HIST B361 Europe in the 20th Century  

Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Start here for a general search on your topic
• Encyclopedia articles often lead researchers to the most important books and articles on the selected topic

If you know what you are interested in then select one of the specific resources below.

• Encyclopedia of European Social History, 2001
• Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, 2006
• Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, 2007

Country Studies from the Library of Congress

• Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, and political systems of countries
• Covers 101 countries and regions
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Take a look in IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog) for books, journals and government information. Experienced researchers use Boolean operators and other search techniques for the most precise results, which is a big timesaver!

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To find primary sources try a keyword search and then add one of the special subject terms to your search: correspondence, diaries, interviews pamphlets, personal narratives, sources

Example:
'world war' AND diaries

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Academic Search Premier

• Contains hundreds of scholarly history journals that focus on modern Europe
• Most current articles in European History
• Some articles are full text from 1975 to present
• Use the reference link to find related articles

JSTOR

• Find full text scholarly articles in journals
• Typically, coverage of a journal starts with its first issue and ends 2-7 years ago
• Remember to narrow your search by date, discipline and type of document to get precise results
• One minute demonstration available here

more history databases...

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All the electronic resources you see here can be accessed in the A to Z on the library homepage.

Newspapers & Periodicals

LexisNexis Academic

• Major European newspapers available from the 1990's to the present

Search Tips

How to search only the newspapers from certain countries in LexisNexis Academic:

View a 2 minute demonstration or follow the steps below.

1 - Select the Sources tab at the top of the page

2 - Search in the Find a Source box on the right OR use the drop down menu to select a country or geographic region

3 - Select publications and click OK - Continues

4 - Now you will be able to search only the selected publications

Finally, use connectors to show relationship of terms, e.g., cat AND dog, john W/2 smith

Onlinenewspapers.com

• Some newspapers listed will have older articles available
• Excellent for accounts of recent events

Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-1985

• The entire newspaper is digitally captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
• Covers 1785 to 1985

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Personal Narratives

In the First Person

• Indexes first person narratives from the 1550s to the present
• Includes letter entries, diary entries, and oral histories
• Select Places and then the country of interest

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

• Full text drawn from 290 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings
• 569 full text documents available for the years 1901 to 1950
• Covers the years 1500 to 1950

Statistics

International historical statistics, Europe, 1750-1988 (Reference HA1107 .M5 1992)

more Primary Resources...

Websites

 EuroDocs

• Links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents
• Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations
• Includes links to primary sources by country

History On-Line: Europe

• Links to general resources about Europe and specific countries
• Collection of primary and secondary sources available online

Modern History Sourcebook

• Collection of primary sources available on the internet
• Eastern Europe Since 1945, Nazism, Holocaust and many more....

Highly Recommended for History students

Kate Turabian's A Manual For Writers Of Term Papers, Thesis, And Dissertations. The latest edition of Turabian is located at the Service Desk (Reference LB2369 .T8 1996)

A sample of Turabian style footnotes and reference list entries is available on the Web.