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contains news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more on issues of the modern world
"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.
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)
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Academic Onefile (Gale)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)
Designed for scholarly research, this database supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study including STEM, social sciences and humanities. It includes resources from journals, periodicals, reports, books and more including peer-reviewed journal articles. (View list of titles)
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
Each briefing book features an introductory essay, individual document descriptions and more for topics from Coup d'Etat in Chile, Polish Crisis and more.
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.
A comprehensive collection of historic and current digitized maps. Includes Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the Americas; country, city and other maps.
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.
The International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013 features the complete archive of the International Herald Tribune from its origins as the European Edition of The New York Herald and later the European Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. The archive ends with the last issue of the International Herald Tribune before its relaunch as the International New York Times.
Full text access to American and international newspapers, from the early 1980s through approximately 2018. Coverage varies from newspaper to newspaper.
Along with the illustrations that first appeared in the New Yorker magazine, the online archive holds additional unpublished cartoons - more than 120,000 total!
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