MR. MARTELLI'S PROJECTS
Flex 8 - Medieval Philosophy
- Medieval Philosophy - from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - gives the social and historical context to Medieval philosophy and covers the major thinkers of the time
- Biography in Context - an excellent database with biographical information and links to further research on individuals
- EBSCO - an academic database with links to scholarly journals and magazine articles
HISTORY 12
GENOCIDE STUDY
General Resources:
Databases:
- EBSCOHost (on Van Tech Library's Digital Resources page).
- Global Issues in Context ( on Van Tech Library's Digital Resources page) This database contains substantial overviews of genocides, reference works, large numbers of newspaper and magazine articles, and personal narratives for many events.
- History Reference Center (Vancouver Public Library) VPL library card required. (Other VPL databases include: Academic Search Elite, Encyclopedia Britannics Online, History eBooks, MasterFILE Premier)
Web Sites:
- Best of History Web Sites
- Genocide Intervention Network This site is supported by major humanitarian organizations and contains extensive information and reports on current crises in areas such as Sudan.
- Genocide Studies Program Projects (Yale University)
- Human Rights Watch
- Internet Archive (A simple "Rwanda" key word search, for example, retrieves interviews with survivors of that genocide.)
- Modern History Sourcebook
Reference Books in the Van Tech Library:
- Conflicts Since World War II (REF 908.82 ENC)
- Encyclopedia of Wars (REF 305.003 PHI)
- The Encyclopedia of World War II (REF 940.5303 ENC)
- History of World War II (REF 940.53 HIS)
- Purnell's History of the 20th Century (REF 909.82 PUR)
- War in Peace (REF 355 WAR)
Holocaust:
Web Sites:
Print Resources in the Van Tech Library
Books on the Holocaust can be easily found through the catalogue. Useful subject headings are:
HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)
HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)--PERSONAL NARRATIVES
- Yad Vashem Archives
- Jewish Virtual Library
- Modern History Sourcebook
- Remember.org: a Cybrary of the Holocaust
- U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum
Print Resources in the Van Tech Library
Books on the Holocaust can be easily found through the catalogue. Useful subject headings are:
HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)
HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)--PERSONAL NARRATIVES
Post-War Genocide
Use the General Resources (above) to find extensive information on these topics. For additional sources, see
below:
Print Resources in the Van Tech Library
For background information post-war genocides, do a SUBJECT search in the Van Tech Catalogue under:
RWANDA (will produce books on the genocide as well as titles by and about survivors)
CAMBODIA
YUGOSLAVIA and BOSNIA
SUDAN and DARFUR
GENOCIDE--books that discuss many post-war genocidal events
You will also obtain good results with key word searches such as:
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Web Sites
below:
Print Resources in the Van Tech Library
For background information post-war genocides, do a SUBJECT search in the Van Tech Catalogue under:
RWANDA (will produce books on the genocide as well as titles by and about survivors)
CAMBODIA
YUGOSLAVIA and BOSNIA
SUDAN and DARFUR
GENOCIDE--books that discuss many post-war genocidal events
You will also obtain good results with key word searches such as:
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Web Sites
- Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia in Modern History
- Cambodia: Pol Pot's Shadow
- Cambodia Tribunal Monitor
- Chinese Holocaust Memorial
- The Cambodian Genocide Program (Yale University)
- Documentation Center of Cambodia
- Ghosts of Rwanda
- Leave None to Tell the Story: the Genocide in Rwanda (Lengthy report by Human Rights Watch)
- Remembering Mao's Victims (from Der Spiegel)
- Rwanda Genocide: Ten Years On (BBC) (Includes information about survivors)
- Rwandan Genocide Victim Recalls Horror (CBS-60 Minutes video)
- United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (Includes victims' testimonies)