Resource Guide:
History of Genocide
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Pogroms--Russia
- Genocide --Armenia
- Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
- Kurds--Iraq
- Genocide--Rwanda--History--20th century.
- Nanking Massacre, Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng), China, 1937.
- Trail of Tears, 1838-1839.
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- ArchiveGrid
- Credo Reference
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- HeinOnline
- Humanities International Complete
- Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- JSTOR
- MasterFILE Premier
- Newspaper Source Plus
- OAISter
- Oxford Reference
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- Wiley Online Library
- Women’s Studies International
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Journal of Genocide Research
- Genocide Studies and Prevention
- Jewish History
- American Indian Quarterly
- Wicazo Sa Review
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The washing of the spears; a history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its fall in the Zulu War of 1879 | DT 878 .Z9 M67 1986 |
| The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents | E 99 .C5 C6522 1995 |
| The mechanism of catastrophe : the Turkish pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the destruction of the Greek community of Istanbul | DR 727 .G74 V96 2005 |
| The killing fields : Edited [videorecording] | DVD DS 530 Killing c.2 |
| Facing death in Cambodia | DS 554.8 .M34 2005 |
| The historiography of genocide | HV 6322.7 .H57 2008 |
| A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide | HV 6322.7 .P69 2003 |
| Hotel Rwanda [videorecording] | DVD DT 407.4 Hotel Rwanda |
| The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II | DS 796 .N2 C44 1997 |
| Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world | DS 22 .G45 W43 2004 |
| The Armenian genocide : a complete history | DS 195.5 .K45623 2011 |
| "They can live in the desert but nowhere else" : a history of the Armenian genocide | DS 195.5 .S79 2015 |
| Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur | HV 6322.7 .K54 2007 |
| Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing | HV 6322 .W35 2002 |
| The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 | DS 554 .K584 2002 |
| Watchers of the sky | DVD PN 2015 Watchers |
| Ethnic cleansing and the American Indian : the crime that should haunt America | E 98.C87 A63 2014 |
| The Rwanda crisis : history of a genocide | DT 450 .P78 1995 |
| The State of Native America : genocide, colonization, and resistance | E 93 .S77 1992 |
| Genocide : New Perspectives on Its Causes, Courses and Consequences | eBook |
| The Circassian Genocide | eBook |
| Genocide in Bosnia : The Policy of 'ethnic Cleansing' | eBook |
| The Anatomy of a South African Genocide : The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples | eBook |
| The Specter of Genocide : Mass Murder in Historical Perspective | eBook |
| Aftermath : Genocide, Memory and History | http://oapen.org/search?identifier=645330 |
| Education at the Edge of Empire : Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools | eBook |
| Boarding School Blues : Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences | eBook |