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Databases on World History

Start with these DATABASES:

World History: The Modern Era (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window
(1500 CE ~ Present)
World History in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Global Issues in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
contains news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more on issues of the modern world
Encyclopedia Britannica This link opens in a new window

Try these DATABASES next:

The Interwar Years
A topic overview from ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era database
Cold War
A topic overview from Gale's World History in Context database
Tension in the Post-War World
A topic overview from ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era database
Crises, Confrontation, and Détente
A topic overview from ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era database
The End of the Cold War
A topic overview from ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era database

Primary Sources (on Cold War)
A list of primary sources related to Cold War from Gale's World History in Context database
Primary Sources: Tension in the Post-War World
A list of primary sources from ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era database
Primary Sources: Crises, Confrontation, and Détente
A list of primary sources from ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era database
Primary Sources: The End of the Cold War
A list of primary sources from ABC-CLIO's World History: The Modern Era database

Depending on your topic, these databases that cover U.S. History can be useful:

African-American Experience (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window
Latino-American Experience (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window
U.S. History in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
"Information on hundreds of... significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources." Searchable by keyword, or browse the 420 "Topics", sets of information on a broad range of historical and current topics.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window

World History in Documents by Peter N. Stearns (Editor)
Call Number: 909 WOR
ISBN: 9780814740484
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
(Contains primary sources relating to Francisco Madero, Emiliano Zapata, Sun Yat-sen, Lenin, Bolsheviks, Mussolini, Hitler, Peron, Hiroshima, Han Minzhu, Nelson Mandela, Palestine Liberation Organization, Chinua Achebe, Octavio Paz and more)
Dictionary of Historic Documents by George Childs Kohn; Leonard Latkovski (Foreword by)
Call Number: REFERENCE 909.01 DIC
ISBN: 9780816047727
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
(Includes treaties, pacts, agreements, doctrines, constitutions and more from various countries. In alphabetic order. Index also available. Use time table if unsure of name.)
Documents in World History : Volume 2 by Stephen S. Gosch; Erwin P. Grieshaber; Peter N. Stearns
Call Number: REFERENCE 909.a DOC v.2
ISBN: 9780205619474
Publication Date: 2008-03-17
(Includes sources on German consumerism, Nazism, Lenin and more)

Try these first:

Academic Onefile (Gale) This link opens in a new window Targeted for academic research, this database combines full text for scholarly journals and selected general interest titles from across the disciplines. (View list of titles)

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GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
This database includes scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, books, conference papers & proceedings and more from an array of academic, radical, community and independent presses from 1970 to present

Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
(Yale University)
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Presidential Archives and Museums
Links and descriptions to 15 presidential archives, from the National Archives.
Briefing Books | National Security Archive
Each briefing book features an introductory essay, individual document descriptions and more for topics from Coup d'Etat in Chile, Polish Crisis and more.
Virtual Reading Room | National Security Archive
archive of declassified U.S. documents
World Digital Library
Access significant historical documents from all countries and cultures. Browse by place, time, topic, type of item and more.
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Content on the WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films. Search by keyword first, and then filter by time period and place.
Marxists Internet Archive
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas, Austin)
A comprehensive collection of historic and current digitized maps. Includes Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the Americas; country, city and other maps.

End of Cold War
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
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This is a collection of primary source documents covering the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s. The collection contains documents from archives in most of the former Soviet bloc countries. They discuss the changes occurring in Eastern Europe and the Tiananmen Square events in China.

New York Times, Historical, 1851-2018 (with Index) This link opens in a new window
This is the archive of all issues of The New York TImes from 1851 through 2018.
America's Historical Newspapers (NewsBank), 1690-2000 This link opens in a new window
Newspaper articles organized by significant periods in American history, from hundreds of U.S. newspapers, providing primary source content.

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full text access to American and international newspapers, from the early 1980s through approximately 2018. Coverage varies from newspaper to newspaper.

BBC World News
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal has given students free access during remote learning. Log in using: Username/Email: schoolaccess@wsj.com Password: wsj123
The New Yorker Cartoonbank
Along with the illustrations that first appeared in the New Yorker magazine, the online archive holds additional unpublished cartoons - more than 120,000 total!
The Week -- Cartoons

Ebook Central/eBrary (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Use your SH email address to log into EBook Central and access over 140,000 titles.