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Includes the series The Cambridge History of China and The Cambridge History of Japan Includes such titles as Encyclopedia of Modern Asia and Encyclopedia of India
Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire. (Ref 915.173 At95) New York: Facts on File, 2004.
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Asian Reading Room - From the Library of Congress.
Country Studies: Asia - Reports for each Asian country. Check the dates for currency. From the Library of Congress.
Digital South Asia Library - Full text reference sources, e-journals, statistics, maps, and more!
Doctors Without Borders - Choose a country of interest in the drop-down menu to see a list of stories related to that country.
East and Southeast Asia: Net Resources - Annotated list of resources on East and Southeast Asia. Select History for links specific to this subject. You can also select a specific country.
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook - Debates on issues in history using articles, megasites, and other Web links. Organized into a general timeline. Includes both Chinese and Japanese history.
Mongols in World History focuses on curriculum materials on Asia, with information on art, culture, geoography, and literature. Topics include conquests, key figures, and much more.
Portal to Asian Internet Sources (PAIR): History An annotated list of sites relating to Asian history.
South Asian Studies Programme - From the University of Singapore, ongoing research in Asia.
Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library - A place to start research in this area-- contains links to bibliographies, videos, images, maps, encyclopedias, language dictionaries, instruction material and more.
China: A Provincial Atlas. (Ref Oversize 912.51 H859) New York: Macmillan, 1995.
China Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the People's Republic. (Ref 951.003 L9739) 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.
Chinese Communist Regime: Documents and Commentary. (2nd floor, 951.05 C420) New York: Praeger, 1967.
Chinese Politics: Documents and Analysis. (2nd floor 951.05 M992) Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 1986.
Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages - From 1949 to the present. Hosted by the International Institute of Social History. Originally created by Stefan Landsberger, a professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Council on East Asian Libraries includes links to the art, literature and culture of China.
History of China contains both text and graphics, has been created by Leon Poon at the University of Maryland.
Records of the Grand Historian of China. (2nd floor, 931 Ss71) New York: Columbia, 1961.
Robert Henry Chandless Photographs - Searchable collection of over 200 photographs of China in the early 1900's. From the University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections.
Sources of Chinese Tradition. (2nd floor 951 D350a) 2 vols. New York: Columbia, 1999.
Texts and Documents: China - Articles and texts compiled by Hanover College. Includes subjects on the language, religion, Great Wall, Forbidden City, and much more.
Tiananmen Square, 1989: Declassified History - Full text documents from the National Security Archive. It has additional information from the NSA here.
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization provides a history of Chinese civilization through images. Included are units on geography, archaeology, religion, graphic arts, calligraphy, military technology, painting, homes, gardens, and clothing.
Atomic Bomb: Decision contains full text of most of the important documents surrounding the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and later Nagasaki.
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. (Ref 952.003 B686) New York: Cambridge, 1993.
Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945. (Circ Desk, VHS S529) 1980.
Japanese History - gives a general overview from the early periods (300 BC) to the present day.
Japanese Digital Resources - From the Harvard Yenching Library.
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences. (2nd floor, 940.5352 Ik3) Stanford: Stanford University, 1967.
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. (Ref 952.003 K816) New York: Kodansha, 1983.
Pacific War Encyclopedia. (Ref 940.5426 D922) New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Rekishi Kaido a project of the Kansai Institute of Information Systems and a consortium of Japanese organizations. The history of Japan is explored using text and graphics to view monuments and theme sections of major historical regions of interest in Japan (e.g. Asuka, Nara and Kyoto).
Texts and Documents: Japan - Links to various texts and articles about Japanese history, including lists of emperors, overviews of Buddhism and Shinto, and studies on ancient Japan. From Hanover College.
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. [e-book]
My Lai Courts Martial 1970 - Background material (maps, biographies, etc.) and excerpts from trial transcripts.
Vietnam Conflict: An Academic Information Portal for Education and Research - Arranged by subject, such asProtestors and Conscientious Objectors, Soviets in Vietnam, and MIA
Vietnam War Bibliography - Arranged by subject, with topics such as Home Front, Public Opinion, Peace Movements andSouth Vietnam, Pacification. By Richard Jenson, a professor of history at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Vietnam War Bibliography - Arranged by subject, with topics such as Technology and Weapons, Air Force Operations, and the Draft.
Vietnam War - Arranged chronologically, maps relating to this war.
Vietnam War Declassification Project - Contains declassified primary documents from the National Security Advisor files. Examples include cables from Kissinger about the evacuation of Saigon, the Pentagon meeting of Richard Nixon relating to the returning of prisoners of war, and President Ford's meeting with congressmen about foreign aid.
Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 - Contains primary documents such as the Geneva Accords, Dulles's response, and Eisenhower's letter of support to Ngo Dinh Diem (1954). Discussions of key events, geography, bibliographies of writings, and much more. From Vassar.
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Chicago Manual of Style (Notes-Bibliography) - A guide from the SMC Library
Quick Guide to Chicago Style from the Chicago manual publishers.
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
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