Integrated Studies 8: Modern Revolutions and Movements
This LibGuide will provide you with resources and links to help with your modern revolutions research. Start your research by typing the event into one of the research databases in the left hand column.
Here is a list of some modern day revolutions and movements:
Arab Spring
Gandhi and the Indian Independence
Hong Kong
Iraq (October Revolution)
Tiananmen Square
Chinese Communist Revolution
Syria
Women's Movement
LTGBQIA
Farm Workers and Union Labor Movement
Women's Movement
African American Civil Rights Movement
Black Lives Matter
South Africa (Apartheid)
Ukraine
Cuban Revolution 1953-1959
Cuban protests 2021
Iranian Revolution
Lebanon (October Revolution)
Eastern Europe 1989 (Velvet Revolution, Berlin Wall, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Czechoslovakia)
Northern Ireland (The Troubles 1968-1998)
Climate Change
Myanmar
Haitian protests 2018-2021
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Encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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This database is designed for high school students. It includes articles, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and images. You can download articles to Google Drive.
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This database provides full text resources for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. It also has thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary sources, maps, videos, and photos. You can download articles to Google Drive.
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This database has over 120,000 articles, 340,000, web links, and over 1,100 world newspapers in 73 languages representing 195 countries. It is available only at school.
This database includes full-text articles and images from more than 1,900 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, government documents, and educational weblinks.
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This database includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, a multimedia collection, and editor-selected websites.
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