Research Guides -- History:
World History and Western Civilization
Library Catalogs/ Electronic
Databases / Internet Resources / Atlases
Recommended Reading List for Western Civilization (Ryan)
Recommended Reading List for World in the 20th Century (Ryan)
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MATC Library Online Catalog - Webcat provides access to books, magazines, Reference and Reserve material, audio-visual material
(for example, DVDs), and web resources Search by subject or keyword. Most history titles will be located in the 900’s. Consult the Primary Source Research Guide for suggestions on locating primary source materials.
Other Library Catalogs can also be accessed from MATC libraries web page.
Search the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries catalog- MadCat which includes holdings at the Wisconsin State Historical Library & Archives. UW Borrowing Card: The MATC Libraries have an agreement with the UW-Madison Libraries to provide a borrowing card free of charge to MATC students. Stop in at any of the MATC Libraries to learn more and fill out the form.
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Academic Search Elite or Expanded Academic ASAP or Academic Onefile
Use these academic databases to find articles from scholarly and history journals. Full-text titles include History Today, History Review, Journal of
Modern History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Social History, and others.
Humanities Full-text
Indexes 400 English language periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, art, film, folklore, history, journalism, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and theology.
JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals. Titles include Journal of Economic History,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Military History, Journal of the History
of Ideas, Renaissance Quarterly, and others.
Proquest All Collections
Full-text of national newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune; Selected Wisconsin newspapers including the Wisconsin State Journal, Captial Times, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; plus other national, ethnic press, local, and international newspapers and other publications. Proquest Historical Newspapers (below) must be searched separately.
Book Review Search Tools:
Search "Newspapers of Record" in Proquest Newspapers Database (using Firefox)
Search "Newspapers of Record" in Proquest Newspapers (using Internet Explorer)
Proquest
Historical Newspapers
Chicago Defender (1921-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), New York Times(1851 – three years prior to present year )
Full page images of the Chicago Defender , Chicago Tribune, New York Times. Complete with illustrations, advertisements, obituaries, etc. as they appeared in the newspaper at that time.
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AJR Newslink
http://newslink.org/
Newspapers from around the world.
Ancient World Mapping Center
http://www.unc.edu/awmc/
The Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
A collection of documents in history and law from ancient civilizations to the present.
Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
Information on countries provided by the U.S. Department of State.
Cold War International History Project
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409
Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
In-depth analyses of 85 countries including history, put out by the Library of Congress.
Digital Roman Forum
http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum
H-Net Reviews
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/
Online scholarly book review resource
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Full text historical documents and links for ancient, medieval, and modern history.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/index.html
NetSERF: the Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
http://www.netserf.org/
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Citations
Chicago Style Citations
MATC Libraries History Research Guide
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
MATC Virtual Writing Center
http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/
The MATC Writing Center is available to all students at MATC who have writing needs. The Center hopes to provide support and assistance to students from all programs and departments in which teachers assign writing projects.
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Click on a title to see if it is available in the library.
Ref 912 G649 2005
Goode's world atlas
912 AT881 2005
Atlas of the world / [cartography by Philip's]
911 T58 1993
The Times atlas of world history.
Additional atlases can be found in the MATC Library Online Catalog including cultural and history atlases of specific areas of the world.
Check the Maps Research Guide for additional online resources.
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