Global

Reference Sources

Background Notes (from the U.S. State Department)
BBC Country Profiles (includes info re: country’s media outlets)
CIA World Factbook

MW Library Catalog – reference books (e.g. History in Dispute)
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) – database focused on contrasting policy perspectives
PowerSearch (Gale) – incl. reference books and Congressional Research Service reports
Salem History – includes books on world religions and American immigration
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
World History in Context (Gale) – history focus (unlike general PowerSearch database)
Virtual Reference Library (Gale) – digital reference books on a variety of topics

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Research Sources

African History Sourcebook
Ancient History Sourcebook
AP Source – magazines & journals (both trade/professional and scholarly)

Digital Resources by Global Region– for European lists, select from menu on European Countries tab

EBSCO ebooks – books covering range of topics and perspectives

Google Scholar – reports, older journal articles, and a wide array of sources

Historical Newspapers (incl. New York Times from 1851-2007, London’s Guardian and Observer from 1791-2003, and four historic black newspapers)
Indian History Sourcebook
Islamic History Sourcebook
Jewish History Sourcebook
JSTOR – archive of scholarly articles (does not include most recent 5 years)

Medieval History Sourcebook

Microsoft Academic Research – similar to Google Scholar

MW Library Catalog – esp. biographies and nonfiction books in the 300’s and 900’s

Modern History Sourcebook

NationMaster – statistics

PowerSearch (Gale) – news, journals, and magazines incl. The Economist

Science Direct (Elsevier) – scholarly journals – incl. social sciences and psychology

UN Treaty Collection

World History in Context – history focus (unlike general PowerSearch database)

World Digital Library – primary docs from world libraries browseable by region/time

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U.S. Foreign Policy

American Presidency Project – U.S. presidential libraries have online exhibits and archives that include primary source material.

CIA Electronic Reading Room

Diplomatic Relations by Country

Foreign Relations of the U.S. (UW) – primary documents

Frontline Diplomacy – LoC archive shedding light on life of diplomats

National Security Archive (GWU) – includes primary  source documents

Office of the US Historian – digital records of US Foreign Policy by administration

Primary Docs in Am. History (LoC) – organized by topic and era

Public Papers of the President(UM) – through Clinton or G.H.W. Bush through Obama

State Dept Archive pre-2001

State Dept Archive new interface (1945-1976+) HTML or eBooks

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Current Events

NEWS search engines– Search the past 30 days of news from multiple sources
Google News
Google News – Advanced Search
Bing News
Digg (stories from the web re-posted by Digg users)
Yahoo! News

 

World News Sources

Many of the news agencies listed here have regional pages too.

Al-Jazeera America
BBC World News
CNN World News
Inter Press Service (NGO focusing on global South)
LinkTV (501c3 based in California)
Newseum: Interactive Map of Today’s Front Pages
New York Times World News
UN News Centre – select region with map on right
World Affairs Journal – select region from top menu
Worldpress Directory of World Newspapers (go to the source news sites – articles reprinted on the Worldpress site may be excerpts or edited versions)

 

News in Another Language
Google News has versions for several countries – a few in English, but most in that country’s primary language (see the drop-down menu near the upper right under U.S. Edition). Consider using a free Google account to customize your Google News with news in a languages you’re studying.

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Global Region – Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Reference (incl. books in VRL)

Arab Uprising Country by Country  (BBC) – select country at top

Creation of the State of Israel

Dict. of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

M.E. Conflict Ref. Library (2012)

Middle East: Documentary History – pub. in 2008, this text provides documents in context from the past, but not recent changes

Oil Prices (US Energy Admin)

Encyclopedia of Warrior Peoples and Fighting Groups

Globalization and Free Trade

Globalization: A Reference Hndbk

Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century

 

Interactives/data

Arab Spring: Interactive Timeline (Guardian) – requires Flash

Global Connections: Middle East (PBS) – incl. interactive timeline and thematic articles

Mapping Syrian Conflict (BBC)

Syrian Regional Refugee Response – inter-agency portal for data, news, and docs hosted by UNHCR

 

Primary sources

20 Years after the Hostages: Declassified Docs on US and Iran

Abdul Hamid II Collection (LOC) – portrays Ottoman Empire during reign of one of last sultans

Africa & M.E. Reading Room (LOC) – incl. webcasts

Arab & M.E. Electronic Lib (Yale)

Discover Islamic Art (Museum with No Frontiers)

Maps – from UTexas & D. Rumsey

Photograph/print archives: AGSL, ArchNet, MidEastImage.com, NYPL, and Saudi Aramco

Political Posters (Am Univ of Beirut) – 1960’s to 1980’s

Tahrir Documents – ongoing effort to archive and translate activist papers from the 2011 Egyptian uprising and its aftermath. Materials collected from demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and published in English alongside scans of the originals 

World Digital Library: Middle East and N. Africa

 

Opinion

M.E. and N. Africa Think Tanks by Country – list compiled by GWU