Great Lives from History: Notorious covers more than 600 biographies of personages from the merely controversial to the extremely negative, ranging from ancient times to the present, with emphasis on their roles in historical events and their impact on law enforcement or popular culture.

Great Events from History: 19th Century provides coverage of hundreds of major events worldwide between 1801 and 1900. The focus includes not only core Western curricula but also coverage of Middle Eastern, Asian, African, and Latin American events.

Great Events from History: 20th Century, 1971-2000 covers world-changing elements such as space probes, personal computers, the Internet, enormous advances in biotechnology, including the mapping of the genome and the first cloned animal, Vietnam, and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
 

 (1867-1970) – provide digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities.  Sanborn maps are valuable research tools for geographers, social historians, urban specialists, genealogists, planners, local historians, architects, environmentalists, and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. Users of Digital Sanborn Maps have the ability to manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and easily print them out.

Each large-scale plan contains detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life across a century of change. The maps provide a wealth of information, such as building outline, size and shape, construction materials, height, building use, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, and more. The plans often include information and shading for steel beams or reinforced walls, plus symbols for stables, garages, warehouses, etc. Also depicted are pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, dumps, and heavy machinery likely to affect the property's vulnerability to earthquake, fire, and flood. Maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, and house and block numbers.