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

• United States History, 1865 - Present
• The goal of this course is to provide students
  with a basic understanding of American history
  since 1865. Focusing on both the domestic scene
  and America's changing place in world affairs,
  the class will return to a number of themes
  America's growing economic and military power in
  the world and the limits of this power the
  development of a mass culture the growth of a
  powerful economy and the efforts to distribute
  its munificence, to blunt its inequalities, and
  to maintain its prosperity the struggle to win
  the rights of citizenship for all Americans,
  regardless of race, class, creed, or sex and the
  efforts of America's political leaders and the
  national government to manage and control the
  changing political, economic, cultural, and
  international situation.

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Mapping History RC to HISTORY Curriculum

• British History, 1688 to PresentThis lecture
  course covers the history of Britain in the 18th,
  19th, and 20th centuries. Topics include British
  society and politics in the 18th century 18th
  century economic and cultural change
  industrialization and the making of modern class
  identities the impact of the French revolution
  on British politics the development of working
  class politics Liberalism, Conservatism, and the
  emergence of Labour politics gender and the
  activities and ideas of women sexuality in the
  19th and 20th centuries imperialism, science,
  and the ideas about race the impact of the two
  world wars Britain in the post-colonial era
  youth in Britain in the post-war era and
  contemporary British social, political, and
  cultural movements.

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Mapping History RC to POLITICAL SCIENCE
Curriculum

• Introduction to American PoliticsAn introduction
  to American politics with emphasis on the
  electoral process, the functioning of political
  parties, and the decision-making process in the
  national congress, the presidency, and the
  federal courts.

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Mapping History RC to POLITICAL SCIENCE
Curriculum

• Introduction to World PoliticsAn introduction to
  the concepts and theories of the processes and
  factors believed to influence interactions
  between countries. Illustrations from both
  historical and recent world developments. The
  phenomena of conflict, international
  organizations' activities, international
  political-economic relations, and strategic
  interactions in general take center stage.

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