About This Product
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.
- Controversies in History: Editorially selected pro/con articles on many high-interest controversies in history can be found in Modern World History, enabling researchers to grasp the essence and importance of every conflict and the reasons people 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.
- 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 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.
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“…particularly useful for teachers and librarians to use as a teaching and research tool.”
American Reference Books Annual
“…simple to use and contains a substantial amount of information, laid out in an aesthetically pleasing manner…Recommended…”
Reference Reviews
“…[goes] into great depth…and feature[s] primary sources that are useful and often required for assignments.”
Library Journal
“…highly recommended for small and medium-sized public, academic, and school libraries…easy to use…extremely student-friendly.”
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VOYA
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Reference Reviews
“…offer[s] full-text access to information…a valuable addition to the electronic research collections of most libraries.”
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Modern World History: 2018 Updates
Modern World History is continuously updated and enhanced, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Here is a recap of some of the content updates made so far this year. Read More ›
Modern World History: 2018 Updates
Modern World History is continuously updated and enhanced, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Here is a recap of some of the content updates made so far this year.
- Authoritative sources: Added seven new volumes from the Milestones in World History series:
- The Chinese Cultural Revolution
- The Manhattan Project
- The Bolshevik Revolution
- The Perry Expedition and the Opening of Japan
- D-Day and the Liberation of France
- The Collapse of the Soviet Union
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Videos: Added 280 new video clips, including from the three-part Guns, Germs, and Steel series by National Geographic (Out of Eden, Conquest, and Into the Tropics), based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
- Primary sources: Added 20 new documents with detailed introductory notes, including excerpts from:
- “The Myth of Quetzalcoatl,” which played a role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
- An excerpt from the Malleus Maleficarum (1486), a theological guidebook for identifying, prosecuting, and executing witches written by two Dominican friars
- An excerpt from Bartolomé de las Casas’s Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542)
- An excerpt from the 1621 Charter of the Dutch West India Company established to manage the trade and exploit the resources of Dutch colonies in the Americas
- The Sugar Act of 1764, imposed on the American colonies by the British parliament to raise revenue
- Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899.
- Timelines: Updated regularly.
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Modern World History: Guns, Germs, and Steel and More
Approximately 240 video clips have just been added to Modern World History, including clips from the three-part Guns, Germs, and Steel series by National Geographic. Read More ›
Modern World History: Guns, Germs, and Steel and More
Approximately 240 video clips have just been added to Modern World History, including clips from the three-part Guns, Germs, and Steel series by National Geographic. Based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, this classic series follows humankind’s bumpy journey from the Ice Age to the information age to reveal the root cause of global inequality: geography. Commentary by Diamond himself as well as by international historians, archaeologists, and scientists is combined with documentary footage, dramatic reconstructions, and computer animation to investigate the forces that have shaped the past—and are shaping the future.
The three parts of the Guns, Germs, and Steel series are:
- Out of Eden, including the video clips History of Conquest, Early Hunter-Gatherers, and Civilization and Determinism
- Conquest, including the video clips Conquest by Disease, Hernan Cortes and the Aztecs, and Old World vs. New World
- Into the Tropics, including the video clips Quest for Global Conquest, and African Diversity: Languages, and Africa and Malaria
In addition to the video clips, five new volumes from the Milestones in World History series have also been added:
- The Chinese Cultural Revolution
- The Manhattan Project
- The Bolshevik Revolution
- The Perry Expedition and the Opening of Japan
- D-Day and the Liberation of France
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Modern World History: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Modern World History has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Read More ›
Modern World History: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Modern World History has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource.
Recent Updates and Additions:
- New articles: Added 700 new entries on topics spanning the entire modern world history curriculum. The authoritative sources added include:
- Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe
- The Sinking of the USS Maine
- The Treaty of Paris
- The Monroe Doctrine
- Sputnik and Explorer I
- The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon
- The End of Apartheid in South Africa
- The Great Irish Famine
- The Marshall Plan.
- Updated articles: Updated 700 entries on Latin American, African, and Palestinian history from major encyclopedic sources such as:
- Encyclopedia of Modern Latin America
- Encyclopedia of Independent Africa
- Encyclopedia of the Palestinians, Third Edition.
- Images: Added 550 new images with detailed captions on a range of subjects.
- Primary sources: Added 380 new documents with detailed introductory notes, including excerpts from:
- The Edict of Worms, 1521
- The Treaty of Amritsar, 1809
- The Charter Oath of the Meiji Restoration, 1868
- The Palestine National Charter, 1968
- The Declaration of Cumana, 2009
- Statements on Establishing Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Cuba, 2014
- John Kerry’s Remarks on Middle East Peace, 2016.
- Maps: Added 30 new proprietary maps and updated approximately 20 maps, including:
- Ethno-linguistic groups of Iran
- Asante Empire, ca. 1800
- Maasai homeland
- First Saudi State, 1744–1818
- Portuguese trade routes, 16th century
- Genealogy of the House of Saud.
- Videos: Added 120 video clips on topics ranging across the world history curriculum, including the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Cold War, and Fidel Castro.
- Timelines: Updated regularly.
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Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time. Read More ›
Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time.
The Infobase Search API (XML Gateway) allows our discovery tool partners to easily integrate the data from Infobase products into their federated search solutions for our shared customers. It provides a much-needed “communication bridge” between Infobase content and those discovery tools.
The databases that are currently part of the Infobase API include:
- Health Reference Center
- American History Online
- Modern World History Online
- African-American History Online
- American Indian History Online
- Ancient and Medieval History Online
- Science Online.
More Infobase products will continue to be added to the Infobase API.
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History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos. Read More ›
History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos.
More Than 3,300 New and Updated Entries and More Than 770 New Videos (9,500+ Clips)
History Research Center now features a wealth of new content on both timely and evergreen subjects from critically acclaimed Facts On File, Chelsea House, and Wiley-Blackwell series, along with videos from some of the most recognized and trusted film producers in the world. The new scholarly articles and video titles cover topics from immigration, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Latin American history to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Roman Republic, the medieval world, and many more. The updated content on American presidents, first ladies, vice presidents, and Supreme Court justices is ideal for providing background and context to support election-year studies!
New entries include:
- Immigration and Race Relations in America
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The 1936–1944 Campaigns
- Political History of the Ancient World
- The Idea of a “Middle Ages”
- Syrian Civil War.
New videos include:
- The Constitution and Foundations of Government
- What Kennedy Didn’t Know: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
- Inside the Medieval Mind
- Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech ca. 1963
- The Explorers: Five Europeans Who Redrew the Map of the World.
History Research Center includes five history databases, all fully cross-searchable and seamlessly integrated for a complete, single history resource. The databases included with History Research Center are American History Online, African-American History Online, American Indian History Online, Ancient & Medieval History Online, and Modern World History Online.
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