20th Century Agents of Change

20th Century Agents of Change

Encyclopaedias

• • Encyclopaedia Britannica High (School Google)

  • Salem Press - (Electronic and print.) Password needed. 

    • Decades in America

      • The 1920s  - 2000s in America are available in print

      • 1920s -1940s and 1980s - 2000s are available online

      • Great Events from History: Modern Scandals

    • Great Lives from History. The 20th Century, 1901-2000. Print only.

    • Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia contains more than 30,000 multimedia items including images, maps, games, audio and video. Multimedia is augmented through acquisition and partnerships with Maclean’s magazine and The Canadian Press. The interactive features include curated content exhibits, interactive timelines, immediate updates of important events, and a user-generated content map that invites Canadians to share their stories. 

• • • • A Timeline of Significant Events in Canadian History

Databases

• • Canada in Context (Gale) 

Canada In Context offers information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events. Focused on a Canadian perspective, this is a portal to full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites. Created especially for students and researchers studying Canada, its people, and its history, Canada In Context covers topics including First Nations Government of Canada, Canadian Literature, Gun Control/Gun Registry, and biographies of Canadian figures, as well as information on technology, sports, industry, and more, all delivered from a uniquely Canadian perspective and including encyclopedias, CBC videos, NPR audio selections, global news feeds, and articles from more than 370 Canadian newspapers and magazines.

• • Canadian Reference Center (EBSCO) Grades 11 - 12

Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; over 87,900 full text biographies and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps, and flags. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Includes: Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Living, Teacher Librarian.

• • History Reference Center (EBSCO)

History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

• • Pop Culture Collection (Gale)

It’s all around us and influences our lives every day. This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

• • World History Collection (Gale)

This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

• • U.S. History Collection

U.S. History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Print

• • Oakridge Catalogue

    • Great lives from history. The 20th century, 1901-2000. Pasadena, California : Salem Press, c2008. REF 920 GRE V.I