Dictators Project

Books

• Search the Goodnow Library. Here is a sample search to get you started.
• Search the Minuteman Network. Here is a sample search to get you started. Books from outside Goodnow may take as much as week to ten days to arrive, and may not be able to be renewed.

Journals/Electronic Resources

• These resources will help you find chapters from books and articles from journals and magazines. Best of all, they're available to you 24/7 from your home computer, with your library card!

• If you have any trouble with the direct links to the individual resources, try our Online Resources page and scroll down to the resource you need.

• Biography In Context

  This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.  Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.  Also included in this resource is the the Complete Marquis Who's Who.  This massive database contains more than 990,000 thumbnail biographies from 20 respected Marquis sources.  Also includes Contemporary Authors.

   

• Expanded Academic ASAP

  From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.  Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images!

   

• General Reference Center Gold 

  Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

   

• Global Issues in Context 

  Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

   

• Opposing Viewpoints In Context 

   Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

• World History In Context 

    World History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

    

Webpages

• Absolute Power
• Dictator Watch
• Dictators of the 20th Century
• History's Worst Dictators
• How Dictators Work
• World's Statesmen
• World's Worst Dictators (InfoPlease)
• World's Worst Dictators (Parade)