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Welcome! This guide provides tips and links to help you with your world history studies.

• Use Reference Sources to find background information on your topic, and to locate brief, authoritative information (such as dates or statistics).
  

  • An encyclopedia article will give you a broad overview of your topic. Look here to identify key concepts, terms, events and names of people who have done important work on your topic, plus bibliographies to guide your further reading.
    

  • Broad, comprehensive Histories, from respected university publishers, are often good places to begin your reading.
    

  • Chronologies place persons and events in their historical context.
    

  • Historical atlases help researchers see the geographical connections between peoples and events. A Gazetteer is a dictionary of place names and geographic features (such as rivers, lakes and mountains) that gives the location of each entry.
    

  • Links are provided to a variety of Biography sources.
    

  • And there are citations and links to sources of Historical statistics.
    

  • Plus information On History & Historiography.
    

• The Books and Articles tabs provide information on finding secondary sources on your topic.
  

• And there are links to help you find Primary Sources, Images and Web Resources.
  

• You can explore world history sources by Period: ...
  

• Prehistory & Ancient History 
  

• Medieval History
  

• Early Modern History
  

• 19th & 20th Century History
  

Each of these pages include citations and links to archive and manuscript sources, encyclopedias, histories, historical atlases and gazetters pertinent to the period.

• You can explore world history sources by Region: ...
  

• Africa 
  

• Asia 
  

• Australia & Oceania 
  

• British Isles 
  

• Europe 
  

• Latin America 
  

• Middle East 
  

• United States 
  

Each of these pages include citations and links to archive and manuscript sources, encyclopedias, histories, historical atlases and gazetters pertinent to the region. 

• You can explore world history sources by Topic: ...
  

• Cold War Studies 
  

• Comparative Gender History 
  

• Comparative Race & Ethnicity 
  

• History of Science 
  

Each of these pages include citations and links to archive and manuscript sources, encyclopedias, histories, historical atlases and gazetters pertinent to the topic.