• Comprehensive Coverage: With Modern World History, researchers can delve deep into their topics or examine different perspectives through event and topic entries, primary sources, images, videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies, original maps and charts, and more.
• Easy Access to Content: Featured content in Modern World History is handpicked by our editors to inform research and provide guided entryways into the database, plus convenient links to key areas are at the top of every page.
• Editorially Curated Topic Centers: Modern World History features specially selected content on different eras and themes of history—including articles, shareable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—that provides a starting point for research. Topic Centers include:
  • Africa
  • Asia and Oceania
  • Europe
  • Middle East
  • The Americas
  • The First Global Age: 1450–1770
  • An Age of Revolutions: 1750–1914
  • A Half Century of Crisis: 1900–1945
  • Promises and Paradoxes: 1945–Present
  • European Renaissance
  • French Revolution and Napoleon
  • Indian Independence Movement
  • Rise of Nazi Germany.
• Suggested Research Topics: Each Topic Center in Modern World History includes handpicked selections showcasing the best resources for each topic—including in-depth overview essays—and providing guidance for research.
• Primary Sources: Modern World History includes hundreds of primary sources, many with introductions that provide context and background—perfect for strengthening critical-thinking skills.
• Videos, Images, Maps, and Slideshows: Modern World History’s videos, images, original maps, and original, interactive whiteboard-friendly slideshows offer a fascinating visual introduction to key topics and themes, stimulating interest and providing convenient overviews and “lecture launcher” material.
• Biographies: Under “Featured People,” Modern World History includes helpful lists of Enlightenment thinkers, women in world history, Renaissance painters, and dictators and tyrants. Each list includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results.
• Themes in Modern History: Modern World History’s Themes in Modern History section explores 26 major themes in modern world history century by century. Organized around such critical subjects as economy and trade, government organization, migration and immigration, religion, science and technology, social organization, and war, the essays trace the progress of modern history across the world, fostering critical conceptual thinking and allowing students to focus on a particular theme in one era and then examine that theme across the span of modern world history. Discussion questions for each theme encourage students to think critically.
• Pro/Con Articles: Editorially selected articles on many high-interest controversies in history can be found in African-American History, enabling researchers to grasp the essence and importance of every conflict and the reasons Americans debated them.
• Overview Essays: Modern World History includes substantial and thorough overview essays giving extensive background on relevant historical topics and eras.
• Book Chapters: Chapters from authoritative print titles written by noted historians complement the thousands of encyclopedia entries, biographies, definitions, and other resources Modern World History provides. Book chapters allow for original thinking and are ideal for an in-depth study of a topic.
• Authoritative Source List: Modern World History features a complete inventory, by type, of the extraordinary amount of expertly researched and written content in the database, including articles from a wealth of award-winning proprietary and distinguished print titles, primary sources, images, videos, timelines, and a list of contributors to the database—information researchers can trust.
• Curriculum Tools: This section of Modern World History features writing and research tips for students and educators, including:
  • Advice on analyzing and understanding editorial cartoons, primary sources, and online sources
  • Guides for presenting research, including avoiding plagiarism, citing sources, completing a primary source worksheet, summarizing articles, and writing research papers
  • Educator tools, including advice on preventing plagiarism and using editorial cartoons in class.
• Full Cross-Searchability: Modern World History is fully cross-searchable with any combination of the other Infobase History Research Center databases to which your institution subscribes.

• Search by Common Core, national, state, provincial, International Baccalaureate Organization, C3 Framework for Social Studies, and College Board AP standards to find correlating articles
• Supports 1:1 initiatives, blended instruction, flipped classrooms, project-based learning, and document-based question environments
• Convenient A-to-Z topic lists can be filtered by Topic Center
• Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
• Searchable timelines, including a detailed general timeline, updated monthly, plus regional and era-specific timelines
• “National History Day” feature, with suggested searches in accordance with the theme of the NHD competition
• Maps and graphs with descriptions
• Real-time, searchable Reuters® newsfeed
• Share content to Google Classroom
• Save content directly to Google Drive
• Single sign-on with Google or Microsoft
• Google Sign-In allows users to easily access content with their Google credentials
• A variety of integration options and partners, including Schoology, Canvas, itslearning, and D2L (Desire2Learn)
• Dynamic citations in MLA, Chicago, and Harvard formats, with EasyBib and NoodleTools export functionality
• Read Aloud tool
• Ability for users to set preferences for default language, citation format, number of search results, and standards set for correlations
• Persistent record links
• Search Assist technology
• Searchable Support Center with valuable help materials, how-to tips, tutorials, and live help chat
• Google Translate for 100+ languages.

• Editorially Curated Topic Centers: Modern World History features specially selected content on different eras and themes of history—including articles, shareable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—that provides a starting point for research. Topic Centers include:
  • Africa
  • Asia and Oceania
  • Europe
  • Middle East
  • The Americas
  • The First Global Age: 1450–1770
  • An Age of Revolutions: 1750–1914
  • A Half Century of Crisis: 1900–1945
  • Promises and Paradoxes: 1945–Present.

Library Journal Best Database

“…highly recommended…easy to use…extremely student-friendly.”
Booklist

“…a great starting point for students seeking basic background information on most world history topics…well designed and easy to navigate. The maps, images, videos, time lines and primary sources are a welcome adjunct to the other strong content from a well-known, reputable publisher…Recommended.”
Choice

“…simple to use and contains a substantial amount of information, laid out in an aesthetically pleasing manner…Recommended…”
Reference Reviews

“…[goes] into great depth…and feature[s] primary sources that are useful and often required for assignments.”
Library Journal