Baker College
Research Guides
- Library Resources
- Research Guides
- Online Resources
- History/Geography/Culture
Online Resources
History/Geography/Culture
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
- African-American History Online This link opens in a new window African-American History Online covers more than 500 years of African-American history from the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement to the present day. Included are topical entries, biographies, primary source documents, images, timelines, and maps and charts.
- American History Online This link opens in a new window Articles, images, videos, maps and charts that cover more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
- American Indian History Online This link opens in a new window Articles, images, videos, and maps covering more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.
- American Women's History Topic Center This link opens in a new window Articles, images, charts, and videos covering the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.
- Ancient and Medieval History Online This link opens in a new window Articles, images, maps and charts that cover the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
- A to Z Maps Online (World Trade Press) This link opens in a new window Over 145,000 maps of the world, continents, countries, and the United States.
- A to Z the USA (World Trade Press) This link opens in a new window State, county, and city information for the 50 states and 5 territories. Includes articles, maps, flags and images.
- A to Z World Culture (World Trade Press) This link opens in a new window Profiles of 175 countries. Includes information about business etiquette, travel, religion, holidays, women, stereotypes, and greetings.
- Biography Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.
- The Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window A community-curated list of open access journals. The database contains over 15,000 open access scientific and scholarly journals covering areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Over 28,000 multi-disciplinary streaming media titles from A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, HBO Documentary Films, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Open University, Bill Moyers, California Newsreel, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Encyclopedic articles in the following subject areas: biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
- Gale Global Issues This link opens in a new window Covers issues of international importance and current world events focusing on broad issues, as well as more specific events and topics in the news. Includes detailed information on nations for cross-cultural studies.
- History Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window 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.
- Humanities Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Humanities Source is a valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
- Library of Michigan Michigan Materials This link opens in a new window Contains information about Michigan facts and links to the Michigan Collection including County Guides, Historical Research Collections, Michigan Imprints 1851-1876, Michigan Bibliographies and the Michigan Digital Collections.
- Library of Michigan Newspapers This link opens in a new window Contains links to Michigan Newspaper finding aids for news or obituaries by City and County, a list of newspaper holdings on microfilm, newspaper family histories and other newspaper resources.
- The Making of Modern Michigan This link opens in a new window Michigan's unique heritage represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials from local history collections around the state.
- Modern World History Online This link opens in a new window Covers world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries combine to provide a view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Includes a dictionary tool with more than 34,000 entries.
- Salem History This link opens in a new window Includes Encyclopedia of American Business, Great Events from History, Great Lives from History, and Milestone Documents.
