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Search the library's web-based catalog, ILink, for general or specific topics on
World History.
To gather general background information on your topic and to become familiar with the scope and issues embodied by your topic, many times it is profitable to start with material contained in general encyclopedias. The Luce Library has access to a number of electronic encyclopedias. These are:
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia as well as Merriam-Webster´s Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. EB Online also offers an Internet Directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated and reviewed by Britannica authors. - Grolier Online
Grolier Online is an electronic resource that contains three separate encyclopedia collections. All three encyclopedias can be searched together or separately. Searching the comprehensive collection is beneficial for initial information gathering.
Encyclopedia Americana Online
This online encyclopedia will provide full-text articles and links to related encyclopedia articles. Authoritative web sites are supplied as well as journal articles from selected EBSCO periodicals.Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Full text articles, web links and journal articles from EBSCO selected periodicals are available as well as image, audio and video files.
Reference Works for World History
REF 909 E56
Encyclopedia of World
History.
Events, figures, concepts from prehistory to the
present day.
REF 902 L27 E5
An Encyclopedia of World
History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern.
Concise
outlines of political, military and diplomatic history.
REF 902 M38
A Graphic Guide to World
History
Identifies historical characters, movements and events,
placing them in the context of global history.
REF 902.02 G88
The Timetables of History:
A Historical Linkage of People and Events.
Contemporary names and
events in various fields, presented in parallel columns.
REF 960 C17
Cambridge History of
Africa
Scholarly articles on African history from 500 BC to 1870,
chronologically arranged.
REF 952 C17
The Cambridge History of
Japan.
Scholarly work covering ancient Japan to the 20th century.
REF 940 C55
Chronology of European
History, 15,000 BC to 1997
Articles on significant events in
European history.
REF 950 E565
Encyclopedia of Asian
History.
Aimed at the general reader, entries cover the area from
Iran to the Philippines, excluding Russia.
REF 940 M19
Magill's History of
Europe.
Articles on events in Europe from 1750 B.C.
to 1992.
REF 910.3 W92
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the
Nations of the United Nations. Gale Group Staff.
A wealth
of demographic information and bibliographies for individual countries.
REF 930 G78
Great lives from history. Ancient
and medieval series.
Biographical sketches of 459 chronologically
and geographically diverse individuals.
REF 920 M19
Great Lives from History.
Renaissance to 1900 Series.
2000 word biographical articles about
481 famous people from the Renaissance.
REF 920.72 C73
Women in World History: A
Biographical Encyclopedia.
Lives of more than 10,000
women from antiquity to the 20th century, scholarly treatment and
international
coverage.
Ebsco Academic
Search Premiere
Provides access to articles from scholarly
journals.
Lexis/Nexis
Access to the current news and to
a comprehensive news archive; includes full text for 65 leading U.S. and
international newspapers (Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch);
provides access to the New York Times and to the Washington Post dating
back to 1980.
Also provides transcripts of major TV and radio
broadcasts and constantly updated wire service reports.
Internet Sites for World History Primary Sources
General Information
Hanover Historical Texts Project European documents arranged by major by historical period; primary texts for the United States, South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Internet Women's History Sourcebook primary texts featuring women's lives from ancient to modern times.
National Information
EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations arranged by
country
European Enlightment
Reader: "readings are a set of primary texts that should be the center
of any study or understanding of Enlightenment culture"
Castro Speech Databases: From Lanic; speeches, interview and articles from 1959 - 1996.
Africa Research Central: a clearinghouse of African primary sources
Internet African History Sourcebook from Fordham University
Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates, Jr, from the PBS series
Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: Three volumes of "selected" writings from 1938 - 1992.
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook from Fordham University
Internet Indian History Sourcebook from Fordham University
Taiwan Documents Project: "Taiwan Documents Project was established in 1999 to provide researchers a comprehensive source of primary material relating to the dispute over Taiwan"
Archives of Austrailia: Links to national, state and territorial archives; contains government, institutional and personal archives
Russian Historical Texts: translations from Russian primary documents, presented in three major sections: Russian before 1800; Russian history 1801-1991; Russian history 1905 - 1930.
The Empire That was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated : from the Library of Congress.
British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service : BOPCRIS currently contains 23,279 references to key British Official Publications 1688-1995, abstracts and full text documents are available online.
Scottish Documents.com: complete index to all the registers of Scottish wills and testaments from 1500-1875.
German History Sources: primary documents compiled by Dr. Richard Weikart from California State University, Stanislaus, arranged by time period.
20th Century Wars
Conflict Archive on the Internet: Source material from Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968 - present.
World War I Document Archive
World War I --Trenches
on the Web: Letters, first person accounts, photos, digitized
newspaper articles from World War I
World War II Resources: Original documents regarding all aspects of the war.
German Propaganda Archive: collection of English translations of propaganda material from Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
Cold War International History Project: Extensive archival collection of documents maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Documents Related to the Cold War: repository of primary documents from Mt. Holyoke College
Castro Speech Databases: From Lanic; speeches, interview and articles from 1959 - 1996.
CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis : Pdf files of actual 1962 CIA documents
CNN--The Cold War: documents, video & links, from the 1998-99 TV documentary
China and the United States: from Hostility to Engagement, 1960 - 1998: recent unclassified and newly declassified documents pertaining United States' policies toward the People's Republic of China and Taiwan over the last four decades
Other
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela from the PBS Frontline
series; interviews and sections of Mandela's memoirs.
Marxists.Org Internet Archive: compilation of marxist writers with biographies; many authors writings are provided
Jewish History Sourcebook: from Fordham.
The best reference for citing sources used in the writing of research papers is:
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th edition, New York: MLA, 1999.
REF 808.02 M68.
A copy is available near the library's printer and on the Reference Shelf
A helpful tool for the actual construction of an MLA bibliography is
NoodleBib: MLA Bibliography Composer