Databases & E-Reference Materials

Presents over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings.

A digital collection of primary source documents covering the lives of immigrants and Indigenous peoples in various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa, and Australasia. Topics covered include land and property, women's history, religion, the natural world, warfare, health and medicine, family, business and trade, agriculture, arts and entertainment, politics, and more. Resources include correspondence, diaries, government papers, business records, land transactions, legal documents, speeches, books and pamphlets.

Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Entries include various images and brief biographies. Full text is available.

Containing approximately 200 articles, this encyclopedia includes brief descriptions of each issue's historical background, covering important statutes and cases; profiles of various U.S. laws and regulations; and details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state.

Covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories, terminology, landmark case studies and experiments, applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports, and career information.

This title presents nearly 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business and industry profiles, geographic profiles, and more.

Provides online access to Literature Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and Gale Virtual Reference titles in literature. Resources can be cross-searched simultaneously. Content includes includes biographies, critical essays, reviews, full-text articles, and audio files.

This database allows for searchability across all available Gale digital archives from a single interface. Contains full text of primary sources in the following collections: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, British Library Newspapers, The Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Indigenous Peoples: North America, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, American History and Culture, Sabin Americana, The Times (London) Digital Archive, and U.S. Declassified Documents Online.

Access encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This platform allows users to search multiple resources at one time. The reference library includes titles such as Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of American History, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Something About the Author, and many others. Full text is available.

Browse and search hundreds of articles about the music of every continent. This resource contains overviews of world regions with surveys of musical heritage, traditions, themes, and descriptions of specific musical genres, practices, and performances.