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- Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts. - American History Online This link opens in a new window
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Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. - Modern World History This link opens in a new window
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Covers the broad expanse of world history from the mid-15th century to the present, featuring thousands of documents, articles, timelines, images, videos, and maps.
Major Group Project Resources
Political Movements for Democratic Reforms & Political Prisoners Throughout the World
Books/Films In Our Library Collections
- Steel gate to freedom : the life of Liu Xiaobo
- Eternal Putin? : confronting Navalny, the pandemic, sanctions, and war with Ukraine
- Protest, social movements, and global democracy since 2011 : new perspectives
- The making of modern South Africa : conquest, apartheid, democracy
- Waves of democracy social movements and political change
- Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946
- Teacher and comrade: Richard Dudley and the fight for democracy in South Africa
- Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865
- Protest Politics and the Democratization of South Korea: Strategies and Roles of Women
- State Formation and Radical Democracy in India
- SDS and the Port Huron Statement
- Czech political prisoners recovering face
- Surviving Mexico's Dirty War A Political Prisoner's Memoir
- Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin
- Sentences : the memoirs and letters of Italian political prisoners from Benvenuto Cellini to Aldo Moro
- Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War
- The reappeared : Argentine former political prisoners
- Kissing the sword : a prison memoir
- Robben Island and prisoner resistance to apartheid
- Chile, Pinochet, and the caravan of death
- The silent escape : three thousand days in Romanian prisons
- Threat Palestinian political prisoners in Israel
- Against all hope a memoir of life in Castro's gulag
- The Dirty War (Argentina)
Online Resources
- International Republican Institute (learn more about movements around the world)
- National Endowment for Democracy
- The Arab Spring - how it engulfed the ME
- Overcoming Apartheid
- How Russia and China Undermine Democracy in Africa (National Endowment for Democracy Report)
- World Movement for Democracy
- Chinese Political Prisoner Photograph Collection (1924-1946)
- Letters from Russian Political Prisoners (Soviet era)
- USSR Labor Camps- Congressional Hearings
- European Memories of the Gulag
- Tiananmen Square - China (1989)
- Protect Democracy
- Freedom House
- Mexico's Dirty War
Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia and Myanmar
Books/Films in Library Collections
- The Pol Pot regime race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
- Brother Number One : a political biography of Pol Pot
- Genocide in Cambodia documents from the trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary
- Voices from S-21 terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison
- Svay : a Khmer village in Cambodia
- Cambodia's curse the modern history of a troubled land
- Children of Cambodia's killing fields memoirs by survivors
- Survive: In The Heart of the Khmer Rouge Madness
- Genocide : a history
- Burma/Myanmar : what everyone needs to know
- Frontline. Myanmar's killing fields
- The Military in Burma/Myanmar On the Longevity of Tatmadaw Rule and Influence
- The Rohingyas : inside Myanmar's hidden genocide
Online Resources
Articles in Library Databases (many others are available)
Indigenous People - Their History and Present
Books/Films In Our Library Collections
- Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
- The falling sky: words of a Yanomami shaman
- In the way of development : Indigenous peoples, life projects, and globalization
- Native Brazil : beyond the convert and the cannibal, 1500-1900
- Native and national in Brazil: indigeneity after independence
- Solomon islanders in WWII: an Indigenous perspective
- New worlds of indigenous resistance
- Equal subjects, unequal rights : Indigenous peoples in British settler colonies, 1830-1910
- Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance
- Indigenous People
- Peoples of the earth: ethnonationalism, democracy, and the Indigenous challenge in "Latin" America
- Remembrance of Pacific Pasts
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures
- Indigenous homelessness: perspectives from Canada, Australia and New Zealand
- Returns: becoming Indigenous in the 21st century
- Indigenous nations and modern states: the political emergence of nations challenging state power
- Indigenous experience today
Online Resources
- American Indian Digital History Project
- World Bank: Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN)
CIA Black Sites
Books/Films in Our Library Collections
- How the gloves came off : lawyers, policy makers, and norms in the debate on torture
- Secrets, Politics, and Torture
- The Guantánamo lawyers inside a prison outside the law
- Habeas Corpus after 9/11 : Confronting America’s New Global Detention System
- CIA’s extraordinary rendition and secret detention programme: European reactions and the challenges of future international intelligence co-operation
- The Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture : committee study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program
- Torture and impunity
- Rendition
- Hard Measures
Online Resources
- The Rendition Project and CIA Torture Unredacted (report)
- Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition
- The CIA Black Sites Program and the Gina Haspel Nomination
- Secrets, Politics, And Torture (PBS Frontline Documentary) and
- Extraordinary Rendition site includes video, book excerpts, reporters interview and resources, and updates.
- Scenes from a Black Site
- ACLU: Extraordinary Rendition In Depth
- No more excuses (a Human Rights Watch report)
- Legacy of the 'Dark Side'
- Mapping the CIA's Secret Prisons
- Inside the CIA's Black Site Torture Room