1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
2. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   
3. Age of Extremes
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
4. The American Heritage Picture History of World War II
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1966
   
5. Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian Armenians, this article revisits the causes of this genocide and recognizes its importance for understanding the present.
6. Bound By Power
   Intended Consequences
   Resource Type: Book
   These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
7. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
   A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2016
   An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
8. Canada's Century
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   
9. The Case for Grassroots Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
10. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    
11. The Course of Modern Jewish History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1958
    An acount of the Jews from the French revolution to the present day.
12. Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
13. Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
    A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Describes the effects of international debt on workers, the unemployed, and peasants who neither asked for or benefit from such debt. It describes the growing number of people's movements in Canada and developing nations who are struggling against austerity measures.
14. A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
    From 1900 to the Present Day
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    More than 2,500 entries, detailed yet concise, covering countries, individuals, political parties and movements, and events.
15. Eichmann in Jerusalem
    A report on the banality of evil
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
16. Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts I
    Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1950
    Band I enthalt folgende Kapitel: Die vierzehn "satten Jahre" 1900-1914; Der Traum vom Fliegen wurder Wirklichkeit; USA wurden Weltmacht; Technik nach 50 Jahren; Vom Zarenreich zur UdSSR; Das Unbekannte lockt; Glanz und Elend der k. und k. Monarchie; Die Erforschung des Lebendigen; Britische Cavalcade; Blick auf Frankreich; Die grun-weiss-rote Trikolore.
    
17. Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts II
    Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1950
    Der zweite Band enthalt folgende Kapitel: Weimarer Republik; Das Dritte Reich; ...die Folgen; Der Mensch in unserer Zeit; Zauberreich des Films; Symphonie des Sports.
    
18. Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts III
    Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1950
    Der dritte Band enthalt folgende Kapitel: Bildende Kunst; Literarische Halbzeit; Musik in funf Dezennien; Das Auto: Gefahrt des XX. Jahrhunderts; Briefmarken in funf Jahrzehnten; Die "kleinen Kriege" unseres Jahrhunderts; Kampf fur den Friende; Der Vatikan; Erster Weltkrieg 1914-1918; Zweiter Weldkrieg 1939-1945; Kophe der Nachkriegzeit; Personen-Bild-Register.
    
19. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
20. Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
21. "Greater Israel" in Real Life
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Book Review of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" by Max Blumenthal.
22. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
23. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
24. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
25. History Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to history in the Sources directory for the media.
26. The Holocaust Chronicle
    A History in Words and Pictures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
27. I May Be Some Time
    Ice and the English Imagination
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Spufford explores the British obsession with the world's coldest and bleakest climes, using their literary representation as his guide.
28. IBM and the Holocaust
    The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Nazi Germany employed IBM Hollerith punch-card machines to perform critical tasks in carrying out the Holocaust and the German war effort, cranking out lists of Jews which were then turned over to the SS for deportation and eventual extermination.
29. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
30. The Life of Bertrand Russell
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
31. The Making of the Modern World
    An Introductory History
    Resource Type: Book
    This book's global approach to world history puts the major political, economic and social transformations of the past hundred years into context. Focusing on the growth and transformation of capitalism as a world system, and its accompanying dialectic of uneven development, Dr. Robertson shows how the Western industrial powers and the underdeveloped Third World form a single continuum of change.
32. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
33. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
34. Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind
    Part Three of a Trilogy
    Resource Type: Book
    
35. Museum of the World and Image
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
36. Non-Alignment in the Age of Alignments
    Resource Type: Book
    This book makes clear the changing panorama of issues that has confronted the non-aligned states, and the diversity of viewpoints that has emerged among them. The authors have written what amounts to a history of the post-war world as experienced by Third World countries in their efforts to redefine the international political agenda.
37. 'October Song' - A challenging portrayal of the Russian Revolution
    Review of Paul Le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A review 'October Song,' Paul Le Blanc's book about the Russian revolution. Detailed with excerpts and criticism.
38. 150 Years of Photo Journalism
    150 Jahre Photojournalismus / 150 Jaar Fotojournalistiek - The Hulton Getty Picture Collection
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
39. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation, social and cultural events.
40. The Oxford History of Modern War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    The book is a military history, principally from the defeat of the Ottoman besiegers of Vienna in 1683.
41. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
42. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
43. The Penguin History of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
44. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
45. The Politics of Nonviolent Action
    Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
46. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
47. Progress and Barbarism
    The World in the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
48. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
49. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
50. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
51. Responsibility and Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    
52. Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
53. Rooms with a View of Russian Artistic History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Discussing the challenges for the small historic museums seeking to establish themselves in St. Petersburg.
54. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
55. The Seventh Decade
    The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    The Seventh Decade reveals many things. Amongst them is the history of global nuclear politics and the Bush government's policies that endanger the security of Americans and the world. Schell asserts that the Bush/ Cheney administration has forsaken traditional diplomacy and treaties that restrain nuclear proliferation preferring a first-strike military option. In so doing they have attacked Iraq using the excuse that they had WMD's, and have threatened North Korea and Iran with no results-North Korea now has the bomb and Iran is on the way. The administration has also encouraged the development of new generations of such weapons. He contends that the policies of the American government has intensified the trafficking of nuclear weapons which pose a renewed threat to humanity.
56. Sisters in the Resistance
    The Women's War to Free France
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Weitz documented accounts of 70 women involved in the Resistance.
57. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    
58. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
59. A Story from El Salvador: Julio Molina, Saving Historic Memory
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Julio Molina dedicates himself to preserving the "historic memory" of the generation that was involved in the 12-year civil war that took place in El Salvador from 1980 to 1992 between the rightwing government of the oligarchy and the revolutionaries of the FMLN. "We have many tasks today," he says, "but one of them is the preservation of the historic memory."
60. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
    Resource Type: Website
    The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
    
61. Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Underground to Palestine was written in the spring of 1946 when Stone was the first newspaper reporter to accompany survivors of the Holocaust on their epic clendestine journey to Palestine.
62. The Worst Journey in the World
    Antarctica 1910-1913
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1922
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir of his experiences in Antartica, his 'winter journey' across the Ross Ice Shelf to Cape Crozier, and his two southward trips - first in aid to Robert Scott's South Pole expedition, and second in search of that lost party.

Experts on History/Twentieth Century in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Encyclopedia
2. Deutsches Historisches Museum
3. Marxists Internet Archive
4. National Archives of the United States