Provided here are prepared searches for each topic. Many topics can be easily searched using the links below. Others, particularly those which do not refer to a particular historical event, are more nuanced and may require a few different searches. All searches can be modified by adding more keywords--try it and see what you get!
Don't forget to also click over to Catalog to see what resources are available at Gumberg.
North Korea under Kim Il-Sung, 1912-1994
Kwame Nkrumah and Ghanaian Independence, 1957
Greenpeace and Environmentalism, 1970 (+ more specific search)
South African Black Consciousness Movement, 1970s
Argentina's Dirty War, 1976-1983
Thatcherism in Great Britain, 1980s
Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Intifada, 1980s (+ a more specific book search)
Mikhail Gorbachev and Perestroika, 1980s
Assassination of Indira Gandhi, 1984
Tiananmen Square Protests, 1989
For more help, you can email or schedule an appointment with your librarian, Gesina Phillips.
You can also email, chat, text, call or meet with a Reference Librarian.
The pre-made topic searches on this guide should help you to find resources related to your topic. Here are some tips to help you make the searches work for you.
Advanced search
Clicking the Advanced Search button will bring you to a new screen that allows you to easily search terms using the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. If you click this button for one of the pre-made searches, it will break up the search to show you how it works.
Refining the search 
You can use the sidebar on the left-hand side of the page to narrow your results. Some options include narrowing your results to
articles only, articles for which the full text is available, or peer reviewed journal articles. You can also narrow your search to other formats: for example, academic journals or books. Don't forget to click the "more" button to see other options!
CatalogPlus or Catalog?
Your search will default to CatalogPlus, which searches the library's online materials (journal articles, eBooks, etc.). If you want to view only books that you can borrow from Gumberg, switch your view to Catalog using the tabs under the search box.
Often, the best way to investigate the historical context for an event is to consult a reference work such as an encyclopedia. There are many encyclopedias available through Gumberg Library in print or as eBooks.
Pro tip for using encyclopedias: look for specific events, people, and/or concepts rather than general ideas.
Try searching the Gale Virtual Reference Library, our online collection of reference works.
You are strongly encouraged to find .edu sites in this course. You can limit your Google search to .edu sources by using Google's Advanced Search function.
Here are some encyclopedias available as eBooks through Gumberg Library:
The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History by 
The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 by 
This work by Gesina A. Phillips is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
