Gale In Context: U.S. History
MAKE HISTORY MORE APPROACHABLE
ACCESS COMPREHENSIVE CONTENT
Provide students extensive coverage of historical events. This collection contains millions of articles from periodicals and newspapers; hundreds of thousands of topic and event overviews; biographies; and rich multimedia, including images, videos, audio, and web links.
GAIN A BROADER PERSPECTIVE
Deliver an unparalleled look into the American experience. Students will have the power to explore a wide variety of topics ranging from the arrival of the Vikings in North America to the first shots of the Civil War and on through to the civil rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.
UTILIZE CLASSROOM-READY CONTENT
Pinpoint comprehensive media-rich collections to help learners evaluate content in diverse formats and enhance their critical thinking skills.
NAVIGATE EASILY ACROSS TOPICS
Offer a user-friendly experience. This resource allows students more time with content and less time learning navigation tools.
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Provide an Accessible, Efficient Platform
PLATFORM TOOLS
Accommodate learners with on-demand article translation into 50 languages and ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology into more than 20 languages.
CITATION TOOLS
Integrated directly into the user’s workflow, MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard style citations are supported and can be easily exported to citation services like EasyBib or NoodleTools.
HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES
Organize, save, and share highlights and annotations within content.
SEARCH FUNCTIONS
Researchers can search by Lexile range or find content based on basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of complexity
MASTER WORKFLOW
Expand access and increase discovery by integrating Gale resources into your learning management system. Add to that the power of Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365 tools, which enable users to easily share, save, and download content— including highlights and notes.
PART OF THE AWARD-WINNING GALE IN CONTEXT SUITE
The Gale In Context suite of student databases meets the needs of today’s learners with a user-friendly, mobile-responsive design. Eye-catching, engaging, topical resources provide current, authoritative, media-rich content that seamlessly integrates with curriculum-aligned materials that span core subject areas.
GET THE MOST VALUE OUT OF YOUR INVESTMENT
Gale In Context: For Educators gives teachers the power to amplify the rich content within Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints in their classrooms.
When used in conjunction with For Educators, teachers can:
- Access prebuilt lesson plans for literature resources with differentiation tools and quizzes to check for student understanding.
- Use curation tools to collect a variety of resources into lesson folders, making it easier to pair Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints content with other contextual Gale content or outside materials and links that might be useful.
- Customize assignments to embed instructions, writing prompts, or critical-thinking questions, all within existing student workflows.
FEATURED TESTIMONIAL
“We emphasize that one of the most important skills students need is the ability to effectively search and find high-quality research resources, and Gale’s databases are an essential component of this skill set.”
- Library Media Technician, San Luis Obispo High School
Additional Details
subjects covered
- U.S. History
Platform Features & Tools
Translation Tools
ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology, and on-demand text translation into over 50 languages.
Workflow Tools
Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365 tools enable users to share, save, and download content—including highlights and notes. Learn More
Citation Tools
Integrated directly into the user’s workflow, formatted citations can be easily imported from single or multiple documents to services like EasyBib or NoodleTools. MLA-, APA-, and Chicago-style citations are supported.
Reviews & Testimonials
“I knew that it made a lot of sense to have Gale products since students were using G Suite for Education. Also, teachers were looking for current research material, which In Context databases provided.”
“By limiting the content allowed into the search pool, databases such as the two reviewed here [U.S. History in Context and World History in Context] avoid burying researchers with the sheer number of results returned in an open Web search.”
