval History.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - provides access to a wide range of news from English and Non- English sources, business, legal and medical information. Contains the full-text for most of the articles.

Omni Full-Text - a cross-disciplinary database which combines and searches Education Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Business Abstracts, and Social Science Abstracts. Contains the full text for some articles.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - contains articles, topic overviews, primary documents and links to websites for a variety of social issues. All full-text articles.

The Oxford African American Studies Center - comprehensive source on the African American experience comprised of five major encyclopedias and content from eighteen additional reference sources from Oxford University Press.

Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study, and are accompanied by supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. Funded by the New Jersey State Library.

Proquest Research Library - a general interest database covering popular to scholarly journals. Contains the full text for some of the articles.

SIRS - all full text articles:

SIRS Government Reporter - contains current and historic government documents, directories and almanacs.
SIRS Renaissance - current perspectives on the arts and humanities.
SIRS Researcher - contains well-selected articles from mostly popular journals and newspapers regarding current social issues, health, science, and business.
SKS WebSelect™ - contains editorially-selected web sites.