History Resource Center: World

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History Resource Center World
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• History Resource Center World provides a full
  range of sources for research
• Over 22,000 reference articles and 500
  viewpoint essays, from 32 reference sets
• Nearly 23,000 biographies
• 235,000 full-text articles from over 300
  peer-reviewed periodicals and journals, and
  newswires (and growing daily)
• Almost 3,600 maps and images
• Over 2,000 primary source documents, with many
  more on the way in 2007
• Audio and video clips covering historic events
• Award-wining, authoritative reference content
  drawn from leading imprints, including
• Macmillan Reference USA, St. James Press, Primary
  Source Microfilm, and Charles Scribners
  Sons
• Print reference and primary sources valued at
  more than 45,000!
• History Resource Center World is relevant your
  students research needs
• Continuous updatingperiodicals and newswire
  stories added daily
• Spotlight features tie current events together
  with their historical causes and origins

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and Collegiate Study

• The comprehensive collection of sources in
  History Resource Center World supports study
  across disciplines
• One-stop resource for studies in history,
  sociology, culture, religion, political science,
  gender studies, geography, conflict, foreign
  policy and diplomatic relations, slavery, the
  World Wars, the Age of Imperialism and in many
  other disciplines across the social sciences and
  humanities
• History Resource Center World includes a wealth
  of academic content
• Essays on key topics in world history, written by
  the leading scholars, reviewed by their peers and
  overseen by an editorial board of experts, all
  drawn from the top universities and institutions
  in the world
• Hundreds of thousands of full-text articles from
  the top journals in world history studies, and
  other related disciplines, providing a modern
  analysis of historical topics and events
• In their own words and deeds
• Primary sources provide first-hand accounts on
  some of the most notable events in world history,
  from the Analects of Confucius to a letter from a
  Crusader to his wife, in 1098
• Audio and video accounts provide direct accounts
  and images of events as they unfolded, from the
  Edison and the kinetoscope to Joseph Salk
  speaking about his polio vaccine
• Fully cross-searchable with History Resource
  Center U.S.!

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Mapping History RC to HISTORY Curriculum

• African American History
• Traces the developments which led to the African
  slave trade, the slave systems in North and South
  America, the cultural heritage of the African
  American in the Americas, and the problems of
  race in North American culture.

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Mapping History RC to HISTORY Curriculum

• United States History to 1877
• A political, legal, economic, social and
  cultural history of the United States from
  colonial beginnings to 1877. Topics may include
  European explorers New England, Middle Atlantic,
  and Southern colonies religious and commercial
  causes of English colonization, Americas
  response to English colonial policy, and the
  American Revolution the Confederation Period,
  Federalist Era, Jeffersonian Era, and Jacksonian
  Democracy Westward expansion and the Civil War
  and Reconstruction.

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Mapping History RC to HISTORY Curriculum

• United States History, 1877-Present
• A political, legal, economic, social, and
  cultural history of the United States from the
  end of reconstruction to the present. Topics may
  include Industrialization, Immigration and
  Urbanization, Gilded Age Politics and Populism,
  the Progressive Movement, WWI, the Great
  Depression, and WWII.

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Mapping History RC to HUMANITIES Curriculum
American Civilization This course will explore
the cultural foundations of the United States
from the period of exploration to the present.
This is an interdisciplinary course which
examines central themes of American culture and
their representation in history, literature, art,
philosophy, and religion. Topics may include
Native American cultures, the impact of European
settlers, the influence of Puritanism, The Great
Awakening, the Revolutionary Age, slavery, the
changing lives of Native Americans in the 19th
century, role and contributions of women, the
1930s Depression, American foreign policy in the
Third World, and womens struggle for equality.
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