Ancient and Medieval History Online provides thorough coverage of nine civilizations--ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, ancient and Medieval Asia, and Islamic Empire. Covers prehistory ghrough the 1500s.
These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
The rich combination of Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources.
This database covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15 century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and compreative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. If offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of people in world history.
This database explores religion and spirituality in an objective manner, from the ceremonies of the first practitioners to the elaborate rituals of today.
