About This Product
American Indian History offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history, covering more than 600 Native American groups, through tablet/mobile-friendly videos and slideshows, images, biographies of key people, event and topic entries, primary sources, maps and graphs, and timelines. With a user-friendly interface, this award-winning database allows for an interactive, multifaceted look at the indigenous peoples of the Americas. An important feature is full cross-searchability across all the Infobase history databases for an even more comprehensive view of history.
Highlights:
- Comprehensive Coverage: With American Indian History, researchers can delve deep into their topics or examine different perspectives through event and topic entries, slideshows, primary sources, images, tablet/mobile-friendly videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies of key people, original maps and charts, and more.
- Easy Access to Content: Featured content in American Indian History is handpicked by our editors to inform research and provide guided entryways into the database, plus convenient links to key areas are at the top of every page.
- Editorially Curated Topic Centers: American Indian History features specially selected content—including articles, sharable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—that provides a study guide for a particular culture area or era. Topic Centers include:
- Arctic Culture Area
- California Culture Area
- Great Basin Culture Area
- Great Plains Culture Area
- Northeast Culture Area
- Northwest Coast Culture Area
- Plateau Culture Area
- Southeast Culture Area
- Southwest Culture Area
- Subarctic Culture Area
- Native Societies, First Contact, and the Colonial Era: Beginnings–1775
- Exploration, Trade, and Growing Conflict: 1776–1829
- Removal and Resistance: 1830–1865
- The Indian Wars: 1866–1890
- Allotment and Reservations: 1891–1933
- The Indian New Deal, Termination, and Relocation: 1934–1968
- Self-Determination and the Red Power Movement: 1969–1979
- Contemporary Issues: 1980–Present.
- Suggested Research Topics: Each Topic Center in American Indian History includes handpicked selections showcasing the best resources for each topic—including in-depth overview essays—and providing guidance for research.
- Primary Sources: American Indian History includes hundreds of primary sources, many with introductions that provide context and background—perfect for strengthening critical-thinking skills.
- Videos, Images, Maps, and Slideshows: American Indian History’s videos and original, interactive whiteboard-friendly slideshows offer a fascinating visual introduction to key topics and themes, stimulating interest and providing convenient overviews and “lecture launcher” material.
- Biographies: Under “Featured People,” American Indian History includes helpful lists of writers; war leaders, warriors, and soldiers; political leaders and activists; explorers; spiritual and religious leaders; and artists and craftspeople. Each list includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results.
- Controversies in History: Editorially selected pro/con articles on many high-interest controversies in history can be found in American Indian History, enabling researchers to grasp the essence and importance of every conflict and the reasons Americans debated them.
- Overview Essays: American Indian History includes substantial and thorough overview essays giving extensive background on relevant historical topics and eras.
- Book Chapters: Chapters from authoritative print titles written by noted historians complement the thousands of encyclopedia entries, biographies, definitions, and other resources American Indian History provides. Book Chapters allow for original thinking and are ideal for an in-depth study of a topic.
- Authoritative Source List: American Indian History features a complete inventory, by type, of the extraordinary amount of expertly researched and written content in the database, including articles from a wealth of award-winning proprietary and distinguished print titles, primary sources, images, videos, timelines, and a list of contributors to the database—information researchers can trust.
- Curriculum Tools: This section of American Indian History features writing and research tips for students and educators, including:
- Advice on analyzing and understanding editorial cartoons, primary sources, and online sources
- Guides for presenting research, including avoiding plagiarism, citing sources, completing a primary source worksheet, summarizing articles, and writing research papers
- Educator tools, including advice on preventing plagiarism and using editorial cartoons in class.
- Full Cross-Searchability: American Indian History is fully cross-searchable with any combination of the other Infobase History Research Center databases to which your institution subscribes.
Features:
- Convenient A-to-Z topic lists
- Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
- Searchable timelines, including a detailed general timeline, updated monthly, plus timelines by culture area and era
- Maps and graphs with descriptions
- Real-time, searchable Reuters® newsfeed
- Save content directly to Google Drive
- A variety of integration options and partners, including Canvas and D2L (Desire2Learn)
- Dynamic citations in MLA, Chicago, APA, and Harvard formats, with EasyBib export functionality
- Read Aloud tool
- Ability for users to set preferences for default language, citation format, and number of search results
- Persistent record links
- Search Assist technology
- Searchable Support Center with valuable help materials, how-to tips, tutorials, and live help chat
- Google Translate for 100+ languages.
Booklist Editors’ Choice Reference Source
“…fills an important niche; it is an excellent resource for exploration of Native history and culture, and a valuable starting point for research…Recommended.”
Choice
“…a valuable resource…highly recommended…”
American Reference Books Annual
“…highly recommended…easy to use…extremely student-friendly.”
Booklist
“…colorful…an interactive, multifaceted look at the indigenous peoples of the Americas…As a one-stop approach for accessing a broad range of content, this resource will appeal to all levels of users seeking information on Native history and culture.”
Library Journal
“…recommended for its content, especially the historical documents. Great for introducing students and new researchers at high school, college, and public libraries to primary sources.”
Library Journal
“…an authoritative and comprehensive web source for novice and advanced searchers and researchers. Highly recommended…”
Library Journal
American Indian History: 100 New Primary Sources
Infobase’s latest update to its American Indian History database adds approximately 100 new primary source documents, providing insight and firsthand looks into historical topics from the past several hundred years—perfect for document-based learning and strengthening critical-thinking skills. Read More ›
American Indian History: 100 New Primary Sources
Infobase’s latest update to its American Indian History database adds approximately 100 new primary source documents, providing insight and firsthand looks into historical topics from the past several hundred years—perfect for document-based learning and strengthening critical-thinking skills. The new primary sources—ranging in format from letters and speeches to testimony, peace treaties, diary entries, reports, proclamations, and more—add great value by making history more immediate and real. Students and researchers can consult the Curriculum Tools menu for helpful tips on analyzing primary sources and completing a primary source worksheet.
Newly added primary sources include:
- Observations on Iroquois Government, 1740
- Henry Bouquet’s Letter to Jeffrey Amherst on Defense against Pontiac’s Rebellion, 1763
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Letter to Martin Van Buren Criticizing Removal of the Cherokee, 1838
- “General Miles and Geronimo” (1886) and “The Last of Sitting Bull” (1890) from the New York Times
- Alcatraz Proclamation, 1969
- “What Is the American Indian Movement?”, 1973
- and more.
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Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time. Read More ›
Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time.
The Infobase Search API (XML Gateway) allows our discovery tool partners to easily integrate the data from Infobase products into their federated search solutions for our shared customers. It provides a much-needed “communication bridge” between Infobase content and those discovery tools.
The databases that are currently part of the Infobase API include:
- Health Reference Center
- American History Online
- Modern World History Online
- African-American History Online
- American Indian History Online
- Ancient and Medieval History Online
- Science Online.
More Infobase products will continue to be added to the Infobase API.
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History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos. Read More ›
History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos.
More Than 3,300 New and Updated Entries and More Than 770 New Videos (9,500+ Clips)
History Research Center now features a wealth of new content on both timely and evergreen subjects from critically acclaimed Facts On File, Chelsea House, and Wiley-Blackwell series, along with videos from some of the most recognized and trusted film producers in the world. The new scholarly articles and video titles cover topics from immigration, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Latin American history to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Roman Republic, the medieval world, and many more. The updated content on American presidents, first ladies, vice presidents, and Supreme Court justices is ideal for providing background and context to support election-year studies!
New entries include:
- Immigration and Race Relations in America
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The 1936–1944 Campaigns
- Political History of the Ancient World
- The Idea of a “Middle Ages”
- Syrian Civil War.
New videos include:
- The Constitution and Foundations of Government
- What Kennedy Didn’t Know: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
- Inside the Medieval Mind
- Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech ca. 1963
- The Explorers: Five Europeans Who Redrew the Map of the World.
History Research Center includes five history databases, all fully cross-searchable and seamlessly integrated for a complete, single history resource. The databases included with History Research Center are American History Online, African-American History Online, American Indian History Online, Ancient & Medieval History Online, and Modern World History Online.
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