RCC Library Subject Guide-Western Civilization II

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The library maintains many more resources than those recommended below, so it is important to browse the shelves around the call number to locate other relevant resources.

Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe : from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism (Ref 947 Enc)

States, nations, and nationalism : from the Middle Ages to the present
(940.2 Sch)

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Credo Reference (You must enter off-campus password in the < Library Card Number > field)
Online reference collection featuring full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Click on the following title to search it directly: The Encyclopedia of World History.

NetLibrary (available through NC Live)
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 24,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books. Includes fiction and non-fiction titles.

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Academic Search Premier – Magazines and journals on many subjects including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

Annals of American History – Provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Contains original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews. Photos and multimedia included.

Britannica Online Academic Edition – Over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, news headlines, a guide to the Web's best sites, and much more.

MasterFile Premier – Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present.

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NC Live Media Collection-World History
Videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it is not possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

The Berlin Wall
Tells the story of the Berlin Wall and explores how news coverage differed in East and West Berlin. Includes an essay, timeline (1945-1989), and information on censorship under Stalin. From the Newseum.

Best of History Web Sites
Award winning portal to over 1,200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Coverage from prehistory to 20th century, including general resources and maps. Created by Thomas Daccord, history and technology teacher at Noble & Greenough School, Dedham, MA.

CNN: Cold War
In-depth information on subjects such as the Iron Curtain, Marshall Plan, Korean War, Sputnik, Cuba, Vietnam, China, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Cold War Experience examines Culture, Technology, Espionage, and The Bomb, with articles, images, streaming video, maps, timelines, and message boards. Knowledge Bank offers biographies of Cold War figures, a glossary of terms, chronology, maps, historical documents, and interactive images. Companion Web site to a CNN TV documentary series, Episode-by-Episode.

The Great War
This World War I site includes history and analysis of the war; overviews of the major battles with excerpts from veteran's letters and audio interviews; a ten minute video showing film footage and photographs from the battlefields; and information on the Russian revolution, war memorials, and poets who died in the war. Produced in 1998 by BBC News in observance of the 80th anniversary of the Armistice.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern World
Contents include The Early Modern World System, Mercantile Capitalism, and Reflections on the Trade and the New Economy; the sourcebook consists of both extracts from primary sources and links to other online resources, grouped under themed headings. The Science sourcebook contains a section on the Industrial Revolution (has some broken links). Designed by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.

Librarians’ Internet Index
Internet resources selected, evaluated, and organized by professional librarians. Searchable and browsable.

The Nationalism Project
Contains an extensive collection of materials related to the study of nationalism including: essays, articles, dissertations, book abstracts and reviews, subject bibliographies, a bibliography of over 2,000 journal articles, and links to nationalism-related resources. Produced by Eric G.E. Zuelow, Assistant Professor of European and World History at West Liberty State College.

Periodical Atlas of Europe
Features 21 online maps showing the countries of Europe at the end of each century from year 1 to year 2000. Also includes a few images of historical sites.

World War II Commemoration
Provides an in-depth introduction to the Second World War, including information on each of the major war theaters with key terminology and concepts; biographies of the leading political figures and statistics on war casualties are also furnished. A few air combat films can be downloaded using QuickTime. There are links to other Second World War sites. From Grolier Online with material from Encyclopedia Americana.

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