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The Hulbert Taft, Jr. Library
Websites
- Britannica Academic includes links to recommended websites.
- SweetSearch: a Search Engine for Students searches only credible websites approved by research experts.
- Current History: a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs Each issue focuses on a country, region, continent, or international issue.
- Print: The Library subscribes and keeps the current print issue plus three years of back issues in the Reading Room.
- Current History website: for articles since 2000, search your country in the "Title" search field in the left sidebar.
- 1914-1923 archive at The Online Books Page from University of Pennsylvania Library.
- 1916-2017 can be found in the database JSTOR.
- Note on citation:
- If you use the print journal, choose Print or In-hand and then Journal.
- If you use the internet journal, you will choose Website and then Journal. Your citation will include the full URL of your article.
- If you use JSTOR, choose Database and then Journal. Your citation will include the permanent link for your article.
- Amnesty International Human Rights Practices Reports (AI is a leading worldwide human rights organization)
- BBC News Country Profiles (Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.)
- CIA World Factbook (country profiles from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.)
- Council on Foreign Relations: Regions (CFR is a U.S. nonprofit think-tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.)
- Freedom in the World 2019 (annual report of Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world.)
- International Crisis Group (ICG has more than twenty years of experience in working to prevent, manage and resolve deadly conflict around the world.)
- United Nations Data Country Profiles
- U. S. Department of State Human Rights Reports
For Historical Documents and Primary Sources from European Countries:
- EuroDocs is arranged by country, and then chronologically within your country. Do a Find [Command "F" on a Macbook] to find documents translated into English. From Brigham Young University.