Resource Guide:
Western Civilization 2

• Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
• CIA in the Third World
• A People's History of Modern Europe
• Cultural History in Europe: Institutions -- Themes -- Perspectives
• BYU EuroDocs
• Nationalism, Self-determination and Secession

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Chambers Classic Speeches (access through Credo Reference Database)
• Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender
• BBC--British History
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Oxford Reference

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.

• Renaissance
• Scientific Revolution
• Reformation
• Protestant Reformation
• Mercantile system
• Capitalism
• Habsburg OR Hapsburg
• Colonialism
• Colonies -- History
• Colonization -- History
• World War, 1914-1918
• Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)
• Versailles, Treaty of, June 28, 1919 (Germany)
• World War, 1939-1945–Europe
• World War, 1939-1945–Pacific Area
• World War, 1939-1945–Moral and ethical aspects
• Cold War, 1945-1989
• Communism
• Germany (West)
• Post-communism
• Democratization
• Neocolonialism

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArchiveGrid
• Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction
• Credo Reference
• Defining Documents in American History
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
• HeinOnline
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• JURN
• MasterFILE Premier
• Military & Government Collection
• Newspaper Source Plus
• OAISter
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Oxford Reference
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
• Wiley Online Library
• Women’s Studies International

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.

• American Communist History
• Britain and the World
• Central European History
• Economic History Review
• European Affairs
• European History Quarterly
• European Legacy
• Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (online)
• The German Quarterly

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.