Resource Guide:
Twentieth-Century Europe
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.
- EuroDocs Online Sources for European History
- Historical Archives of the European Union
- League of Nations Archives
- Primary Sources Center for Jewish History
- Yad Vashem Jewish people’s memorial to the Holocaust
- Time LightBox
- Perry-Castañeda Map Collection University of Texas
- Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000
- European History Primary Sources
- EU Screen
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.
- Europe, History, 1914
- Europe, Armed Forces, History, 20th Century
- Europe, Civilization, 20th Century
- Europe, Social Conditions, 20th Century
- Europe, Administrative and Political Divisions, History, 1918-1945
- Europe, Autonomy and Independence Movements, History, 20th Century
- Europe, Central, Civilization, 20th Century
- Europe, Central, Economic Conditions, 20th Century
- Europe, Central, History, 20th Century
- Europe, Economic Integration, History, 20th Century
- Europe, Eastern, Economic Conditions, 1945-1989
- Europe, Eastern, Politics and Government, 1945
- Europe, Eastern, Ethnic Relations, History, 20th Century
- European Union Countries, Economic Integration
- Europe, Archival Resources
- Europe, Boundaries, History, 20th Century
- Europe, Western, Emigration and Immigration, History, 20th Century
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
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.
- Social Europe Journal
- Europe
- Europe in Figures: Eurostat Yearbook
- European Affairs
- European Journal of International Law
- Economic History Review
- European Journal of Political Research
- European Review of History
- European Social Policy
- European Union Studies Association Review
- German Life and Letters
- German Quarterly
- Russian Studies in History
- Swiss Political Science Review
- European History Quarterly
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 |
|---|---|
| Europe united : power politics and the making of the European Community | JZ 1570 .A5 R67 2011 |
| Sociology of the European Union | HN 373.5 .S65 2011 |
| Sexuality in Europe: A twentieth-century history | HQ 18 .E8 H47 2011 |
| The Monuments men: Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history | D 810 .A7 E23 2009 |
| Women in twentieth-century Europe | HQ 1587 .A45 2007 |
| FDR and the Jews | E 807 .B745 2013 |
| The Russian roots of Nazism | DD 78 .R87 K45 2004 |
| One hundred years of socialism | HX 238 .S27 1996 |
| The violent muse : violence and the artistic imagination in Europe 1910-1939 | HX 240.7 .A6 B73 |
| The European challenges post-1992: shaping factors, shaping actors | D 2009 .E878 1993 |
| From Sarajevo to Potsdam | CB 425 .T38 |
| The Belgian economy in the twentieth century | e-Book |
| The European economy 1914-2000 | e-Book |
| Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 | e-Book |
| Federalism and European union the building of Europe, 1950-2000 | e-Book |
| The German economy in the twentieth century | e-Book |
| Population politics in twentieth-century Europe | e-Book |
| Hitler’s museum | DVD N 8796.3 Hitler’s Museum |