EBSCO Publishing is pleased to introduce the History Reference Center™, the world's most comprehensive history database for today's libraries, with full text for more than 270,000 entries from a myriad of historical sources.

The database includes more than 300 reference books and encyclopedias; 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies; and more than 100,000 images and historical maps. It also features cover-to-cover full text for 50 leading history periodicals such as America's Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review (back to 1975), American History, British Heritage, German History, Military History and History Today (back to 1975), along with selected articles from nearly 500 magazines and journals. Reference books are from well-known academic publishers such as Oxford University Press, Millbrook Press, Lerner Publishing, Salem Press and many others.

To further encourage in-depth study of history, the database provides access to primary source documents from the American Reference Library, Essential Historical Speeches, United States Supreme Court cases and documents from the public domain. History Reference Center also contains five complete encyclopedic volumes including the Encyclopedia of World History.

Additionally, the database provides world history and United States history timelines, so users can search for information from specific eras. These searches will yield multiple results from subject-specific nonfiction books, general reference books, images, maps, newspapers and historical commentaries mined from EBSCO's deep archive of publications.

Released: Jan. 24, 2003