Modern European History

Description of the IU Department of History's Modern European History specialization.

Research Guides

• Center for Research Libraries Topic Guides--Includes WWII, Socialism and Communisim, and French and German History.
  
• European History Bibliography--from Yale University Library
  
• French History 1500-present--from Yale University Library
  
• German History Bibliography--from Yale University Library
• Italian History Research Guide--from Yale University Library
  
• Spanish History Bibliography--from Yale University Library
  
• European Union Documents--from Princeton University Library
  
• European Union Internet Resources--from the University of California Berkeley Library

Related Disciplines

• West European Studies
  
• Political Science
  
• Government Information
  
• Global Studies
  
• Economics

World War II

• World War II Bibliography--from Yale University Library
  
• Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945--Features full-text documents received in the British Foreign Office from all European states under Nazi occupation during World War II.
  
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
  
• Post War Europe: Refugees, Exile, and Resettlement, 1945-1950--An archive of primary source documents, covering the repatriation and emigration of the Displaced Persons and survivors of the Holocaust and World War II.
  
• Historisches Centrum Hagen--Virtual Library Contemporary History Catalogue
  

Economics and Politics

• Access UN--Index to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.
  
• Columbia International Affairs Online--A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, offering fulltext of working papers from research organizations, abstracts of foreign policy journal articles, etc.
  
• Constitutions of the Countries of the World
  
• Econlit--Covers journal articles, books, and dissertations, articles in collective works, conference proceedings and essay volumes. Subjects include book reviews, business, economics, finance, industry and statistics.
  
• Europa World Plus--Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Includes contact information for officials and features information on over 1,700 international organizations.
  
• International Financial Statistics--IFS is a monthly publication providing international and domestic finance for most countries of the world.
  
• International Political Science Abstracts--Indexes the world's leading journals in political science, including nearly 900 journals.
  
• PAIS International--Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government.
  
• Peace Research Abstracts--Contains concise summaries of articles from international publications on peace and conflict studies.
  
• Keesing's Online--Keesing's Online is an authoritative monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs.
  
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts--Merged backfile of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI. Abstracts and indexes journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy.

Newspapers and Periodicals

For British periodicals see the British History resources page.

For listings of newspapers by country, see the West European News and Media page.

• CRL Newspaper Catalog--the Center for Research Libraries has over 10,000 non-US newspapers; those which have not been digitized can be requested through ILL.
  
• Access World News
  
• Compact Memory: Internetarchiv juedischer Periodika--German-Jewish periodicals published between 1806 and 1938.
  
• Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
  
• Hemeroteca digital--Spanish periodicals online, 17th-20th centuries from the Spanish National Library.
  
• Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei (Soviet Periodical Index)
  
• Yiddish Prints
  
• AltPress Index
  
• Alt Press Index Archive
  
• World News Connection