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.

• 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).

This resource is provided courtesy of the Michigan eLibrary, funded by IMLS.

• 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

This resource is provided courtesy of the Michigan eLibrary, funded by IMLS.

• 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

Complete digital issues of the Grand Rapids Press, the paper of record for Grand Rapids, via Newsbank.

Features include:

• Current issue is available the day of publication
• Complete archive of full text articles starting in 1893
• Full-text searchability
• Includes both print and web editions

This resource is available thanks to support from the Titche Family Fund of the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation.

To support the Grand Rapids Press digital edition Newsbank subscription, please donate directly to the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation with the note "Grand Rapids Press subscription" in the comment or memo line.

• Covers U.S. and world history topics and features historical reference books, magazines and thousands of primary source documents

This resource is provided courtesy of the Michigan eLibrary, funded by IMLS.

• 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).