Contemporary Modern History - History - Modern - Subject and Research Guides at Macquarie University

A selection of Contemporary Modern History sources at MQ Library

Cambridge Histories Online
Subject areas include American history, British history, economic history, general history, history of science, history of the book, language and linguistics, literary studies, music, philosophy, political and social theory, regional history, religious studies, theatre studies and performing arts, warfare.

Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought
Call Number: ebook
The Cold War 1945-1991 Volumes 1, 2 and 3
Call Number: Print Reference D839.5 .C65 1992
Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China 1945-1997
Call Number: Print Reference DS777.2 .S85/1997
Keesing's Record of World Events
Call Number: Print D410.K4
Modern China : a guide to a century of change
Call Number: Print DS774.H796 2001
Oxford Handbook of World History
Call Number: ebook and print

Digital National Security Archive
Date range: 20th Century
Geographical focus: US
A searchable database containing many of the declassified United States government documents that led to policy decisions. Macquarie has access to the collections on Afghanistan, China, El Salvador: war peace and human rights, Iran, the Philippines, South Africa, Terrorism, United States, North and South Korea.
The Making of Modern Law: legal treatises 1800-1926
Date range: 19th Century, early 20th Century
Geographical focus: US, Britain
Features a fully searchable database of more than 22,000 legal works on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more."
Oral history online
Date range: 20th Century
Geographical focus: US, and also international.
Indexed oral histories that are publicly available on the Web and that are held by repositories and archives from around the world.
Terrorism and U.S. policy 1968-2002
Date range: 1968 to 2002
Geographical focus: US, Middle East and Asia. Contains 1,509 formerly secret documents. This collection features records from the White House, National Security Council, State Department, Defense Department, Justice Department, and other federal agencies as well as detailed FBI field reporting, CIA analyses, and military studies.
BBC Handbooks, Annual Reports and Accounts, 1927-2001/2
This collection includes all the handbooks, annual reports and accounts published by the British Broadcasting Corporation during the 20th century.

Factiva
Factiva provides fulltext access to news items from a wide range of international sources and key Web sites
Digitised newspapers and more: National Library of Australia (Trove)
The service includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies, as well as some later issues to 1982. The first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the service.
Gale NewsVault
This collection contains over 10 million digitised pages covering global historical newspapers and journals.

European History Primary Sources
This website lists the most important collections of digital primary sources for the history of Europe, either as a whole or for single countries.
MQ Library Newspaper subject guide
For a full description of all our newspaper collections.

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Contemporary Modern History databases

Oral history online
Date range: 20th Century
Geographical focus: US, and also international.
Indexed oral histories that are publicly available on the Web and that are held by repositories and archives from around the world.
Terrorism and U.S. policy 1968-2002
Date range: 1968 to 2002
Geographical focus: US, Middle East and Asia. Contains 1,509 formerly secret documents. This collection features records from the White House, National Security Council, State Department, Defense Department, Justice Department, and other federal agencies as well as detailed FBI field reporting, CIA analyses, and military studies.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
A searchable multisubject database which contains full text for over 4,450 scholarly publications including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Almost all academic areas of study are covered with some coverage extending back to 1975.

All Modern History Databases at MQ Library