A Dictionary of Political Biography [Oxford Reference Online], Oxford University Press, 2003.
Covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world.

The Holocaust Chronicle, Publications International, Ltd., 2002. 
This web site contains every word and most images that appear in the print edition of The Holocaust Chronicle, published by Publications International, Ltd. in April 2002. Information was gathered and fact-checked by top Holocaust scholars. Search by index, keyword, chapter, page or date. Includes appendices, further readings, and links.

THOMCAT

Use the online catalog to locate books in Thomason Library. You can search by author, title,  keyword, or subject.

• Search for a person, as AUTHOR or SUBJECT, with last name, first name:              

• SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress (LC) subject headings. The terms below are examples of subject headings in THOMCAT related to this class:
             

Subject searching is an effective and precise method of searching the catalog, however, KEYWORD searching has benefits, also.

• Try a KEYWORD search using two or three of the most significant words from the title or subject if you are unsure of the exact title or the correct subject heading to use. Place phrases in "quotation marks."
  
  
• Connect words with AND, OR, NOT to focus your search.

• Try truncation at the end of a word stem to retrieve singular, plural, and other variations of the word.  Use an asterisk (*) to truncate from 1 to 5 characters. Use a double asterisk (**) to include word endings with an unlimited number of characters.

PASCAL Catalog -If you need books in addition to those found at Thomason Library, search this combined catalog of college & university libraries in South Carolina. Through PASCAL Delivers, you can order books online for delivery within 3-4 working days.

PASCAL Catalog searching is similar to searching in THOMCAT. An added BONUS in THOMCAT is a pass-through from search results in THOMCAT to the same search results in PASCAL with one click on the PASCAL icon. The pass through is available on any search at any level A PC book you need is checked out? Click the PASCAL icon for other copies available in SC. Need more items on a subject? PASCAL items on that subject are just a click away.

This service for current PC students, faculty, and staff is a project of PASCAL- Partnership Among SC Academic Libraries. Borrowers will be notified by e-mail when requested items arrive at Thomason Library. Click here for searching and ordering tips. It's easy!

WorldCat – A catalog of books and materials at libraries worldwide. Try searching here to find ALL books available on a topic. Materials available at Thomason Library are highlighted and others can be borrowed through ILL or searched in PASCALCAT.

Interlibrary Loan - ILL is available to PC students, faculty and staff in order to share resources between libraries. Click link for instructions.

Online Image Collections:

German History in Documents and Images (GHDI)
In addition to this web site's numerous documents on German History (see description below ), GHDI provides a rich collection of images from German history, with
Italian Life Under Fascism. Selections from the Fry Collection, Dept. of Special Collections, Memorial Univeristy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Galleries of Holocaust Images  [Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida]
Photographic images of archival significance as well as recent images of camps and memorials.

The Holocaust History Project A free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial. Also includes links and reproductions of various important books.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Online Exhibitions
Numerous online exhibitions extending the reach of Museum public programs and covering topics from children, to aftermath, to propaganda, and persecution.  Specific topics include Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oskar Schindler, trials, 1936 Berlin Olympics, Music of the Holocaust, and more.

Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
A comprehensive worldwide archival resource for moving image materials pertaining to the Holocaust and related aspects of World War II recorded primarily between 1920 and 1948. This collection can be searched, browsed, and viewed online.

The following library subscriptoin databases are available to PC students, faculty, and staff from on- and off-campus locations.  Off-campus users will be prompted for a log-in; use your PC email username and password.

Academic Search Premier
EBSCOhost's journal and magazine articles from all academic disciplines.

Project MUSE
Current and recent volumes of core journals in the humanities and social sciences. See Muse titles indexed in History and Judaic Studies. Titles with green arrow are part of PC’s full-text subscription. Articles from non-subscribed titles can be acquired through Interlibrary Loan.

New York Times Archive [ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
Full-text & full-image of NYT articles with coverage from 1851 up to three years ago.

News - LexisNexis
Full-text U.S. & international newspapers & news magazines.

Gale World History in Context   "A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference books, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history... supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals. Results provide era, topic, and event overviews, and viewpoint essays."

Journal Finder provides access to PC's electronic and print journals, magazines, and newspapers in one convenient location.

German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) GHDI is an initiative of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. " A comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery. The materials are presented in ten sections, which have been compiled by leading scholars. All of the materials can be downloaded free of charge for teaching, research, and related purposes; the site is strictly intended for individual, non-commercial use." (from web site).

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

History of the Spanish Civil War   From Anarchy Archives: An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism.   Links to a variety of resources on this topic. Contains several dead links, however.

Nazi Propaganda 1933-1945 [German Propaganda Archive, Calvin College]
A collection of English translations of National Socialist propaganda for the period 1933-1945, part of a larger site on German propaganda. The goal is to help people understand the great totalitarian systems of the twentieth century by giving them access to primary material. The complete archive is substantial. If you are looking for something specific, try the search function available at the bottom of this page.

Nuremberg Trials Project: a digital document collection  [Harvard Law School Library]
Documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). Includes trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, that have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity. At this time three case collections have been digitized and placed on the web.

The Holocaust Chronicle – Links page [holocaustchronicle.org]
Approximately 66 Holocaust-related Web sites arranged by type. Each site has been carefully examined and evaluated by the staff and administrators of holocaustchronicle.org. Below each URL are brief descriptive/evaluative remarks about the site followed by an abridgement of the link's own summation of its content. Some of the links at this site are also included in this guide.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
An international center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights. Includes the Museum of Tolerance Online Multimedia Learning Center, with text files, thousands of photos, virtual exhibits, teacher resources, and a site map that organizes the collections.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  

Witness to the Holocaust Project [Emory University]
Browse the Fred R. Crawford collection contents here to select from collected eye witness oral history transcripts from Holocaust survivors and camp liberators (pdf file format), documentation and analysis of the long-term effects of the Holocaust, or information on smaller camps and sub-camps about about which little was known. Ninety-three transcripts (60% of the total number) have been digitized (2000).