Highlights of the 20th Century

Highlights of the 20th Century

Encyclopaedias

• • Encyclopaedia Britannica High

  • Salem (Password needed from librarian)

    • The 1920s in America

    • The 1990s in America

    • Great Events from History: Modern Scandals

    • Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century

Databases

• • 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and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.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

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