U.S. History in Context (formerly History Resource Center) delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from an extensive online collection of historical information.

Providing a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information, it combines documents from Primary Source Microfilm’s™ digital archives; articles from classic Macmillan Reference USA™ and Charles Scribner’s Sons® references; as well as other Gale content such as country and era overview information, and full-text periodicals and journals. This broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis includes: 

• More than 185,000 reference articles
• Select articles from more than 95 new Gale reference titles not previously available
• Articles from publications like Newsweek, American Heritage and The Historian
• Easy to search galleries containing images, seals, maps and flags
• More than 9,100 viewpoint essays
• Nearly 5,000 primary documents
• Video and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources
• The ability to cross-search World History in Context

Access to diverse and rare primary source material includes:

• Louis Bank
  A Hobo Remembers the Great Depression

• Bill Clinton
  Remarks on the Oklahoma City Bombing, April 23, 1995

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Farewell address

• Ulysses S. Grant
  Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America
• Saddam Hussein
  Hussein’s Speech Upon Withdrawal from Kuwait, February 26, 1991
• Text of NAFTA, 1993
• And millions more