LIBRARY

Schauerman Library Web Guides - 20th Century History & Current Events

General 20Century History Sites

About.com 20th Century history  http://history1900s.about.com/

American Memory Project. Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

DidYouKnow. History.  http://www.didyouknow.org/history/20thcentury.htm

DMOZ Open Directory History by Time Period. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/

Eyewitness 20th Century. http://eyewitnesstohistory.com/

History Guide Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe.  http://www.historyguide.org/europe/europe.html

Internet Modern History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Life Magazine Photo Archive.  http://www.life.com/Life/

Stories of the Century. Newseum. http://www.newseum.org/century/

Time Warp. Statistics comparing the United States 1900 vs 1990's.

http://www.time.com/time/time100/timewarp/timewarp.html

Learning Curve. British National Archives. http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/exhibitions.htm

Twentieth Century Year by Year.  http://www.infoplease.com/millennium1.html

Documents

Avalon Project @ Yale Law School. 20thCentury documents.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm

Human Rights Watch World Report.  http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2008/01/30/world-report-2008

University of Michigan Documents Center. Foreign Government resources. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html

University of Michigan Documents Center. Documents in the News. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html

AREAS

The World

Country Studies. Select individual country. http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Human Rights Watch. Region & Country   http://www.hrw.org/

Infoplease Almanac: World.            http://www.infoplease.com/world.html

Africa

Africa South of the Sahara.  http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

Americas

Americas Program. http://americas.irc-online.org/

LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Asia & Middle East

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Report:Iraq.  http://www.carnegieendowment.org/

Iraq Resources. (Journalist Al Tompkins of Poynter Online)  http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=18641

North Korea. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/korea-crisis.htm

Europe

BBC Today: Europe  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/europe/europetoday/index.shtml

News Sites

CNN Topics. http://www.cnn.com/topics/

International News Network. "A daily roundup of the best stories from the top newspapers".  http://netnewsnet.tripod.com/

New York Times News Summaries  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/index.html

Today's Front Pages. 213 front pages from 30 countries.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

World News Network. Can also search by language.  http://www.worldnews.com/

The El Camino Schauerman Library:

Periodicals and newspapers are an excellent source for current affairs and current research in your field. Ask for a copy of the library periodical holdings booklet. Periodical titles held by our library are listed alphabetically in the white pages area, and by subject in the yellow pages area. Subject areas of use to you are Political Science, Law, Government, and International Relations.

We also have periodical and newspaper databases online, for example Ebscohost periodicals database, ProQuest newspaper database, Issues & Controversies and CQ Researcher. Ask at the reference desk for assistance and for information on accessing these databases from home.

Internet search tools that we recommend are: Google http://www.google.com/ , and Clusty http://wwwclusty.com/

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