HIS104: Ten Days That Shook the World
Welcome to the library research guide for HIS104: Ten Days That Shook the World.
Welcome to the library research guide for HIS104: Ten Days That Shook the World.This course explores transformative moments in history in order to understand their underlying causes and their social, cultural, political, and economic impacts on human beings and their societies. Each topic introduces students to the diverse ways historians practice their craft and seek understanding of the past and historical change so that they develop a deeper appreciation of what history "is" and "does" by considering multiple means of exploring and making sense of the past.
Explore this page for useful resources and tools that will help you navigate this course.
This technical drawing and plan of The Bastille in Paris, France, was created and printed by unknown hands in Italy, likely in 1789. Original in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, from the collection of Carl de Vinck. Reproduced from the Stanford University digital collection French Revolution Images: Iconography from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Key Indexing Resources for Historical Aspects
Indexing and abstracting tools designed for historians will cover a selection of journals, books, and other types of resources that are targeted for historians. There will normally be additional search functions such as "Time Period" of the event that you want to research. General search engines such as Omni do not have this type of filter. When abstracts are provided, these short summaries of the articles can help you quickly determine if the article is of potential use to you.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThis database contains abstracts of articles from journals relating to the history of the world (excluding Canada and the US) from 1450 to the present. Also included are abstracts of important books in this field.
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America : History & Life This link opens in a new windowAmerica History and Life contains citations, with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
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Politics Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection provides access to renowned databases such as PAIS and WPSA, covering the international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more, including full-text from many leading political science and international relations journals.
Digital Collections (Access for TMU Community Members Only)
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Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowBlack Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable, component databases, which include:
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Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowBlack Thought and Culture contains the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, letters, speeches and other material.
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British And Irish Women's Letters And Diaries This link opens in a new windowBritish and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of women, as revealed through pages of published letters and diaries from 1500 to 1900, including several thousand pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.
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Empire Online This link opens in a new windowThis resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowNorth American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
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Oral History Online This link opens in a new windowOral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,500 collections of Oral History in English from around the world.
The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 271,000 pages of full-text by some 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,000 audio and video files and over 17,000 bibliographic records. -
Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new windowThis resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Documents are presented alongside contextual essays contributed by leading academics in the field; each essay will have hypertext links to the primary sources it discusses.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowWomen and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. This collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Archival Newspapers
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British Library Newspapers, Part I & II: 1800-1900 This link opens in a new window
Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, this resource delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the nineteenth. These newspapers, emerging during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper, Chicago Defender provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new window
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is available, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to aid searching.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times of India, The This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Washington Post, The This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1877-2008
There are numerous digitization initiatives for local newspapers around the world. See for example:
United States: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
New Zealand: Papers Past
Australia: Trove: Digitised Newspapers and More
See also Carol Singer's archived guide at Bowling State Green University to Historical Worldwide Newspapers Online
TMU Libraries--Books, E-books, Video / Audio Formats
Omni replaces the traditional catalogue that used to search for books, e-books, dvds, and other resources except for journal articles. Now, Omni can be used to look for known books, or when using the default (a keyword) search to find some relevant titles for an assignment. Whether using a Simple or Advanced search, you can use the filters on the left to limit to Resource Type: Book chapters, or, Books & eBooks. You can use the Browse Search with the drop down option for Library of Congress Subject Heading. This type of search is ideal for finding Books and Ebooks in our collection. It will display a selective index of subject headings most relevant to your search When you find book records, you can use the Subject terms in the record to link to similar items. If you want to find books, e-books and articles at the same time, consider using Omni, Advanced Search and Subject Contains ...
Some useful subject searches using Omni Browse Searching & Library of Congress Subject Heading:
Boycotts
Civil disobedience
Civil rights movements
Democratization
Gay liberation movement United States History
Government, Resistance to
Passive resistance India
Protest movements
Revolutions
Slave insurrections Haiti
Social justice United States
Women Suffrage Great Britain History
[Name of a country or geographic region] -- History -- [may have subdivisions for time period, type of content etc.]
China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
France History Revolution, 1789-1799
France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence
Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804
South Africa History 1909-1961
[Name of country or geographic region] -- Politics and government
China Politics and government 1976-2002
Germany (East) Politics and government
South Africa Politics and government 1948-1961
The Name of a person, or, Name of an organization, or, Name of a building searched as a subject
Bastille
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
United Farm Workers
Name of a topic or event as a subject -- [subdivision for state/country--city]
Civil rights movements Alabama Montgomery
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969
Keyword / default Omni search for name of a person (may add another keyword)
gandhi salt
rosa parks boycott
Keyword / default Omni search for topic
delano grape
defiance south africa
montgomery bus boycott
pro-democracy
storming bastille
tiananmen
tiananmen [Omni Advanced search, Subject contains ...]
saint-domingue [this was the early name of Haiti]
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Rethinking the Age of Revolutions
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Call Number: Online; Access restricted to TMU community membersISBN: 9780190674809Publication Date: 2018 -
NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936-1965
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Call Number: Online; Access restricted to TMU community membersISBN: 9781572339828Publication Date: 2013 -
The Story of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination 70 Years Later
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Call Number: Online; Access restricted to TMU community membersISBN: 9781620234150Publication Date: 2018 -
Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille
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The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914 byCall Number: Online; Access restricted to TMU community membersISBN: 9780191697890Publication Date: 2002
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The Making of Haiti
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Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History byCall Number: Online; Access restricted to TMU community membersPublication Date: 1999
Quick Facts
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
remain useful sources of quick information. In addition to free sources such as Wikipedia, consider some of our licensed electronic content from publishers such as Oxford University Press, as well as printed items.
Try using Omni, Advanced Search and Subject contains: [type a topical word or words] and either dictionaries, or, encyclopedias
Example Subject contains searches:
- africa history chronology
- decolonization dictionaries
- feminism dictionaries
- great britain colonies dictionaries
- great britain colonies encyclopedias
- history dictionaries
- politics and government dictionaries
- postcolonialism encyclopedias
- women suffrage encyclopedias
Biographical information
Consider these resources:
- American National Biography (1999, 24 vols.), and, Supplement (2002-) (for people who are deceased)
- Dictionary of African Biography (2012, 6 vols.) Available in print at the Toronto Public Library
- Encyclopedia of World Biography (2004) 4 supplementary vols. also available
- International Who's Who (for living persons)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004, 61 vols.) Supplements for recently deceased (2001-2004) & (2005-2008)
- Who's Who (Great Britain, for living persons)
- Who's Who in America (for living persons)
- Current Biography (1941-2015) Toronto Public Library has more recent years.
- Abridged Biography and Genealogy Master Index (1988)
Historical Maps and Atlases
Try Omni Browse Search, and Library of Congress Subject Heading:
The David Rumsey Map Collection makes accessible historic maps of North and South America
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Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowOxford Reference, previously known as Oxford Reference Online Premium, comprises more than 120 dictionaries and reference titles covering a comprehensive subject spectrum including: General Reference, Language, Science and Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Professional content.
Country Studies (brief histories, statistical overviews)
Europa World Year Book (print, latest held 2016)
EIU Economist Intelligence Unit (online)
OECD Library (online)
Statesman's Yearbook (print, latest held 2024)
World Almanac and Book of Facts (print, latest held 2018)
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (2001; more recent eds. at Toronto Public Library)
Some Free Online Resources
The CIA World Factbook - brief information on the history, government, economy, military of 267 countries
New York Public Library-Digital Collections - includes images, postcards, printed ephemera, books
Over 19,000 items (especially books and maps) about 193 countries spanning 8000 BCE to 2000 CE. Includes content from the Daily Sketch, a British tabloid newspaper established in Manchester in 1909 and later moved to London.
Other Libraries
The Toronto Public Library (TPL) has ongoing subscriptions to many biographical resources as well other dictionaries and encyclopedias that are not available at TMU. Many of the resources are located at the Toronto Reference Library situated just north of Bloor Street on Yonge Street.