History & Biography

• Coverage on a wide range of topics. Includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.

This database is provided by the Michigan eLibrary (MeL).

• Coverage for several of the most popular and heavily-researched biographies and genres.
• Includes those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published).

• Explora for Public Libraries
• Multiple versions of the Explora interface provide unique, age-appropriate content for primary schools, secondary schools and public libraries
• This includes an Educator’s Edition which offers lesson plans, support materials, and professional development resources
• Curriculum Standards Module (U.S. and Canada) to help educators correlate EBSCO content quickly to curriculum standards
• Full-text translation in more than 30 languages for HTML articles
• Reading level indicators (Lexile Measures) to simplify discovery of texts that match students’ reading abilities

• High-definition, color Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information

• Digitized material from the Library’s archives, including photographs, letters, journals, newspapers, and magazines

• Covers U.S. and world history topics and features historical reference books, magazines and thousands of primary source documents

• Content from popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources.
• Covers wide range of subjects including business, health, fashion, sports, and personal finance.

Online access to full-text articles from Michigan History Magazine from July 2009

• Most recent six months are citation only (there is a 180 day moving embargo).
• Articles are text-only; illustrations and photographs are not included. 
• Access to content is provided through Gale OneFile

• ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers offer essential primary source content and editorial perspectives of the most distinguished African American newspapers in the U.S.
• Includes Chicago Defender (1909-1975) and Michigan Chronicle (1939-2010).