Starting Point
History 102: World History: Late 20th Century (Quesnel campus)

This guide will provide you with a starting point for research in your subject area.

Step 1: Define Your Topic

To help you in this process, use specialized encyclopedias and handbooks located in the reference collection, or chapters from a current textbook to give you a short overview of your research subject. These articles are written by experts on the topic and they often include other references listed at the end of the article. You can be assured that the references listed there are authoritative sources and well worth obtaining for your paper. Some reference books that may be useful:

		Ref FC 23 .C36	Canadian Encyclopedia - online version
		Ref FC 23 .O94	Oxford Companion to Canadian History
		Ref D 11 .W635	Cassell's chronology of world history: dates, events and ideas that made history
		Ref D 9 .L33	Chambers dictionary of world history
		Ref D 419 .P32	A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History

Step 2: Look for Books

Begin your research by checking for your topic in the library catalogue. Remember to click the VIEW button to display the long record for an item and then examine the Subject terms at the bottom of the record. Click on appropriate relevant Subject terms to see if there are any other items available on your topic. Some useful World history Subject Terms include:

Asia, Southeastern - History - 20th Century
Chronology, Historical
Cold War
Europe - History - 1945-
History, Modern - 20th Century
History, Modern - 21st Century
Russia - History
Social history - 1945-
Social history - 20th Century
World history
World politics - 1945-
World politics - 20th century
World politics - 21st century
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns

Other Reference Sources

	Ref G 1105 .A8	Atlas of North America
	Ref G 1115 .C37	The Canadian Atlas
	Ref G 1021 .O88	Canadian Oxford World Atlas
	Ref G 1106 .S12 H3	America Discovered: a Historical Atlas of North American Exploration
	Ref G 1021 .H2735	Hammong New Century World Atlas
	Ref G 2081 .S1 M3	Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
	Ref G 1030 .T54	The Times Atlas of World History

Step 3: Use Periodical Articles

Periodicals offer excellent information. To locate articles in your subject area, use the online indexes - Proquest's ABI Inform Global, Canaidan Newsstand and Canadian Business and Current Affairs Index - and Ebscohost's Academic Search Elite, Canadian Reference Centre, MAS Ultra School and Military and Government Collection. Once you have located article citations, if the article is not in fulltext online, click on the Where can I get this? button to see if the journal is available in either the CNC or UNBC libraries. If the article is not available locally, get it from another B.C. library by clicking on the Check other library catalogues button to request the item online via Interlibrary Loan. Remember to order items early!

Step 4: Check World History Websites

From the Library page click on Web Subject Sites - History to find a list of recommended Canadian history websites.

Have fun! If you have comments or suggestions, email me at chulka@cnc.bc.ca