The Contemporary World is the last of the chronological courses in the Integrative Studies Across Cultures program. It examines the twentieth and twenty-first century in which issues of continuity and change, order and fragmentation, and the problem of meaning are explored. The course draws from the academic fields of literature, psychology, genetics, music, history, sociology, phsyics, art, and political science.
Resources on this page include links to electronic encyclopedias, e-books, and more that will help you explore the contemporary world around us.
Online reference books are a great way to start your research project. You can get background information to develop your research topic.
Reference titles on the Contemporary World drawn from our Credo and Gale reference collections.
Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches by 
From Suffrage to Senate: America's Political Women by The following databases feature the most relevant scholarly content for the study of the contemporary world.