Modern World History

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Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Focused Topic Centers pull forward interesting entries, search terms, documents, and maps handpicked by our editors to help users find a starting point for their research, as well as videos and slideshow overviews to offer a visual introduction to key eras and regions. All the Infobase history databases in a collection are fully cross-searchable.

Highlights:

• Comprehensive Coverage: With Modern World History, users can delve deep into their topics or examine different perspectives through event and topic entries, slideshows, primary sources, images, tablet/mobile-friendly videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies of key people, original maps and charts, and more.
• Easy Access to Content: Featured content in Modern World History is handpicked by our editors to inform research and provide guided entryways into the database, plus convenient links to key areas are at the top of every page.
• Editorially Curated Topic Centers: Modern World History features specially selected content on different eras and themes of history—including articles, shareable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—that provides a starting point for research. Topic Centers include:
  • Africa
  • Asia and Oceania
  • Europe
  • Middle East
  • The Americas
  • The First Global Age: 1450–1770
  • An Age of Revolutions: 1750–1914
  • A Half Century of Crisis: 1900–1945
  • Promises and Paradoxes: 1945–Present.
• Suggested Research Topics: Each Topic Center in Modern World History includes handpicked selections showcasing the best resources for each topic—including in-depth overview essays—and providing guidance for research.
• Primary Sources: Modern World History includes hundreds of primary sources, many with introductions that provide context and background.
• Videos, Images, Maps, and Slideshows: Modern World History’s videos, images, original maps, and original slideshows provide a fascinating visual introduction to key topics and themes.
• Biographies: Under “Featured People,” Modern World History includes helpful lists of Enlightenment thinkers, women in world history, Renaissance painters, and dictators and tyrants. Each list includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results.
• Themes in Modern History: Especially helpful for students in honors-level and AP-level world history courses, Modern World History’s Themes in Modern History section explores 26 major themes in modern world history century by century. Organized around such critical subjects as economy and trade, government organization, migration and immigration, religion, science and technology, social organization, and war, the essays trace the progress of modern history across the world, fostering critical conceptual thinking and allowing students to focus on a particular theme in one era and then examine that theme across the span of modern world history. Discussion questions for each theme encourage students to think critically.
• Pro/Con Articles: Editorially selected articles on many high-interest controversies in history can be found in African-American History, enabling researchers to grasp the essence and importance of every conflict and the reasons Americans debated them.
• Overview Essays: Modern World History includes substantial and thorough overview essays giving extensive background on relevant historical topics and eras.
• Book Chapters: Chapters from authoritative print titles written by noted historians complement the thousands of encyclopedia entries, biographies, definitions, and other resources Modern World History provides. Book chapters allow for original thinking and are ideal for an in-depth study of a topic.
• Authoritative Source List: Modern World History features a complete inventory, by type, of the extraordinary amount of expertly researched and written content in the database, including articles from a wealth of award-winning proprietary and distinguished print titles, primary sources, images, videos, timelines, and a list of contributors to the database—information researchers can trust.
• Curriculum Tools: This section of Modern World History features writing and research tips for students and educators, including:
  • Advice on analyzing and understanding editorial cartoons, primary sources, and online sources
  • Guides for presenting research, including avoiding plagiarism, citing sources, completing a primary source worksheet, summarizing articles, and writing research papers
  • Educator tools, including advice on preventing plagiarism and using editorial cartoons in class.
• National History Day: This feature in Modern World History supports the year-long National History Day competition, with a curated list of suggested searches in accordance with the theme of the competition to provide students with fresh ideas as well as the primary and secondary source content needed to make their projects a success.
• Full Cross-Searchability: Modern World History is fully cross-searchable with any combination of the other Infobase History Research Center databases to which your institution subscribes.

Features:

• Search by Common Core, national, state, provincial, International Baccalaureate Organization, C3 Framework for Social Studies, and College Board AP standards to find correlating articles
• Convenient A-to-Z topic lists can be filtered by Topic Center
• Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
• Searchable timelines, including a detailed general timeline, updated monthly, plus regional and era-specific timelines
• Maps and graphs with descriptions
• Real-time, searchable Reuters® newsfeed
• Dynamic citations in MLA, Chicago, and Harvard formats, with EasyBib and NoodleTools export functionality
• Read Aloud tool
• Ability for users to set preferences for default language, citation format, number of search results, and standards set for correlations
• Persistent record links
• Search Assist technology
• Searchable Support Center with valuable help materials, how-to tips, tutorials, and live help chat
• Google Translate for 100+ languages.